The one thing about me, if it is a 15-minute fight, I’m fighting every one of them 15 minutes. And if it’s a 25-minute fight, I’ll be fighting all 25 until the bell rings.
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.
More Derrick Lewis Quotes
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I’ll fight anyone.
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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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I just have a crazy sense of humor.
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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 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’ve been in that situation many times before – where I’m losing and I have to knock a guy out.
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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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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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You’ve really got to stay ready 24/7. You really can’t get ready because there’s no telling. They’ll call you short notice to fight anyone so you really have to stay ready.
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You know, once you have the belt you want to be less active, fighting once a year.
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I believe the tough fights bring out the better fighter in myself.
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I don’t want to fight once a year. I like fighting every other month.
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I just really want to put the past behind me, because it makes me angry thinking about it. But it’s also the reason I’ve made it this far in my career. It’s like, built up in me. It’s what I think about when I fight. My childhood.
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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 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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