I set some goals for myself. I really want to run through this whole heavyweight division.
DERRICK LEWISI don’t care if I ever fight for the belt or get the belt.
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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 don’t train like a mixed martial artist. I don’t respect the sport like everyone else does.
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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 made my third parole and I believe if I had made it the first time, I wouldn’t be here today. I still would’ve been out there doing stupid stuff.
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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 many times before – where I’m losing and I have to knock a guy out.
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I’ve been having people doubt me all my life.
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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 just have a crazy sense of humor.
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I ain’t trying to fight for no title.
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As long as they pay me good, that’s all I care about.
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I’m fighting just so I can take care of my family.
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I just believe that my heart is the best in the sport. And I believe that’s what carried me through my whole career. Not my talent or my power or anything like that. I just believe my heart.
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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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Like a lot of people have said, it’s not a bad loss to lose to Mark Hunt, so it’s really like a learning lesson.
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