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The Rise to UFC Glory: Michael Chandler’s Story Against All Odds · Motivation Mindset Podcast

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Speaker 1: Every fight. He's in his due time.
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Speaker 2: Right now Chandlers.
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Speaker 3: Someone now fear.
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Speaker 4: Michael Chandler's fighting so fucking chaos.
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Speaker 3: That guy has a warrior spirit.
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Speaker 5: Crazy fucking crazy, m.
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Speaker 3: Michael.
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Speaker 4: Patience is so important, And yes, you're not where you
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Speaker 4: want to be today, but you have to have the
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Speaker 4: confident expectancy that's somewhere down the road. If you keep
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Speaker 4: doing the right things and you keep holding yourself to
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Speaker 4: that standard, you're going to blossom into that man or
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Speaker 4: woman that you need to be. Extreme patience of patients
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Speaker 4: that a lot of people question.
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Speaker 6: That's number one ranges.
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Speaker 4: Oh my name is Michael Chandler, and if you have
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Speaker 4: heard nothing about me, I have no idea who I am.
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Speaker 4: I was just a little guy from a little town
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Speaker 4: who was taught to do little things, who became well
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Speaker 4: versed in hand to hand combat, first in wrestling, and
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Speaker 4: then tried mixed martial arts in two thousand and nine,
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Speaker 4: and I've been trying mixed martial arts at a very
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Speaker 4: high level since then for sixteen years. You know, I'm
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Speaker 4: from a small town outside of Saint Louis, Missouri. It
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Speaker 4: was a little bit more, but wasn't wasn't like a
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Speaker 4: farming community. It wasn't you know, in the States we
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Speaker 4: call it a one stop signed town or a one
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Speaker 4: traffic light town. It wasn't one of those, but it
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Speaker 4: was small enough that we all stayed within our little bubble.
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Speaker 4: High school was right down the road ten minutes. As
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Speaker 4: a kid, you're trying to figure out what life is,
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Speaker 4: and all I knew life was was adults work and
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Speaker 4: that's what they have to do, and they were trying
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Speaker 4: their best. They never complained. It was one thing about
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Speaker 4: my parents. They never complained. They would work. They would
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Speaker 4: work two and three jobs all the time. My dad
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Speaker 4: would would take side jobs. He would call him where
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Speaker 4: he would have he'd have his normal job as a carpenter,
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Speaker 4: but then he would also take side jobs on the weekend.
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Speaker 4: It was just constantly scraping and calling to try to
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Speaker 4: bring more money into the family to put food on
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Speaker 4: the table for three growing boys. And I remember looking
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Speaker 4: at the options and I thought, well, bellator is more
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Speaker 4: like wrestling because it's a tournament. You know, you you
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Speaker 4: win a couple of fights, then you get in the tournament,
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Speaker 4: and when you get in the tournament, it's fight after
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Speaker 4: fight after fight to get to the championship fight and
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Speaker 4: then you can win the belt.
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Speaker 7: Originally from hot Ridge, Missouri.
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Speaker 3: Fights Long.
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Speaker 8: Some to.
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Speaker 6: You, Some to.
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Speaker 4: You, six hundred and eighty eight days when I, you know,
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Speaker 4: I lost my first fight. I think I was twelve
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Speaker 4: to zero, and then lost the next two fights after that.
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Speaker 4: As soon as I lost that first fight, I immediately
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Speaker 4: went into a downward spiral completely seems like it's crashing
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Speaker 4: and burning right now. So there was all those fears
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Speaker 4: and doubts and insecurities that I was having to deal with.
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Speaker 4: So I think that was the because you lose one fight,
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Speaker 4: no big deal, get back on the winning track. You're good,
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Speaker 4: because that was my first experience in the sport of wrestling.
