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.
DERRICK LEWISI really don’t like watching women fights.
More Derrick Lewis Quotes
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I’m serious, I don’t stay in the gym each day like my opponents.
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Everyone else is a mixed martial artist. I’m not a mixed martial artist, I’m a brawler.
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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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Whatever the UFC wants to pay me for, that’s fine.
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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’ll fight anyone.
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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.
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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 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 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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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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That would be great if I could be a role model or inspiration to those who have been in my shoes before.
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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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This heavyweight division, it takes just one punch for anyone. It doesn’t matter how hard you train or what.
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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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