I know I only need one punch to knock any guy out.
DERRICK LEWISThe only reason I want to climb up the rankings – beating the champion and beating guys in the top five – those are the guys that get the endorsements and get the most money and get paid the most. That’s the only reason why.
More Derrick Lewis Quotes
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My goal is just to make as much money as I can in the sport, and that’s it.
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The one thing about me, if it is a 15-minute fight, I’m fighting every one of them 15 minutes. And if it’s a 25-minute fight, I’ll be fighting all 25 until the bell rings.
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I’ve been in that situation many times before – where I’m losing and I have to knock a guy out.
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Everyone else is a mixed martial artist. I’m not a mixed martial artist, I’m a brawler.
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I gotta work on my overall game.
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You know, once you have the belt you want to be less active, fighting once a year.
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I’m just going to keep fighting, try to stay active as much as possible.
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I have a lot of anger built up in me from my childhood. My wife and kids are the only ones who give me peace in this world.
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A lot of people said I would never make it, and this and that, I’d never be a top 10 fighter, that I’d never fight for a title. Just stuff like that. Achieving all those goals and being the person that I am, this is going against everything everyone said I couldn’t do.
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I don’t even train for these fights. I’m not mad when people say that because it’s true.
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George Foreman acts more like my grandfather. He and my grandfather act just alike – they’re both Christian type guys. They try to help everyone.
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I always had dreamed one day Bruce Buffer’s going to be introducing me. Derrick ‘The Black Beast’ Lewis and I just always pictured him saying it.
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You eat salad and you’re hungry the next 30 minutes and you’re hungrier from when you ate the damn salad.
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I grew up watching my mom and my stepdad fight.
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I’m serious, I don’t stay in the gym each day like my opponents.
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