Derrick Lewis Quotes

Derrick Lewis

Profession : Athlete

Birth : February 7, 1985

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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I'll fight anyone.

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The sport itself is dangerous. Anything can happen.

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Travis Browne don't know what's he thinking. Travis, he's out there, man. That guy has been knocked out so many times, he's been rocked so many times, he don't know what to say.

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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 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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George Foreman acts more like my grandfather. He and my grandfather act just alike - they're both Christian type guys. They try to help everyone.

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Brock Lesnar is not a fighter. He's scared to be hit.

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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.

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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'm fighting just so I can take care of my family.

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I'm serious, I don't stay in the gym each day like my opponents.

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I go into every fight with a bad back and overweight and a damn-near diabetic.

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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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I'm not scared to fight anyone, I'll call anyone out.

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At first, whenever I first got into the UFC, I was like, 'oh my God, I'm in the UFC.' When you come from where I came from, being in the UFC basically meant I was on top of the world.

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Bowing and showing respect - I don't give nothing about none of that. I'm just coming in and fighting.

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I go in to fight just to fight. I don't care about submissions, the technique and all of that.

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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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In 2010, Strikeforce came to Houston, and DC was something like 5-0 or 6-0, and I'd seen him at the expo. I seen him walking around and I seen he had a pink cast on his hand, and I was like, this guy is way too fat... because he looked shorter and fatter. Because back then I was slim, I was like 235. So, I was like, man, I could take this guy.

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