Derrick Lewis

I believe I get the belt then I'll get the money. I'm not trying to be the best fighter in the world. It's all about the cheddar.

I just feel that all the top fighters in the world are making all the money.

The only reason I want to climb up the rankings - beating the champion and beating guys in the top five - those are the guys that get the endorsements and get the most money and get paid the most. That's the only reason why.

I hate being in boring fights. It frustrates me.

I just like being in fun fights.

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.

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.

The guys in the top five, they're good everywhere. Me, I'm just almost one-dimensional.

I don't care if I am ever remembered in this sport for anything.

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