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Speaker 4: You could lose a wrestling match on Wednesday, but by Saturday,
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Speaker 4: you get another opportunity to go get back into the
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Speaker 4: wind column. Maybe you lose two in a row, no
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Speaker 4: big deal. The following Tuesday you get another opportunity. Boom,
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Speaker 4: You're back on the winning track. Mixed martial arts, you've
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Speaker 4: got four or five six months in between fights, And
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Speaker 4: that's a lot of days, it's a lot of practices,
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Speaker 4: it's a lot of self deprecating thoughts, it's a lot
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Speaker 4: of idleness, it's a lot of self doubt. Like the
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Speaker 4: first biggest mistake I made, too was the it's like
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Speaker 4: skill amnesia, you know, It's like I completely forgot how
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Speaker 4: good I was. You know, I went from NonStop smashing
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Speaker 4: people twelve and zero to immediately lose my first fight.
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Speaker 4: I wake up the next morning and I feel like
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Speaker 4: I've lost all my speed, all my power, all my technique,
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Speaker 4: all my talents, when really I was just as talented
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Speaker 4: after that loss as I was right before the loss.
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Speaker 4: It was just my perception of my mindset, of my
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Speaker 4: skill set, and how good I was, or how good
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Speaker 4: I wasn't right. That was when that little guy from
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Speaker 4: that little town who was taught to do little things,
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Speaker 4: who had been so prevalent and so loud in high
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Speaker 4: school and so prevalent and so loud in college, but
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Speaker 4: then he was just kind of taking a nap or
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Speaker 4: almost waiting, dormant, almost just sitting there behind a corner,
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Speaker 4: just waiting to pounce and waiting to strike. For when
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Speaker 4: I had that first setback to finally grab his megaphone
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Speaker 4: and say, I told you the media was right. I
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Speaker 4: told you the naysayers were right. I told you you
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Speaker 4: were a flash in the pan. I told you that
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Speaker 4: you weren't supposed to be here. I told you that
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Speaker 4: you've been a fraud and a fake and a phony.
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Speaker 4: And you're not this good. You're not supposed to be
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Speaker 4: out there in the light. You're not supposed to be
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Speaker 4: an example. You're not supposed to be a role model.
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Speaker 4: You're not supposed to be a mentor. You're not supposed
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Speaker 4: to be rich and famous and on a platform and
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Speaker 4: all of these different things. Come back here where it's comfortable.
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Speaker 4: Because this jail cell that we sit in, this jail
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Speaker 4: cell of self loathing and the jail cell of self
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Speaker 4: pity and the jail cell of mediocre and knowing you
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Speaker 4: aren't even coming close to scratching the surface of your
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Speaker 4: human potential. Yeah it's painful, and yeah it's less than
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Speaker 4: you deserve, but it sure is comfortable. Come back here
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Speaker 4: and lay on this lay on this dingy, little hard
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Speaker 4: cold cot with me in this jail cell. And that's
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Speaker 4: right where I fell. Luckily we came out of it.
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Speaker 4: I had the keys in my hand the whole time.
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Speaker 4: That's the beautiful thing. There's a song by NF called Outcasts,
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Speaker 4: and he said, woke up? Where am I at? I'm
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Speaker 4: in a jail cell. The door's locked, but the keys
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Speaker 4: are in my hand. And that's how the self image
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Speaker 4: and the self deprecating thoughts are is. You have the
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Speaker 4: keys in your hand, you just haven't taken the steps
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Speaker 4: necessary to stick that key in the keyhole and unlock
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Speaker 4: that door to go be free from it. You want
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Speaker 4: to talk about taking chances. I booked a flight to
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Speaker 4: Las Vegas that with zero meeting schedule with the UFC,
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Speaker 4: you need to go to Vegas. And I don't care
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Speaker 4: if you go to Vegas and you have to wait
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Speaker 4: there for three weeks or stand out in front of
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Speaker 4: the UFC headquarters with the boombox like that one movie,
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Speaker 4: whatever it is. Don't come back unless you get an answer,
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Speaker 4: because you deserve an answer. We end up getting the
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Speaker 4: meeting and I go sit down with Hunter Campbell and
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Speaker 4: we have this really great conversation and across the table
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Speaker 4: just like this, and I said, Hunter, I don't want
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Speaker 4: to come into the UFC and beat around the bush.
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Speaker 4: I don't want to take any tune up fights. I
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Speaker 4: want to get thrown into the lions den right away.
