Derrick Lewis

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

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. ”

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. ”

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

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 look at all my opponents, and they could be something else. They could go out and get a normal, regular job. I look at myself and I can't do that. I have a strike on my back. I can't have a normal job. So, I've got to fight for everything I've got. ”

It's a job to me, basically. I'm not trying to be the best fighter in the world or nothing like that. I don't come in trying to think I am the best fighter. I don't care about none of that. It's just a job to me. ”

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

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. ”

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