Derrick Lewis Quotes

I lost my first professional fight, but came back and won fights until I fought for the world title.

You win some, you lose some. You get hit you don't get hit, but it's not about how hard you get hit. I think it's about how hard you get hit, then still get up and deliver an even harder punch. I think that's what it is all about.

It is important when you are losing to come back and not get beat.

It's always discouraging to lose. You look at it and think, 'Man, what's going on?' It's always discouraging. But I'm a fighter. I don't like to quit.

This is Liverpool, we will always come back when it's tough.

I've been in that situation many times before - where I'm losing and I have to knock a guy out.

I remember when Muhammad Ali got beaten the first time. I remember when Lennox Lewis got beaten the first time, Sugar Ray Leonard, Mike Tyson. All of those were legendary fighters, and they came back, and that's what made them different - what they did after they got beat.

I got knocked down, I don't know how many years ago and I haven't been off my feet since, and I responded again against the best in division without the respect of having the chin I'm supposed to have.

The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.

We knew what we were up against, but we were going to go down fighting. Hopefully people back home remember that we got this far. We've got nothing to be ashamed about.

We may have limped onto Broadway as the underdogs, but underdogs bite back occasionally.

I'm going to go down swinging... I'm sure as heck not going to go home and say I had a bad tournament.

Every time I've failed, people had me out for the count, but I always come back.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

You can be knocked down, but it doesn't mean you're out.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.

One thing about championship teams is that they're resilient. No matter what is thrown at them, no matter how deep the hole, they find a way to bounce back and overcome adversity.

I've been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history.

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

When times are tough I am not one for just throwing the towel in.

My dad was the way he was, but he also gave me a motto: never say die. Just to keep pushing and pushing, fighting until the end. He put it in my head that you're always going to fight, and you're always going to beat them.

One thing I have learned from Johnny Faulk, Texas, and life, is that since you don't always win, you got to learn to enjoy just fightin' the good fight.

You can't let injuries dictate the outcome of a football game. You have to persevere and keep fighting. That is how we are. If there is a blade of grass to defend or take, we do it.

I know that there is failure, but if you're prepared, you can accept whatever happens in the ring.