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Speaker 4: Either I am who I say I am or I'm not.
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Speaker 4: And I'm okay living with the answer to that question
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Speaker 4: that I'm not who I thought I was. I'm not
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Speaker 4: as good as I thought I was. I'm okay with
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Speaker 4: at least going to answer that question, but I need
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Speaker 4: that question to be answered. So I want to fight
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Speaker 4: the top guys right away. And Pourier was asked, he
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Speaker 4: turned it down. Ferguson was asked, they turned it down.
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Speaker 4: Dan Hooker was asked and he said yes. And that's
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Speaker 4: when I made my debut against the number five guy
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Speaker 4: in the world. Had just spent twenty five minutes with
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Speaker 4: Dustin Poorier, who was the number two guy in the world.
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Speaker 4: It was fight of the night. He had his moments
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Speaker 4: where people thought he was gonna beat Dustin Pourier. And
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Speaker 4: then I made my debut in January of twenty twenty
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Speaker 4: one on the Connor McGregor versus Dustin Pourier to fight
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Speaker 4: Card and Abu Dhabi during COVID knocked out Dan Hooker
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Speaker 4: in two and a half minutes, did a backflip ripped
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Speaker 4: off a promo, and all of a sudden a star
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Speaker 4: was born.
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Speaker 9: Your she in the fiercest battle lot of things, you
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Speaker 9: from all these arrow was in the side. I will
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Speaker 9: well keep you from zangel yv.
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Speaker 10: She yeah, oh yeah, yeah, oh it's just shoot me
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Speaker 10: in the eye. We stuck together. We two piece in
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Speaker 10: the part and get dout the bad hand.
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Speaker 4: I'm there season.
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Speaker 10: The cards will never be separated till we see in
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Speaker 10: the guards.
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Speaker 7: We've been long together high forever.
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Speaker 10: Long as we go together with doubt will never be
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Speaker 10: your light. Couldn't let the darts tryever shooting my word,
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Speaker 10: you allow to number. And when the world gets a
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Speaker 10: little too hard, whip your eyes, put away your sorrow.
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Speaker 10: When the swell, I'll be leading the charge and I'll
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Speaker 10: be still fighting.
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Speaker 1: For you tomorrow.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 10: He been with a blindfolder and different time zones. Could
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Speaker 10: find my way to you with my eyes closed, ask
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Speaker 10: nothing between us. Go to bars and being a stand
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Speaker 10: in front of every one of them, watched they slimming.
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Speaker 3: And beau danger.
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Speaker 2: See you.
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Speaker 4: But uh, you know here we are gotta bust it
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Speaker 4: up by and another loss on my record. But hey,
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Speaker 4: I've come back from I've come back from worse those
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Speaker 4: every young man falls it, but every young man gets
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Speaker 4: back up, and the sum will rise tomorrow. And when
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Speaker 4: I fly home without the belt, we got some explaining
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Speaker 4: to do, but we're going to figure it out.
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Speaker 1: You may be.
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Speaker 3: H five.
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Speaker 8: In all reality, nobody really knows if they're the hardest worker.
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Speaker 8: Nobody really knows if they're putting in more hours and
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Speaker 8: more time than everyone else, except for anecdotal evidence of
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Speaker 8: the people that you are around. So when I know
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Speaker 8: or I say, I know, I'm more disciplined and work
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Speaker 8: harder than anybody else in the sport. That's my anecdotal
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Speaker 8: experience of being around guys at the highest level, guys
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Speaker 8: that are world champions, Guys that have won world titles,
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Speaker 8: Guys who are fought full world titles, Guys who are
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Speaker 8: in the top five, top ten in the entire world,
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Speaker 8: in the UFC and all of our organizations around the world.
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Speaker 4: If you do the work of a champion, you have
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Speaker 4: the discipline of a champion, and you put the reps
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Speaker 4: in like a champion, and you do all the physical
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Speaker 4: things like a champion, and you make the sacrifices like
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Speaker 4: a champion, But you don't truly believe that you're a champion.
