My goal is just to make as much money as I can in the sport, and that's it.
I go into every fight with a bad back and overweight and a damn-near diabetic.
Bowing and showing respect - I don't give nothing about none of that. I'm just coming in and fighting.
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.
It's all the stuff I've been through in my life. From family struggles, people doubting me, things I went through as a child and going to prison, they all played a factor in who I am today. It really made me a better person. Going through those situations can make or break you as a human being.
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.
George Foreman acts more like my grandfather. He and my grandfather act just alike - they're both Christian type guys. They try to help everyone.
I hate being in boring fights. It frustrates me.
You eat salad and you're hungry the next 30 minutes and you're hungrier from when you ate the damn salad.
I made my third parole and I believe if I had made it the first time, I wouldn't be here today. I still would've been out there doing stupid stuff.
I throw so hard because I sit and wait for that perfect moment.
I go in to fight just to fight. I don't care about submissions, the technique and all of that.
