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  1. “Absolutely. And that was my thought process going into buying the UFC. And I believe that this would work everywhere. And thank God we were right.”

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  2. “They're super expensive Insecurity never fucking came. Just let these guys fight until they gassed out And everybody put their chairs back together and sat back down and fucking. I literally got up from my table, walked over, and was watching this fight. The fights.”

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  3. “Care what color you are, what country you come from, or what language you speak. We're all human beings. Fighting's in our DNA, we get it and we like it. And it's true. Fighting is in our DNA. It's a part of who we are. Now, no matter where you are, fight breaks out, it creates this fucking energy, this buzz, this sense of fear. I mean, a lot of different emotions happen in people when fights break out. But one thing that is always the case, everybody's watching, man. Everybody's fucking it, all of their eyes are on the fight. I mean, we were just in Mexico. Fucking fight broke out like in the good seats, like right here.”

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  4. “100. I literally, I don't even like to sleep. My life is so awesome. I don't even want to go to bed at night. I don't even want to go to sleep. I want to stay up fucking.”

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  5. “I'm not afraid of death. Not even a little bit. I'm not afraid of it. I don't know if that'll be the case when I'm facing it, when I'm looking down the barrel of it. Land in a hospital bed somewhere”

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  6. “And it's so true. I mean, when you think about, like, I'm 54 years old right now. I mean, it just fucking flew by. You think when you're young that you have all this time, you have no time. There's no time. I mean, one of the quotes on the wall in the gym in there is, you know, there is no tomorrow from Rocky III. There is no tomorrow. Fuck that shit. Let's get all this shit done today.”

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  7. “I would agree I would agree And especially if you can really. Hear the messages that it's given you in this movie. It's excellent. You know, it's funny. They just did like the, and I saw this after the fact, which completely fucking pissed me off. They did like the 25 year or the 30 year thing. It was filmed in Spokane, Washington. They showed the movie at a movie theater there, and the cast members came out and spoke about it. I would have fucking flown there for that. Are you shitting me? I'd have been there in fucking 30 seconds to go up there and...”

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  8. “Pele. When he's saying about, I'm fucking cooking in an overnight hotel fucking thing and I live in this shitty apartment. A human being can lift themselves upside down and backwards and kick a ball into a fucking net and the whole stadium goes crazy and this guy runs around and I'm sitting here in my fucking apartment alone and I start crying. Yeah, I start crying. So the guy who's been shitting on him the whole fucking time actually really respects him for what he's done and sees what this kid is capable of doing and all this shit. This fucking movie spoke to me on so many different levels. And I think it's probably the most underrated movie of all time when you really break down the meaning of what this movie is about. And it fucking really spoke to me.”

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  9. “Guy's apartment because he knows when he shows up at this guy's apartment, he's going to go, Yeah, this no, he went to work. He went to work to talk to him and he wasn't at work. He took the night off. So he shows up at the fucking house, the shitty little fucking apartment that the guy lives in, and the guy's putting his suit and tie on and shit. He's like, they said you called in sick. What's going on? He's like, well, yeah, aren't you wrestling this guy tonight? And he's like, yeah, but why would you, you're going to get docked a night's pay and all this other? She says, you know what, man? Then it all gets laid out. I get the goosebumps even telling you this fucking.”

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  10. “Things in the movie that really lay out what life is all about. One of the parts is he's in a class and he's talking about, the teacher is talking about some poem. And he says, what does this poem mean to you? Well, this little girl's walking through the park and all the leaves are falling off the trees. And she realizes that she's going to die someday. And that a lot of people think they have all this time, so they fucking waste it. And they never go out and do what they really set out to do or accomplish or do anything great in their life. That's one meaning. Then he's got the guy that he works with at work. You know, he's cutting weight and his nose is bleeding and all this shit. And this guy keeps going, why the fuck are you doing this? Pick that thing up and eat it like a fucking man. This is ridiculous. I don't know why you're doing this to yourself. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So then when he meets the girl and he gets to the point where he feels like he wants to quit, right? Where does he go? He goes to that.”

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  11. “I fucking love that movie It's basically, you know, it's telling the story of a kid who really wasn't anybody in high school and nobody kind of knew who he was, who wasn't popular or any of that kind of shit. And he decided that that was the year that he was going to make his mark. And he was a good wrestler at 178 pounds, but he was going to move down to 160-something to take on the shoot, the scariest guy and whatever. But there's all these little...”

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  12. “I'm actually very superstitious about that. I believe that what you put out, you get back. And I believe that when you have, you should take care of other people and you should always try to. Bring people up with you and all that kind of stuff, but the movie that changed the whole trajectory of my life. Vision Quest”

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  13. “Yeah, it would have to be casino. Doubt about it Ever see a movie that changed your life that actually impacted your life in some way, shape or form”

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  14. “Thing's a beast. It's an absolute beast. In 13 months, that's the most successful thing I've ever been a part of. And I love every fucking minute of it, especially the negativity. I love negativity.”

