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Israel Adesanya

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“Time for your grace, your humility, and your openness as well means a lot to me. Likewise, my man. I'm going to look into you a little bit more. This is the thing whenever I like to meet new people and learn about them. So hearing your story, I'm just like, man, that's still like 700 million at 27.”
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“Anime stuff as well, Brad. Yeah, but that's just me being a big kid. Exactly, authentic expression of self. If you put it out there, those who appreciate will gravitate. Fuck, I like that. That's a bar. T-shirt? That's a bar. Those who appreciate will gravitate. I'm going to keep”
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“This was fun. That's levels. There's ways. I I did computer graphic design in college and I felt like some of the stuffs I learned there really helped me with my social media when it comes to making my own highlights when I was coming up. Posting”
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“Let me see I think diving into my personal life a little bit. Anything that has to do with family relationships or like I said, yeah, family that I'm gonna have. I'm glad people don't though because, like I said, I like to just keep those things guarded. But yeah, and I think people kind of get my love life and off for sale. My family's not for sale. Those kind of things, like I said, I won't sell for the consumption of people to watch. I'm not the Kardashians. You know, I ain't Kanye West. I ain't putting all my business out there. Yeah. So for me, yeah, I keep those things guarded. So I think people kind of respect that and understand that so they don't push too much. You get like a little bit here every now and then, but not nothing too much. Yeah.”
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“I mean, you touched on a few things I normally don't even talk about. Like relationships and kids a little bit, that stuff that I really hold guarded, but... Some funny ones in my headphone. I'm going to talk about those.”
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“Worried about some real shit happening. So yeah, I feel like people just start to create problems because we need struggle. We need struggle in our lives. That's the thing.”
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“Happiness, and that's why I feel like even today the way the world is, like the problems that we have, especially with all this divisiveness and whatnot, I'm like, you guys are really having your real problems. Like when people in New Zealand start to complain about some stuff, I'm like, you guys are really worried about this. It's like, because there's no real problem. The police aren't trying to kill the people constantly. You know, the government isn't, well, they are fucking the people over, but not the same way as, you know, Nigerians have been fucked with by their government for so long. So it's like, man, you're really having your real. Do you think anyone will give a fuck about any of that shit?”
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“From the impoverished parts of London will be lucky to have my old job, from where I'm from, from Nigeria. A lot of people will be blessed to have my old job. And they'll be like, yo, this is, I have a great job. I can send money back home, this and that. But yeah, I just had bigger dreams. I just knew what I wanted. So I feel like I'm spoilt that I can dream the way I do and I can manifest the way I do. So I never take it for granted and I realize the position that I'm in. I'm privileged. I'm very privileged.”
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“You don't know where you're going. You're lost. You know what I mean? You have no direction. So for me, I felt like both of them together, when you really, when you have the vision and you were able to manifest, then you also put the work in, magic happens, man. Magic. That's where the magic is. A lot of people never get there, unfortunately. A lot of people, we're blessed that we can dream. We're blessed that we can dream. That's one thing I've realized because a lot of people.”
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“Sitting in the car. Sitting in the fucking car. You can sit there and make all these dreams a manifest, but you have to work.”
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“I just can't tell the world, but like there's levels that I've manifested things that I'm just like, I still shock myself like, how the fuck did I make that happen? And this is not even to do with fighting. This is to do with my personal life. And I'm like, I made that happen. And this is through this manifesting subconsciously as well, just years of something just manifesting, manifesting. And boom, it's right there. I'm just like, shit, I really made that happen. It's scary, man. It's scary for me to even think about.”
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“10%. 100%. Everything comes from the imagination. Everything comes from before this microphone was a microphone, someone. Somehow thought about it. How can I speak into something that would amplify my voice and blah, blah, blah, blah? And then this came out of it and it's evolved over the years. Well, everything comes from the imagination. So the power of the mind, people don't understand. We still don't understand. I still don't understand how powerful it is. I'm still learning. But I know one thing is I can make things happen. I can go into levels”
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“There's levels. There's people like us. We're crazy in the sense that we believe to be, it's almost delusional sometimes. Like what's the one? I heard this quote on the JRE before is that greatness and madness are next door neighbors and they just borrow each other sugar once in a while. You know what I mean There's a point like I've used a story of me when I drive this beat up Honda and I shift the gear stick and now just do this. It was madness. It was me preparing for having a sports car, paddle shifts. So I shifted three, gear four, boom. And when I dropped down. Know same thing. Just like I was getting ready. Bro, I can manifest like a motherfucker”
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“Yeah. I always knew so. I knew I wasn't going to be regular. I just knew I was going to be Great at something, I didn't know what it was, but I knew I was going to be great at something. I just knew even when I was working my last job, I just, I'm grateful for it because it showed me what I didn't want in life. I just knew this isn't for me”
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“I said no. Why? Because I fucking said so. That's it. I didn't even explain myself to you. Who the fuck are you? I don't know if I'm a bar of soap. And again, you're more excited to meet me than I am to meet you.”
