The guys in the top five, they’re good everywhere. Me, I’m just almost one-dimensional.
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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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 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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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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It’s all the stuff I’ve been through in my life. From family struggles, people doubting me, things I went through as a child and going to prison, they all played a factor in who I am today. It really made me a better person. Going through those situations can make or break you as a human being.
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The sport itself is dangerous. Anything can happen.
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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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I’m an optimistic guy.
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I believe the tough fights bring out the better fighter in myself.
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I don’t care if I ever fight for the belt or get the belt.
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Basically, I guess they just thinking I’ve been winning my fights just by luck. I just think I’ve been winning my fights on heart.
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I really don’t like watching women fights.
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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 go in to fight just to fight. I don’t care about submissions, the technique and all of that.
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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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There’s nothing I really want to accomplish. I already set my family up pretty good right now.
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