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  15. “I love that too. I love problem solving. I love taking things that seem impossible. Fucking, what's been shit on more than this fucking company right here Power slap, right?”

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  16. “And there's this turn on Summerland Parkway, right? Every night and it's dark. And from there, you can see the entire fucking city. And it's all fucking lights and it's badass. And I'm usually driving home after a fucking incredible day, right? This amazing day and this unbelievable fucking life that I have. And I have this just moment of gratitude. Every time I take that turn and I'm like, God, damn, I love this fucking city. And just every night when I go home, I'm just so happy and grateful for this life that I have”

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  17. “And I love the build brands. I love to set short-term and long-term goals and then knock them all down. This is just the stuff that excites me. And whether it's business or gambling, I like being a fan of things too. Like I like live music. So when I find a band that I like, I get excited to go watch the band live or Celtics game. I love the fucking Boston Celtics and I love, you know, going to the games and watching them. This is the year. Hopefully we're going to fucking win it this year. These are all things that make me happy and excite me in my life. And it's funny because there's this post that I post maybe three, four nights a week. I also love this city. I can't tell if the city of Las Vegas was built for me or I was built for this fucking city, but I love it.”

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  18. “The truth, though listen, every day when you get out of bed, life's standing right there to kick you in the face, man. Could be anything. Could be you get up and you walk downstairs, you had a fucking flat tire, and you're late for work, and you got this and that. Life is going to throw all kinds of crazy shit at you, right? And you have to be ready for it. And you got to fucking deal with it. You can't curl up into a ball. You can't run away from it. You can't hide. You have to take all this shit head on. You have to get up. Every day when I get up out of bed, I strap up and I'm getting ready for fucking war. Because I know I'm coming in here. I know a bunch of bad shit's going to happen that I'm going to fucking deal with. If that's not bad enough, when I finally get out of here, I'm probably going to go to the casino and I'm going to get into another fucking war. You know what I mean? I thrive in chaos. I actually love chaos. Everybody talks about retiring. Fuck that shit. What am I going to do when I retire? What would I do? What would I? I like to go to war. I like to battle. I like to win. Sometimes I lose. But then I have to come back from the loss.”

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  19. “Gambling isn't for you. You know, if you are the type of person that's on social media and people say horrible things to you and you get depressed and you shouldn't be on social media. You know what I mean? These are all part of being in the game. When you're in the fucking game, great things happen and really bad things happen. And you got to take it all in stride. And you got to pick yourself up the next day, strap your fucking shoes back on and get out there and go to fucking war again. That's how it works.”

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  20. “So when I win, it's awesome. It's always great to win. Winning is a great feeling in business, in sports, in life, and definitely in gambling. Losing is never fun, but it's part of the game. You know what I mean? If you want to be in the game and it's sports, it's business or whatever, there's going to be wins and there's going to be losses. And you have to take them both in stride and you have to be able to, you know, There's a lot of people when you gamble, right? And you lose, and you go into a deep, dark depression. I've seen this with guys that do it. Get depressed.”

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  21. “They go hand in hand. So the way that I play is I live in Vegas a war for me. I go to war in 24. Okay All these knights that I play are little battles inside the war that I will fight in twenty four. Now, at the end of the year, we will tally up all these little battles. And see where I stand on wins and losses and There's lots of talk about out there about my gambling, places that I've been kicked out of and things like that. And. I do pretty well. I do pretty well. But it's what I like to do. I don't gamble in a way that I would ever hurt myself or hurt my family or I'm sure you've heard the Norm McDonald's stories. Norm McDonald lost like his entire personal wealth four times or something like that. Yeah, that's not going to happen to me”

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  22. “Having a bad loss, and then, you know, of course I said call the GM and I started calling him a plusie at 3 o'clock in the morning. That is something I would absolutely do.”

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  23. “That was the real number. And then, you know, there's been a lot of cases where people are in Vegas and they're like, I lost all this money and they were giving me free drinks and I drank too much and I was taking advantage of no you stupid motherfucker man up you got drunk right they didn't alcohol is free You don't have to fucking drink it. You know what I mean? And, you know, this was a huge learning lesson for me. So I never drank again when I was playing cards after that night. When you ask me, that's the one that stands out. Oh, it came back right now. I had the most as far as”

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  24. “Dead fucking silence on the other end of the phone. And he's like, Dana, you lost $3 million last night. The fuck are you talking about? I only have a million and a half dollar credit line. He goes, yeah, you made us call the GM of the hotel and you started calling him a fucking pussy and da da da da. And I went. Yeah, no, that, that.”