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“And then they come up to me and say, I'm busy right now, man. If they leave me alone, on my way out, if I see that person and they were nice and respectful, I'd be like, yo, you have your phone on you, then we'll take a photo. Because I'm like, thanks for being respectful. Because sometimes I can understand people's judgment goes out the way when they see a celebrity, apparently. And I felt this way. Like I said, you just don't realize you're etiquette. So when that happens, I don't hold it against them. I'm like, it's learned behavior, like I said. So then I'll, yeah, I'll take my time out of my day and just say what's up afterwards. But if they like, you know, oh, please, please, I'm like, bro, you know I'm respecting my boundaries. You didn't respect my no. I need my no to be respected”
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“Because it's like, first of all, you see I'm having, I'm on a date right now, and I said, No, or I'm walking with someone right now, having an intimate moment, and you're disturbing my peace. So I say, no. And if you try and like push, push, okay, no. And something like, oh, fuck, you know, they'll say something stupid or Rubble smash you anyway, or whoever your next opponent is. I was like, huh, okay. Did I just let them, this is why I didn't take a photo with you. Sometimes at a restaurant, like if I say no to someone, because I'm having lunch or I'm on a date or whatever.”
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“Know then I started at me for the next few days. So, yeah, I'm getting, it's practice, it's constantly evolving, but I know how to say no, no. I just say, and I don't have to explain myself, I literally just say no, because when you're explaining yourself, you're losing. I learned that from Cho Sutton. I remember when I used to listen to his podcast. He said something really profound. Like when you explain to yourself, you're losing. So I don't explain myself. I just say no. If someone like, can I get a photo? I'm like, I'm busy. Oh, please. I'm like, no.”
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“I'm better at it now. I never used to be. This is where I was talking about the people pleaser thing back in the day. And this is why this year, one of my things is I don't get fucked up around people I don't like or I don't know because I realize when I get drunk. I'm too nice. I'm a friendly drunk. I'm like a fucking golden retriever when I'm drunk or black Labrador. I'm just like, hey, not everyone's your friend. Not everyone wants the best for you. But they'll just take advantage and try and like, you know. I just let my boundaries get crossed too many times, and I let people get too close, maybe like, then the next day I'm just like, why the fuck did I let that person, you know, ah, fuck, I wish I'd said no to that?”
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“This is nice, and I'll just sit in it, and I'll just enjoy it. I enjoy the happiness, and I enjoy what I'm doing. I enjoy where I'm at. And then when the bad thing comes, I'm like, ah, there it is. So when I say, yeah, I'm happy right now. I'm happy, very happy.”
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“Because it's not lasting, it's fleeting. That's one thing I've also learned as well is. Well, you can't enjoy the sunshine without a little rain, and everything is temporary. Everything's forever changing. So even right now, I'm happy. I'm enjoying life. I love where I'm at. I love who I'm around. I love who I'm with. You know, I... I know it's not lasting because guess what? Something's going to happen that's going to shake that up. Because back in the day, whenever this was happening, I was a few good days. Things are nice. Where's the thing that's gonna fuck me up? But now I'm just like.”
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“Football debug didn't catch me. didn't catch me as a sports didn't really catch me as a kid because I was unathletic funny enough yeah no I was never really athletic kid yeah”
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“I have a special traditional Valentine's Daddy I used to do, but I don't really play around with it anymore. I just used to just mad memes on my page and just, it was funny. It was just a way. First of all I did it was in 2014. Ability 2014 Valentine's Day I was fighting and throughout the day I was waiting for the fight. I was just bored Before stories on Instagram. So I just put up like 80 posts that day. Just like, yeah, I know. People going mad at me. People were really entertained. But I didn't care. I was just in that fight mode. So I was just like, fuck, put in a post about bands. Just memes and just making fun of Valentine's Day. But fuck. Good times. Good times before I was I guess super famous.”
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“Exactly. I really don't celebrate my birthday, to be honest. Every day's my birthday. I can do whatever the fuck I want. I don't buy gifts for people on their birthday. I just buy them if I see something. I say, oh, I think she'll like that. I think he'll value that. I'll just buy it just because I'm like, oh. Give them the experiences because that's why they'll value that. But”
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“The last one was that was when I watched my boy Blood Diamond jump on the scale to weigh in. And I get really emotional. Fight weeks like my wedding week, I feel. This is why I dread getting married because the guest list, I'm just like, I don't even fucking know who I want to invite because people are going to be like, oh, you do. That's why I don't celebrate my birthday. Because it's like a few times a year, there's a whole week that everything's about me. So I don't need another special day that it's about me. So that's why I'm also dreading, like I said, my wedding day on my birthday.”