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Speaker 4: You're going to find success every now and then, and
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Speaker 4: you're going to perform at a high level sometimes or
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Speaker 4: maybe even often, but you'll never be able to consistently
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Speaker 4: perform in that manner if you don't truly see yourself
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Speaker 4: as a champion.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, these are just some awards and sentimental things.
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Speaker 4: We're in my podcast studio, so where we film a
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Speaker 4: lot of content and try to create value. But we
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Speaker 4: got Debut of the Year my first fight in the
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Speaker 4: UFC against Dan Hooker, Fight of the Year twenty twenty
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Speaker 4: one against Justin Gatsche at Madison Square Garden.
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Speaker 1: We got a copy of my favorite book.
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Speaker 6: By James Allen, as a Man Thinketh shout out to
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Speaker 6: the UK. This is the flag that I've worn around
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Speaker 6: my shoulders when I've walked to the octagon numerous times.
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Speaker 6: So we keep that folded up, keep it in the studio.
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Speaker 6: And this was a gift from I believe from MSG.
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Speaker 6: This was from UFC two eighty one. So this was
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Speaker 6: my fight against Dustin Poier November twelfth of twenty twenty two,
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Speaker 6: which as of right now was my last fight. So
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Speaker 6: waiting on the next one MM hmm.
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Speaker 4: That's what I said. I want you at your biggest, baddest,
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Speaker 4: and you're at your best.
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Speaker 1: It's dode a one seventy. Do I think I'd be
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Speaker 1: a great dance partner?
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Speaker 4: Do I think I'd be a formidable one that won't
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Speaker 4: just that won't just give him a challenge, but also
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Speaker 4: put butts in seats because people know.
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Speaker 1: That I am electrifiying When I said beside.
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Speaker 4: The Octagon House, so typical Conor fashion, he left his
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Speaker 4: options open.
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Speaker 3: Now got one dude on my mind. Donald McGregor, got
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Speaker 3: your turning back to dad, We got to business.
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Speaker 4: Michael back is scheduled for the end of the year,
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Speaker 4: sometimes the end of this year, closing out the show.
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Speaker 1: I think I'm just going to slice show.
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Speaker 4: It has it has to happen. I think I'm a
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Speaker 4: little too slicy for for.
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Speaker 1: Him than than anyone else.
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Speaker 5: He's fault.
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Speaker 4: Connor McGregor's road back to the UFC still goes through Nashville,
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Speaker 4: Tennessee and Michael Chandler.
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Speaker 1: We must finish Tough thirty one.
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Speaker 4: I've studied Connor. I've watched his fights, I have watched.
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Speaker 1: His his.
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Speaker 4: Areas in which I can exploit and the areas in
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Speaker 4: which I can dominate him, and I think there are
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Speaker 4: many ways that I can finish this fight. And I
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Speaker 4: do believe that immediately from the first bell, I meet
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Speaker 4: him in the center, and I immediately start making him
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Speaker 4: second guess himself. Immediately, Connor is gonna come out and
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Speaker 4: he's gonna try to get in my face. He's going
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Speaker 4: to try to take control of the fight, and very
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Speaker 4: quickly he will realize that he is in an octagon
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Speaker 4: with a very, very game opponent. I do believe that
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Speaker 4: I knock him out in the second round when the
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Speaker 4: self doubt starts coming in, when all of the deficiencies
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Speaker 4: of his actions, the compounding effect of his lack of
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Speaker 4: focus for the sport of mixed martial arts, when all
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Speaker 4: those things start setting in at a subconscious level and
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Speaker 4: it raises his heart rate, He's going to go downhill,
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Speaker 4: and he's gonna go downhill quick, and I'm going to
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Speaker 4: see an opening and I'm gonna get to finish extreme
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Speaker 4: patience patients that a lot of people question. That's number one.