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  25. “Are you coming back? Do you still need the room that you guys had where you ate and all this shit? And I said, no, I don't need the room, but don't get too comfortable with my fucking 80 grand. I'm coming back for it.”

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  26. “One night I'm over at the Rio, right? They got big sweets over there, so I go over there with some buddies, and we got one of the sweets, and we have some dinner, and we start drinking, right? So we're having some drinks at dinner and blah, blah, blah. Starts to ramp up, having a good time. And, um, I make my way down to the tie limit room. We start gambling and I continue to drink. Having a blast I end up leaving and going home that night. And I lost like 80 grand, right? So I wake up the next morning and I'm like, fuck those motherfuckers got me for $80,000 last night and so I'm at work the next day. And the host over there calls me and he says, hey, Dana.”

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  27. “Biggest loss was I would call this the biggest loss. For many different reasons, this is what you live and you learn in life and you know, you figure things out as you go along”

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  28. “Well, two things. I won a million dollar hand one night. It's happened one time. A million dollar hand one night at Mandale And then one summer I beat Caesars for 12 million. Throughout the sum”

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  29. “So true. It's so true, and it happens every fucking weekend. It's so impressive. I say it all the time. The people that are involved in this sport are this much of the population. The people that make it to the top five are incredibly unique special human beings, man. It's fucking awesome.”

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  30. “You think about these fights that you see in the UFC every fucking Saturday when these men and women get to this point where they've been in a dog fight, yet they keep fucking going and you keep trying to win. You can't imagine what's going on inside their heads, you know, self-doubt and all these other things that come into play when exhaustion sets in and they fucking power through it.”

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  31. “Fatigue sets in, and then fatigue makes you start to fucking doubt yourself. And then you start to wonder, can I even make it through the rest of this round? And then you start to think, am I going to fucking die right now? And these kids dig fucking deep. And they just, like you said, all the other shit flies out the window and now they're just on fucking autopilot to fight and win. Those are definitely the best fights you'll ever see in any combat sport”

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  32. “Because you're in those deep rounds. You've been through a war. Now it's all about heart and dog. We all know when that moment happens in a fight, when you see that both of these guys are fucking exhausted. And for people that are watching this, people that don't know a lot about it, everybody thinks they know a lot about fighting. 99.9% of the people out there don't know fucking jack shit about fighting or what it takes to do what these people do. But when you get into those later rounds.”

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  33. “Looking down, they're both bad dudes. They were both real fighters at the end of the day. That's why the fight was so great.”

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  34. “About winning. They both wanted to win the Ultimate Fighter so bad It's the Kia. It's the win. It's the contractor yet. The whole thing.”

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  35. “You know, Forrest drove that Kia to like 200,000 miles. Biggest mistake Kia ever made was not doing a fucking commercial with Forrest Griffin about that car. Forrest Griffin loved that car so much he drove it. I think he still has it. It's got like 200,000 miles on that car. I mean, you couldn't have a better commercial than that. And we reached out to them too. I said, Kia should know about this. They fucking blew it. You got a bunch of, you know Are in the business world, they don't fucking get anything.”

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  36. “All the shit. And at that time, I didn't know what the ratings, not like we were streaming and we could see what we had no idea, but I knew.”

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  37. “So we had so many problems with Spike TV at the time, right? Because halfway through the season, the president of the company got fired. All the things that we thought we were going to get that year, we have this runaway hit show. And normally at that time, when you would see runaway hit shows, there'd be commercials, it'd be on billboards, it'd be on the side of buses in LA and New York. We got none of that, right? We didn't even know if we were going to get a second season coming out of that, right? When that fight was over, I swear to God, I was like, I don't even give a fuck. We're going to end up somewhere now after this fight. And we didn't even make it out of the building that night. The spike guys did the contract with us in the alley on a fucking napkin after the fight.”

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  38. “Me and the Fertita brothers get together and we talk, we're going to give them both contracts. So we give them both contracts and the place erupts. It couldn't have been a more perfect fight at the most perfect time. And it just, it all came together. It's almost like... This was meant to be. You know what I mean?”

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  39. “Well, what happened that night is that the rest of the show was a disaster. You know, we had the co-main event and the main event. Diego Sanchez ran through Kenny Florian in seconds. Oh my God, that was terrible. And the fights that led up to that weren't anything to talk about either. Then Stephan and Forrest got in there and just went toe to toe in this unbelievable slug fest live on free television when cable still mattered. And what I heard was at the time. You had people picking up the phone going, Are you watching this show? The numbers just started climbing. Then you got a razor thin decision who's going to win. You got the crowd stomping their feet. It sounded like a train was going through the place and everybody's chanting one more round.”

