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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
So I think there's a lot of people who are really interested to see how good I really am, because they know I'm good, but they're not really sure how good. They want to see that, and there's definitely interest in that, but because of some other people's shortsightedness, maybe it never really happens.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Young guys kind of have this chip on their shoulder of, 'I want to prove something,' right? 'I've got to prove how tough I am. I've got to prove how good I am.' And man, now as I'm getting older, I think it's almost sad when guys my age and older still have that chip on their shoulder.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's like, hey, I've done what I could do, I've accomplished a lot, and now this - especially with wrestling - if this next generation wants to pass me up, great job. Good for them.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's more to life than fighting.
- Goals
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not willing to compromise my goals for monetary value.
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I'm just a straightforward kind of dude.
- Motivated
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not hugely monetarily motivated.
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I don't try to hide my feelings or what I think.
- Persistence
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my best qualities is my persistence.
- High School And College
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I came through the ranks in wrestling - in high school and college - those systems have been in place for 100 years, and they're fairly standard training across the board for all the colleges.
- Organization
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are conferences every year where all the major coaches get together, and they talk about the issues in wrestling, what's going to happen. There's a major governing body, U.S.A. Wrestling, which oversees a lot of the issues. The organization is there in wrestling to make a very well-balanced, organized system.
- Coaches
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- Nov 07, 2020
In MMA, all of these coaches are doing their best.
- Gym
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- Nov 07, 2020
A Division I college wrestling team has so many guys at such a high level it'd be like having every single guy in the gym being a top 10 UFC guy, and that's who you're competing against every single day. Most everyone has been wrestling since they were 5 years old. It's been their dream to wrestle in college. There's such a high level of intensity.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I trained with Jorge Masvidal when I've been training MMA for 2-1/2 months in Coconut Creek, Fla., in, like, December 2008. I was beating him up then!
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- Nov 07, 2020