I don’t even train for these fights. I’m not mad when people say that because it’s true.
DERRICK LEWISThat’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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I know just about everything that really goes on with domestic violence.
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Basically, I guess they just thinking I’ve been winning my fights just by luck. I just think I’ve been winning my fights on heart.
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I’m serious, I don’t stay in the gym each day like my opponents.
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I hate being in boring fights. It frustrates me.
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I’ve been through so much stuff that I hope even my enemies wouldn’t have to go through.
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It’s a job to me, basically. I’m not trying to be the best fighter in the world or nothing like that. I don’t come in trying to think I am the best fighter. I don’t care about none of that. It’s just a job to me.
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It would be cool to let people know that it doesn’t matter what kind of background you have in your past, that you can still make something out of your life.
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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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I go in to fight just to fight. I don’t care about submissions, the technique and all of that.
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The guys in the top five, they’re good everywhere. Me, I’m just almost one-dimensional.
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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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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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I know I only need one punch to knock any guy out.
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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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I’ve been in that situation three or four times before where I’m losing the fight – the fight seems almost over with – and I knew I had to finish him and stop playing possum as much.
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