I’ve been in that situation many times before – where I’m losing and I have to knock a guy out.
DERRICK LEWISIf I was really trying to be the best fighter in the world, I would be in the best shape and taking it more serious but I’m not.
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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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I go into every fight with a bad back and overweight and a damn-near diabetic.
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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 know I only need one punch to knock any guy out.
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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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If I’m the champion, the whole UFC division should be ashamed of themselves for a guy that had no damn skills being the champion. They should all just go relocate somewhere.
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I don’t know how to do takedowns.
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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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I’ll fight anyone.
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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 used to only train 30 minutes a day.
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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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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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Bowing and showing respect – I don’t give nothing about none of that. I’m just coming in and fighting.
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My goal is just to make as much money as I can in the sport, and that’s it.
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