Derrick Lewis Quotes

No, I'm not going to retire. Not going anywhere. I'm focused on the UFC. It's the biggest stage.

I love fighting for the UFC. It's an amazing company. I've done a lot of great things, and they've done a lot of great things for my career.

What's important is to be fighting in the UFC. It doesn't matter if it's the first or last show.

I grew up in front of everyone's eyes in the UFC.

I won a lot of money in UFC. I earned that money. The money wasn't given to me as a present. I earned every dollar of it.

When I first started, I lived in Vegas because I was fighting in the UFC, and I was still fighting after the UFC.

Fighting in the UFC means that I'm at the top of the sport, and it means that I'm able to pursue my goal of being a champion in the UFC.

Everyone wants to be UFC champion, and that's my goal and my dream.

As the UFC was getting bigger and bigger, I realized it was a potential career there, and that's what I did.

Being in UFC is a great promotion for me because I have more fans from all over Australia.

I've been in martial arts for so many years, so to hold the belt of UFC and be on top of the biggest organization, it will be represented in this belt.

If I get the boot out of the UFC, I'll still continue to fight.

Fighters find it hard to give up doing what they do best - fighting for a living.

My whole career, I've been fighting wrestlers. If you look back, all of my fights have been against wrestlers.

People haven't seen the wars, in UFC, that I've had in Strikeforce and what I am capable of.

Really, it was either fight in the UFC or fight in the WWE. There wasn't the option of both. That was a key factor. What am I going to do? I didn't want to juggle two careers anyway.

I watched the UFC way back in the day, before there were time limits. I always knew it's what I wanted to do some day.

The UFC has been very good to me, man.

My goal is to be UFC champion, and my eyes are on that prize.

I'm not going all the way; I'm going to be the best fighter that's ever fought in MMA. That's what I truly believe.

If you want to fight in the UFC, you've got to realize that you are just an elephant in the circus. As soon as you ask for more peanuts, you have to go find a different circus.

UFC, take me off your list. Take me off your Hall of Fame.

Once I started fighting in UFC, things took a big U-turn. After my second fight, I came home and paid my mortgage off.

One of my proudest moments is definitely UFC 105 in Manchester when I stopped Denis Kang in the second round.

I'm always watching every featherweight that fights in the UFC because we can eventually fight in the future.