The guys in the top five, they’re good everywhere. Me, I’m just almost one-dimensional.
DERRICK LEWISI don’t know how to do takedowns.
More Derrick Lewis Quotes
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I’m serious, I don’t stay in the gym each day like my opponents.
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I used to only train 30 minutes a day.
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You have 20 fights, you should know what it takes to get yourself ready. If you don’t feel like you’re ready, you let your coach know ‘hey we need to work on a little bit more of this.’
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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 think Cormier is gonna come out and try to wrestle me, try to get me tired, and try to push the pace. I know he might not say that I’m on his level but I think I am and he thinking that I’m not, really.
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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 even train for these fights. I’m not mad when people say that because it’s true.
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I just have a crazy sense of humor.
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I really don’t like watching women fights.
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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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The 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.
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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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The sport itself is dangerous. Anything can happen.
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I don’t care where I’m at in the heavyweight division. As long as I win enough, so they keep me. That’s about it.
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I don’t care if I am ever remembered in this sport for anything.
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