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Speaker 4: Number two, It's the perfect closing of a chapter to
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Speaker 4: get to the next chapter for the guy who who
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Speaker 4: was doubted and the guy who wasn't supposed to be there,
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Speaker 4: the guy who walked on, who started at the bottom
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Speaker 4: of the totem pole, and there was only one way
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Speaker 4: to go, which was up to be standing across the
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Speaker 4: octagona against the biggest name in combat sports in the
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Speaker 4: history of combat sports that may never be a guy
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Speaker 4: who becomes bigger than common. It just seems so fitting
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Speaker 4: that it's me here I am, and all it is
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Speaker 4: is the diligent and consistent, persistent pursuit of becoming my
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Speaker 4: best self that I'm still able to be standing here
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Speaker 4: today in this position with a contract signed with Chandler
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Speaker 4: versus McGregor. This is the super Bowl of a mixed
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Speaker 4: martial arts career. When you get into the sport of
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Speaker 4: mixed martial arts, you want the biggest names, the brightest lights,
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Speaker 4: the biggest platform, the highest stakes. This is all of
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Speaker 4: those things times one hundred. Compared to every single other
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Speaker 4: fight that it will have in the next five years.
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Speaker 4: It has been the longest the longest build up to
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Speaker 4: a fight that we have ever seen. Right, It's been
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Speaker 4: taking a year and a half, could be end up
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Speaker 4: being two years by the time it happens, and then
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Speaker 4: to compound on top of that, it's the biggest fight
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Speaker 4: of the last five years, It'll be the biggest fight
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Speaker 4: of the next five years. So just stepping into that arena,
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Speaker 4: which is a different arena than any other arena that
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Speaker 4: any other fighter is listening to right now, or any
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Speaker 4: other fight that I have had, because the stakes are
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Speaker 4: that high and a fight against him is that big.
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Speaker 4: So starting to visualize and see myself handling that well,
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Speaker 4: handling the pressure of the moment, and then you hone
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Speaker 4: in on the two arms and the two legs, and
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Speaker 4: the opponent and his strength and his weaknesses, and how
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Speaker 4: I think I go out there and absolutely dismantle him.
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Speaker 4: Watching two guys start fighting, and then watch one man
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Speaker 4: shrink and watch the other man grow, and watch one
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Speaker 4: man gain momentum as the other one loses steam. To
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Speaker 4: see the actual human spirit dominate the other man, his
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Speaker 4: opponent's human spirit, To watch him wilt, and to get
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Speaker 4: on top of him and beat him with my fists
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Speaker 4: until he gives up his neck and I snatch his
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Speaker 4: soul out of his body. I have no problem saying
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Speaker 4: that I believe I'm the most prepared guy, and train
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Speaker 4: the hardest, and train the most with the most attention
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Speaker 4: to the detail of any fighter, let alone Connor. You
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Speaker 4: know who has shown chinks in his armor of enjoying
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Speaker 4: his the spoils of his labors, enjoying the lavish lifestyle
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Speaker 4: that he has, enjoying the money that he has, enjoying
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Speaker 4: the spotlight on the platform that he has, and all
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Speaker 4: of those things take you away from keeping the main
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Speaker 4: thing the main thing, and the main thing is just
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Speaker 4: to work. I think it's it just keeps you young.
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Speaker 1: It's in shape. The more muscle have masks you have,
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Speaker 1: the more your body's optimized.
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Speaker 4: You know, the accomplishments from from twenty sixteen and twenty
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Speaker 4: seventeen and twenty eighteen are not going to carry you
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Speaker 4: into accomplishments in the twenty twenty four. It was time
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Speaker 4: for him to make a pivot only because of the timeline.
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Speaker 4: And you guys can ask Dana how long the timeline
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Speaker 4: was gonna be until Connor actually comes back. But it
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Speaker 4: was too long for me. I'm not waiting around. We
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Speaker 4: had to fight book January twenty ninth. He pulls out
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Speaker 4: of the fight immediately, we start looking at other options.
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Speaker 4: Here we are now I'm fighting Charles number one get
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Speaker 4: tender fight, and I've always wanted to chase the title.
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Speaker 1: That's always been my goal.
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Speaker 4: I beat Charles and then if Connor can get his
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Speaker 4: house in order finally, then he and I can finish that.
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Speaker 11: You know, as far as Chinna re rematching OLIVERA, I'm
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Speaker 11: happy with the day.
