I ain’t trying to fight for no title.
DERRICK LEWISYou know, once you have the belt you want to be less active, fighting once a year.
More Derrick Lewis Quotes
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It’s like I say all the time, it’s the heavyweight division. It doesn’t matter if the guys a black belt or if he’s a world-class boxer. We still have a 50-50 chance.
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I have a couple of properties. Bought some houses and just rent them out.
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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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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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You’ve got to try to find some type of mental edge on your opponent.
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I’ve been in deep waters a bunch of times in my fights.
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I know I’m the least technical guy in the sport. Most of the champions or guys at the top are real martial artists.
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I don’t know how to do takedowns.
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I grew up watching my mom and my stepdad fight.
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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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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 look at all my opponents, and they could be something else. They could go out and get a normal, regular job. I look at myself and I can’t do that. I have a strike on my back. I can’t have a normal job. So, I’ve got to fight for everything I’ve got.
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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 know just about everything that really goes on with domestic violence.
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I just like being in fun fights.
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