The best Quotes by Derrick Lewis

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.

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.

I know Cormier is a wrestler so you really got to get them hips down on him so I've been working them hips really good.

Everyone else is a mixed martial artist. I'm not a mixed martial artist, I'm a brawler.

I think Cormier is gonna come out and try to wrestle me, try to get me tired, and try to push the pace. I know he might not say that I'm on his level but I think I am and he thinking that I'm not, really.

Fighting's for grownups, and that's only if you got no other choice.

I do not wish to fight. But cast a stone into the lake, and the ripples will return to you.

Fighting is something the old me would do. That always made things worse.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.

Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but nonetheless doing it like you love it.

Everyone has a plan - 'til they get punched in the mouth.

You're not dreaming. The Butcher of Moscow gives humanitarian advice. He's got Ukrainian blood all over his hands, feet and head, and he dares to talk about protecting civilians.

I hope that the visit of Germany's president has only been postponed. I believe, Ukraine will have to keep building bridges towards Germany.

Once I am in the square circle, I am in my home.

Tough times do not last, tough people do.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, "Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

Boxing is the most beautiful thing after women.

The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.

I'm not interested in being a superstar, or famous, I'm a fighting man and only interested in smashing your face in.

I'm a gypsy: no education, no schooling, nothing. I don't care what people think of me. I don't care about being a hero, a role model, a champion.

Can we really trust people who aren't ticklish?

"I'm your mother and I order you to stop buying NFTs!"

- my drunk mother

Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.

We're all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.

Do I think I'm ready for a world title this year? Hell, yes!

I wanted to say something to the Mayweather camp that keeps running their mouth, man. Don't worry - you get your fights up and I will whoop your ass anywhere!

We're one in one, we both T-KO'd each other, so we probably have to do it again, right?

I can be the nice family man at home, and then when I go to the gym, maybe sparring with someone, I switch into beast mode. It ain't pretty.

In boxing, it is about the obsession of getting the most from yourself: wanting to dominate the world like a hungry young lion.

I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young.

I'm always focused.

I was born a leader, never a follower. I never felt peer pressure. If the group goes left, I go right.

When one guy is doing good, it makes all the others want to achieve greatness.

All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.

I remember as a little boy I ate one meal a day and sometimes slept in the street. I will never forget that and it inspires me to fight hard, stay strong and remember all the people of my country, trying to achieve better for themselves.

I don't think about the negative in my life. I just think about the positives.

I'm the bad guy of the division.

A hero is someone right who doesn't change.

That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's back. If it's not positive, I didn't hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy.

One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other one is me.