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Speaker 3: It's November. Maybe we can still deal it after. I'm
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Speaker 3: just a bit, you know, out of the loop, you know.
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Speaker 4: So, oh, I'm still gonna be think about Connor McGregor.
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Speaker 4: Connor McGregor, as I, as I asserted at the very beginning,
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Speaker 4: Connor McGregor is still not off the hook. It is
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Speaker 4: not the critic who counts, not the man who points
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Speaker 4: out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer
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Speaker 4: of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs
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Speaker 4: to the man who is actually in the arena, whose
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Speaker 4: face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who
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Speaker 4: strives valiantly, who errs, who comes short again and again
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Speaker 4: because there is no effort without air or and shortcoming,
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Speaker 4: But who does actually strive to do the deeds, who
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Speaker 4: knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in
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Speaker 4: a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the
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Speaker 4: end the triumph of high achievement, and who at his worst,
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Speaker 4: if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so
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Speaker 4: that his place shall never be with those cold and
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Speaker 4: timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. H You know,
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Speaker 4: I think sometimes there's a questionable how are you? How
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Speaker 4: are you a Christian and a fighter?
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Speaker 9: How do you?
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Speaker 4: How are you?
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Speaker 12: You know?
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Speaker 4: How do you love people or follow Jesus but also
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Speaker 4: fight in a cage? And I I always post the question, well,
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Speaker 4: what who are you to ever question a man's calling
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Speaker 4: it in life and how he spreads his message? Right?
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Speaker 4: If I'm able to reach people through what I do
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Speaker 4: and how I do it, isn't that good for the kingdom?
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Speaker 3: You know?
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Speaker 4: And I've spoken to many pastors, and I've spoken to
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Speaker 4: many churches, and the common threat always is you are
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Speaker 4: reaching people that I will never be able to reach.
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Speaker 4: A pastor right knows more about the Bible than me,
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Speaker 4: talks to God more than I do, a better quote
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Speaker 4: unquote Christian than I am. Right, Yet there are people
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Speaker 4: that he will never ever ever be able to reach
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Speaker 4: that I can reach, right, And there's people that you
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Speaker 4: can reach that I'm not able to reach, or that
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Speaker 4: he's able to reach. Right, we all have our own
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Speaker 4: unique gift. I don't talk about my faith a ton,
29:45
Speaker 4: and I'm not quoting scriptures all the time. And yeah,
29:48
Speaker 4: I say, you know, God created us for this or
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Speaker 4: God created us for that, So you kind of get
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Speaker 4: the Christian undertones. But I don't want to sit here
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Speaker 4: and relate every single thing back to my faith. Sometimes
29:56
Speaker 4: people just want to talk to a human being and
29:59
Speaker 4: not just base thing off of scripture or base everything
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Speaker 4: off of biblical teachings. Right, So I think it's being
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Speaker 4: as human and normal as possible while also living your
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Speaker 4: life and rooting your life in biblical principles, to then
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Speaker 4: have a message that kind of intersects the two, you know,
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Speaker 4: preaching the Gospel at all times, but when necessary use words, Right,
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Speaker 4: If I am able to live a life that people say, Oh,
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Speaker 4: I don't know what it is about that guy. He's
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Speaker 4: probably a Christian. I've heard people say he's a Christian,
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Speaker 4: or I heard him say the word God. Is he
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Speaker 4: talking about my God? Is he talking about that God?
30:30
Speaker 4: Or God is he talking about? But all I know
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Speaker 4: is I like the way he lives his life where
30:34
Speaker 4: I like I like his vibes and I don't remember
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Speaker 4: what he said, but I remember how he made me feel.
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Speaker 4: We all use our gifts to use our voice to
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Speaker 4: reach the people that are supposed to hear it. And
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Speaker 4: my message may not resonate with your with certain people
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Speaker 4: that need to hear the message from you, And it's
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Speaker 4: just different seasons and different timings, and it's you never
30:58
Speaker 4: know who's going to make huge impact in your on
31:01
Speaker 4: your life. It could be a pastor, or it could
31:03
Speaker 4: be the craziest center that you ever would have thought.
