Derrick Lewis

“I like to fight tough fights.”

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

“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.”

“It would be cool to let people know that it doesn't matter what kind of background you have in your past, that you can still make something out of your life.”

“I speak my mind too much, and the UFC probably don't really like that. But I really don't care.”

“I ain't trying to fight for no title.”

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

“I know I only need one punch to knock any guy out.”

“It's like I say all the time, it's the heavyweight division. It doesn't matter if the guys a black belt or if he's a world-class boxer. We still have a 50-50 chance.”

“That's usually the way I am - I don't care what my opponent can do. I just focus on myself.”

“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.”

“I just have a crazy sense of humor.”

“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'll fight anyone.”

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

“I don't care what people think.”

“I set some goals for myself. I really want to run through this whole heavyweight division.”

“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 don't want to fight once a year. I like fighting every other month.”

“I hate being in boring fights. It frustrates me.”