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  40. “A lot of people deal with fame. Some people handle it really well, and some people don't. And the perfect example of that was Forrest Griffin and Stephan Bonner. You know, they fought that unbelievable fight on the Ultimate Fighter. Everything blew up after that. Four state dealt with fame really well, and Stefan did not.”

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  41. “your life and you live it the way that you want and do your thing but the ones that are beloved are the guys who really want to be fucking great and they're the ones that are remembered and I mean when you look at Tyson in his early years when he came up under Castillamato I mean he was a student of the game he loved everything he became completely infatuated with the fight game then he became such a massive superstar it's almost like the whole thing starts to turn on you know all the things that come at you at a young age and that kind of money and it's it's tough it's tough to navigate and get through and you know you you say something like that people like oh poor him he had fucking a hundred million dollars and couldn't at that age and with all the shit that people talk and all the things that you got to put up with and the fame”

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  42. “Well, the guys that get into it for the right reason are the guys who get into it for greatness because you want to be the fucking best, right? And when you're in it for that reason, right, you love it and you want to be looked at as the best ever And you have the talent, the money happens, right? Then you have other guys who get it, I believe me, I've dealt with fighters who just wanted to be famous and just wanted to make money. You know what I mean? And it's, you know, listen, it is what it is. It's your.”

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  43. “I think that Mike Tyson is actually one of those unique guys who has crossed over any of these other boxers from his era. They have no way of making money other than fighting. Mike Tyson has made a lot of money outside fighting. I mean, Tyson still has that aura. You could be at a restaurant. And he walks in and you're like, holy fuck, Mike Tyson's here. You know, he still has that type of aura and energy in a room. And he makes lots of money outside of the ring. I just think that he ends up getting these offers that he can't refuse.”

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  44. “Love Mike Tyson I'm not a fan of anybody fighting at our age. But he's a grown man, obviously. And, you know, he's going to do what he's going to do. But at least I know. I talk to. Talked to his wife a couple days ago, and he's taken this serious and he's training for it. So we'll see how it plays out.”

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  45. “The most powerful, wealthiest man in the world, right? Lots of guys talk shit and go back and forth and sue each other and do all this. These two guys were literally talking about facing each other in the octagon and fighting. There's nothing. And they're in a business that's looked at as geeky. You know what I mean? They're tech nerds. They're this. They're that. These are two dudes that were willing to throw down and fight. And you know as well as I do. There's a lot of public speculation about this. I was taken serious real time and working on this thing. I mean, I had projections. I had numbers. I was looking at venues. I was on the phone with the fucking Coliseum in Italy. You name it. I was in it. These guys were serious. And this was something that was really going to happen. And I'll tell you right now in the short amount of time.”

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  46. “There's nothing dirtier than politics. Nothing. There's literally nothing dirtier. It is the dirtiest thing on planet Earth”

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  47. “I don't know, man. It's going to depend on how this whole Politics is the most dirtiest, scummiest thing on planet Earth, man, and who knows how this is all going to play out. It's all dirty. It's all ugly. And, you know, obviously Rooting for him, and I'm behind him, and I hope he does. But we'll see.”

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  48. “Unfaced. Like nothing's going on. And they'll start talking to me about this and that and all this other shit one time Only been one time I've never talked about this publicly, but. I called him and he was not good. He was a mess, and I've never heard him like that, and I've never seen him like that when Ivana Only time I've ever seen him fucked up. Obviously, as soon as I heard it, I reached out and... I have never look at all the stuff that's gone on with Trump, all the bad stuff that they say. They're trying to attack him. They're trying to ruin them. Unfazed. I called him that day and he was, this is the first time I've ever seen that guy busted up and not good.”

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  49. “I mean, there's so many stories. I mean Once he won the election, I'd be at work and I'd be down the hall, was in the matchmaking room, whatever. And my secretary until the president's on the phone fucking come running down the hallway and grabbed the phone and he'd want to talk about the fight that was coming up or the fight that happened. Or I'd be in my car and I'd answer the phone. It's like, hi, this is the White House. We have the president. The United States on the phone. Know that's a trip when that first starts happening. And then To sum him up, this is the kind of guy that Want to talk about a fighter the most resilient human being I've ever met. If you see the shit that this guy's going through publicly every day, And I'll call him on the phone as a friend and be like, hey, you good? How you doing?”

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  50. “He definitely saw it And then comes 15, 16, whenever it was, I don't remember. But he called me and he said, listen. If you don't want to do this, I completely understand. But I would be honored if you would speak at the National Republican Convention for me. And I'm not a very political guy. You know what I mean? And everybody told me not to do it. Do not do this. But I was like, why would I not do this? This guy's been great to me. And I did it. And our relationship is just like, you know what I mean? I consider Donald Trump to be one of my very, very good friends.”

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