I set some goals for myself. I really want to run through this whole heavyweight division.
DERRICK LEWISI know I only need one punch to knock any guy out.
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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 don’t care if I ever fight for the belt or get the belt.
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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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As long as they pay me good, that’s all I care about.
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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 hate being in boring fights. It frustrates me.
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That’s usually the way I am – I don’t care what my opponent can do. I just focus on myself.
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I wanted to start in boxing, but you have to train a little harder to be a boxer. A lot of those guys can take punches. MMA, you only have to hit someone so hard to knock them out.
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I’ve been in deep waters a bunch of times in my fights.
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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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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 don’t know how to do takedowns.
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I don’t want to fight once a year. I like fighting every other month.
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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’ve been through so much stuff that I hope even my enemies wouldn’t have to go through.
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