I go into every fight with a bad back and overweight and a damn-near diabetic.
DERRICK LEWISAll 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’ve been in that situation many times before – where I’m losing and I have to knock a guy out.
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Bowing and showing respect – I don’t give nothing about none of that. I’m just coming in and fighting.
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I speak my mind too much, and the UFC probably don’t really like that. But I really don’t care.
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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 believe the tough fights bring out the better fighter in myself.
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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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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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Everyone else is a mixed martial artist. I’m not a mixed martial artist, I’m a brawler.
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I set some goals for myself. I really want to run through this whole heavyweight division.
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I’m an optimistic guy.
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I don’t fight just because I love it just that much. I’m fighting because it’s a job for me.
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I tell people all the time that it would be good if they forget about me next week, that they don’t even mention my name anymore.
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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 throw so hard because I sit and wait for that perfect moment.
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I’ve been in deep waters a bunch of times in my fights.
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