I used to only train 30 minutes a day.
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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My goal is just to make as much money as I can in the sport, and that’s it.
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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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You’ve got to try to find some type of mental edge on your opponent.
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I don’t care where I’m at in the heavyweight division. As long as I win enough, so they keep me. That’s about it.
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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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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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Basically, I guess they just thinking I’ve been winning my fights just by luck. I just think I’ve been winning my fights on heart.
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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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Whatever the UFC wants to pay me for, that’s fine.
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I’ve been through so much stuff that I hope even my enemies wouldn’t have to go through.
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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’m serious, I don’t stay in the gym each day like my opponents.
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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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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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You eat salad and you’re hungry the next 30 minutes and you’re hungrier from when you ate the damn salad.
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