I just believe that my heart is the best in the sport. And I believe that’s what carried me through my whole career. Not my talent or my power or anything like that. I just believe my heart.
DERRICK LEWISBowing and showing respect – I don’t give nothing about none of that. I’m just coming in and fighting.
More Derrick Lewis Quotes
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If I’m the champion, the whole UFC division should be ashamed of themselves for a guy that had no damn skills being the champion. They should all just go relocate somewhere.
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I know just about everything that really goes on with domestic violence.
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The guys in the top five, they’re good everywhere. Me, I’m just almost one-dimensional.
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I’m just going to keep fighting, try to stay active as much as possible.
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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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Whatever the UFC wants to pay me for, that’s fine.
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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 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 care what people think.
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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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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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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 serious, I don’t stay in the gym each day like my opponents.
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I really don’t like watching women fights.
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