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Speaker 5: Right, where is the time and place for sort of
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Speaker 5: the the like the real fight to come out in practice?
31:17
Speaker 5: So as you saved that for fight.
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Speaker 1: Night, pretty much save it for fight night.
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Speaker 6: I mean, our sparring sessions are pretty intense, you know,
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Speaker 6: they're definitely intense, But yeah, those aren't that as intense
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Speaker 6: as a fight though, because that's where you can take
31:42
Speaker 6: a lot of damage.
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Speaker 1: Feel that I've gotten the lesson spar hard spar technical,
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Speaker 1: never get over over your skis.
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Speaker 9: M H.
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Speaker 4: I don't need Connor McGregor to submit my legacy in
32:19
Speaker 4: this sport. I'm here to be champion. I'm here to
32:21
Speaker 4: be number one. That's why why I'm about to make
32:23
Speaker 4: this title run. Charles Olivera stole my dream of becoming
32:27
Speaker 4: UFC champion, my number one goal, becoming the number one
32:30
Speaker 4: guy in the entire world. Back in Houston, Texas, my
32:33
Speaker 4: second fight in the UFC. So now I dispatch up
32:35
Speaker 4: Charles Olivera November sixteenth at Madison Square Garden. You know,
32:44
Speaker 4: if you put one hundred people out and you line
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Speaker 4: them up and you say, hey, I, on a scale
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Speaker 4: of one to ten, how hard do you work? You
32:50
Speaker 4: might have a guy who said, hey, I think I'm
32:52
Speaker 4: a nine or a ten, But to me that's a three,
32:55
Speaker 4: you know. So it's just it's all about perspective. And
32:58
Speaker 4: I have my days. I have my moments of I
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Speaker 4: have my moments of you know, feeling like I cut
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Speaker 4: an cut a corner here. I gave myself permission to
33:07
Speaker 4: just chill and relax. And we have to have those
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Speaker 4: moments as as human beings or we become robots.
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Speaker 9: Right.
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Speaker 4: But ultimately, if you look at the body of work
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Speaker 4: and the body of work put in, and the hours
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Speaker 4: put in and the reps put in, I think I'm
33:22
Speaker 4: just head and shoulders above so many people that I'm around,
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Speaker 4: and I want the younger generation, the people that are
33:28
Speaker 4: looking up to me. I want parents to say, hey,
33:31
Speaker 4: look at that guy as an example for how you
33:33
Speaker 4: should be and how you should continue to grow up.
33:35
Speaker 4: And I want my peers and the younger fighters and
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Speaker 4: the younger athletes or younger entrepreneurs to say, hey, if
33:41
Speaker 4: he can do it and he can work that hard,
33:43
Speaker 4: then I'm going to glean a little bit of inspiration
33:45
Speaker 4: from that. And if I come even close to that,
33:47
Speaker 4: I'm going to find success in life. You know, it's
33:53
Speaker 4: like the Nelson Mandeli quote. Our greatest fear is not
33:55
Speaker 4: that we are inadequate. Our greatest fears that we are
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Speaker 4: powerful beyond belief. Who are you not to be successful
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Speaker 4: and beautiful and accomplish these things. There's nothing enlightened about
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Speaker 4: watering yourself down so that other people don't feel insecure
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Speaker 4: around you. And then you get a little bit older
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Speaker 4: and you realize, man, Okay, it's been decades now that
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Speaker 4: I've put this work in. It's been decades now that
34:18
Speaker 4: I've operated with integrity. It's been decades now that I
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Speaker 4: observe who I'm around and how hard I work. And
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Speaker 4: wait a second, I deserve to be successful, and I
34:30
Speaker 4: deserve to get to a crazy amount of success.
34:37
Speaker 8: Why not.
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Speaker 12: You You've got the brains, You can make decisions, you
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Speaker 12: can study the plan.
