As long as they pay me good, that’s all I care about.
DERRICK LEWIS
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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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As long as they pay me good, that’s all I care about.
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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’m not scared to fight anyone, I’ll call anyone out.
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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 have 20 fights, you should know what it takes to get yourself ready. If you don’t feel like you’re ready, you let your coach know ‘hey we need to work on a little bit more of this.’
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I just have a crazy sense of humor.
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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 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’ve been in deep waters a bunch of times in my fights.
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Like a lot of people have said, it’s not a bad loss to lose to Mark Hunt, so it’s really like a learning lesson.
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I believe the tough fights bring out the better fighter in myself.
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This heavyweight division, it takes just one punch for anyone. It doesn’t matter how hard you train or what.
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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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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 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 know Cormier is a wrestler so you really got to get them hips down on him so I’ve been working them hips really good.
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