I just have a crazy sense of humor.
DERRICK LEWISI grew up watching my mom and my stepdad fight.
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I’m just going to keep fighting, try to stay active as much as possible.
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I know I’m the least technical guy in the sport. Most of the champions or guys at the top are real martial artists.
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All of my fights, especially all of my UFC fights my whole career, I’ve never been in there without any kind of impingement and pain wrong with my back.
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I really don’t punch with my left hand anyways.
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There’s nothing I really want to accomplish. I already set my family up pretty good right now.
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I really don’t like watching women fights.
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I go in to fight just to fight. I don’t care about submissions, the technique and all of that.
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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 look at all my opponents, and they could be something else. They could go out and get a normal, regular job. I look at myself and I can’t do that. I have a strike on my back. I can’t have a normal job. So, I’ve got to fight for everything I’ve got.
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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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That’s what really gets me going, thinking about my past. I think about all the tough times and bad times I’ve had in my life and I bring all that into the Octagon. That’s only because it’s hard going in there trying to fight someone who didn’t do anything to you.
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Whatever the UFC wants to pay me for, that’s fine.
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My heart outweighs all the talent. If they’ve got more talent, I believe that my heart will still overcome that. You’ve got to have heart to step inside the octagon anyway.
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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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It’s like I say all the time, it’s the heavyweight division. It doesn’t matter if the guys a black belt or if he’s a world-class boxer. We still have a 50-50 chance.
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