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Speaker 4: I know who I am, I know whose I am,
34:53
Speaker 4: and I also know what I was created for. These
34:55
Speaker 4: dreams are something that aren't just attainable, but they are
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Speaker 4: almost a requirement that I need to do, that I
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Speaker 4: need to go tackle in order to reach as many
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Speaker 4: people as I possibly can.
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Speaker 1: Why not? Now?
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Speaker 12: There never was a better time.
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Speaker 4: With being a father. I just I take it so
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Speaker 4: seriously because I realized that number one, I had great parents,
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Speaker 4: and number two, it is the most important thing that
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Speaker 4: I will ever do in my entire life. By our actions,
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Speaker 4: by the things we do, by the things that we say,
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Speaker 4: we are showing them what a man is. You know,
36:08
Speaker 4: We're showing them what a parent is. We are showing
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Speaker 4: them what an adult is. And sometimes pursuing your passion
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Speaker 4: is going to take you away from your children. And
36:18
Speaker 4: there's a balance. And I make conscious decisions all the
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Speaker 4: time to be with my family when I could choose
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Speaker 4: to go work, and I could choose to go pursue something.
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Speaker 4: But ultimately, you know, and I tell my son happ
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Speaker 4: now being seven years old, and I'll tell the same
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Speaker 4: thing to Ace that you'll know that Daddy wasn't always there,
36:38
Speaker 4: But when I wasn't there, it was because I was
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Speaker 4: pursuing God's best for my life and I was pursuing
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Speaker 4: my passion. So I can be selfish a little bit
36:47
Speaker 4: in order to be self less to serve you, guys
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Speaker 4: and to love you guys, because ultimately you don't need
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Speaker 4: me to be there all the time, but you need
36:55
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36:57
Speaker 4: am there, when I walk across that threshold of the
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Speaker 4: how hold after going out for eight weeks and pursuing something,
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Speaker 4: and reach people and fulfill my passion. When my heart
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Speaker 4: is full, of my cup is full, and I'm able
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Speaker 4: to come across that threshold and walk in a fulfilled
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Speaker 4: human being, that's the version of your Dad that you deserve,
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Speaker 4: not the one who makes concessions and skips out on
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Speaker 4: this and skips out on that and dummies down God's
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Speaker 4: calling for my life to then become a shell of
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Speaker 4: the human being that God created to me to be,
37:30
Speaker 4: to then be the father, or to then be a
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Speaker 4: shell of the father that I'm supposed to be. So
37:35
Speaker 4: there's a delicate dance between two. And it's a unique
37:43
Speaker 4: gift to have this experience of this long of a
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Speaker 4: fight career and this successful of a fight career, and
37:49
Speaker 4: all of the ups and all of the downs being
37:51
Speaker 4: translated into messages because fighting is in our DNA, whether
37:57
Speaker 4: we like to admit it or not. Whether you're a
37:59
Speaker 4: pacifist or you are a confrontationalist, fighting is in your DNA.
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Speaker 4: I believe that's the way the human spirit was designed.
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Speaker 4: I want to use those messages to try to help
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Speaker 4: change the world and make the world a better place.
38:20
Speaker 4: And I'm so grateful that my journey went from Jefferson County, Missouri,
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Speaker 4: to Northwest High School, to University in Missouri, to fighting
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Speaker 4: in belletoor to go into the UFC. It all played
38:33
Speaker 4: out the way it was supposed to. And God had
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Speaker 4: me in the palm of his hand the entire time,
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Speaker 4: and he kept sprinkling in certain people, certain successes and
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Speaker 4: certain failures to get me to that moment. Patience is
38:47
Speaker 4: so important, and yes you're not where you want to
38:50
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38:53
Speaker 4: that's somewhere down the road. If you keep doing the
38:55
Speaker 4: right things and you keep holding yourself to that standard,
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Speaker 4: you're going to blossom into that man or woman that
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Speaker 4: you need to be. For me, it took you know,
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Speaker 4: sixteen or what I guess it was twelve years total
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Speaker 4: finally blossom into the man. I was a late bloomer
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Speaker 4: in high school, late bloomer in college, and now late
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Speaker 4: bloomer and mixed martial arts, and here I am right
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Speaker 4: where I'm supposed to be.
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