Top 89 Quotes & Sayings by Derrick Lewis - Page 2

I'll fight anyone.

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.

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

I just have a crazy sense of humor.

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

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.

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

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.

My goal is just to make as much money as I can in the sport, and that's it.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

The sport itself is dangerous. Anything can happen.

I don't fight just because I love it just that much. I'm fighting because it's a job for me.

I hate being in boring fights. It frustrates me.

This heavyweight division, it takes just one punch for anyone. It doesn't matter how hard you train or what.

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.

Whatever the UFC wants to pay me for, that's fine.

I don't train like a mixed martial artist. I don't respect the sport like everyone else does.

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.

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.

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.

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

I know I'm the least technical guy in the sport. Most of the champions or guys at the top are real martial artists.

I've been in that situation many times before - where I'm losing and I have to knock a guy out.