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“Gets into the course. I live behind you. You let me gets me, man. Every single time, I don't know why about something about that track Just gets me in my field. I didn't even think about it and I get goosebumps. Yeah. Double up's the track”
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“Hold up. Oh, Victory. Oh no, that was a nip Which one was from Victory Relap though? Yeah, yeah. Double up. Y'all, every time that song gets me every time.”
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“I don't do that. There's things I've done. Tim will tell you after this. I mean, even for this fight, there was someone that I think last year he went through some stuff that I heard about on the media and I was just like fuck. I went through that shit as well. And then this fight, I brought him out and I showed him a good time. Yeah, he and his mom and I put them up, got them tickets and just made sure they, yeah, they were looked after. I met him backstage and just gave him a few words of encouragement. And I don't need to bring it up because I can.”
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“Even though that is selfish in a sense, because I'm getting something, I'm getting good feels out of it. But still, I'm making someone feel good. Rather than that, but I'm not doing it to be like. Hey, man, you know, I know you're hungry, and I just bought you this meal because I really want to show love to you, man.”
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“You know, like he does that, just drop jams everywhere. It makes people happy because it feels good to make people feel good.”
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“Yeah, I'm doing the same thing as well. I'm setting my people up, the people in my circle. I'm not handing anything out to them, but just with opportunities. And also experiences. I'm giving them experiences to inspire them But yeah, there's things that I do behind the scenes that I don't necessarily, I don't know, like I'm not one of these guys, I don't do it for the likes. I do it for love. And I feel like there's a bar from Jay-Z. The best form of giving is anonymous to anonymous. So there's ways I just drop gems. Like Shaq, I love the way Shaq does it, but he does it quite overly.”
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“Like those who are alive to what, or not alive, or around to watch Jordan's reign in the NBA. I'm sure when they hear Jordan, they can just, I remember that time I was at that game, or I remember that time I watched that game live and they remember the feeling. I want those like when they remember my name to be like, I was there 243. I remember how I was in the arena when he won that feeling. People forget what you say or what you do, but they never forget how you make them feel. So it's the feeling I want to make sure they remember.”
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“Exactly, enjoy it. I don't know. I don't know, but I know when it's all said and done. My name will be remembered in history. What's that Troy line? And that's why no one will remember your name or whatever it was. But like, I want to make sure that my name will be remembered and revered throughout history as one of the... One of the best in this game, but also just as a person, just the GC, just a good cunt, just a happy dude who was enjoying life and just, I don't know, making shit happen. What's more about the feeling, though? I want people to remember my name and just remember the feeling I gave them. You know what I mean?”
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“I think I want to be immortal. I don't know if it's my ego or I'm selfish or what it is, but I just know, look, I dissonia, the prefix idea is royalty, where we're from. You know, idea from the Yoruba tribe. You know, that's some royal blood tied to it. I diss on you. But now, worldwide, the name Adis on you. It's synonymous for greatness forever. It's synonymous with greatness. And I'm going to make sure that is that name, I dison, you're proud to be like, yep. I'm tied to that bloodline. I understand because I don't know. I don't know what it is. Is it my ego? Why is it that fucking King Tut wanted to be buried in this tomb with all his gold? Even though he's...”
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“I took all that. I'm a banker. Yeah, like. Yeah, I don't know what I was thinking back then. I thought I knew what I wanted when I was 18. I'm going to have kids when I'm 23, 24. Fucking hell. Tof”
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“It's not that deep. It is obviously your career. But I'm like, there's more to life. There's way more to life in this than just this idea of who you think you are. Because when I was fucking 18, I thought I was going to be married and have kids at 23. Point was I wrong. I'm like, how the fuck? Who let me buy a house now? I'm like, why? I don't know. Who let me do that? I shouldn't. Should never giving these niggas money.”
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“We're the ones. I was the lowest. Yes, thank you. Okay, now go on take a seat. Okay, yes. Thank you. Oh, the worst, man. That's just humiliating, but it's like, I don't know if it's meant to motivate you or what, but I didn't do shit. And like I said, a lot of people start like, if I see that now even like, Young people decide to tie this self worth. I have a friend in med school who literally like when it gets crunch time, they're just like, I need to get these grades. I need to get the grades up. And they just identify themselves. If I don't get this, I'm useless. This is it. I failed. I'm like, you're 23. Calm the fuck down.”
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“Exactly. One of the worst ones I remember was in boarding school in Nigeria. I was bottom three in the class. And of course, they'll have to announce it, the bottom three. You have to stand in front of the school. These are the bottom three of my.”
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“Copy exactly. Copy this. I don't even know what, because we're doing these when I was in high school, NCEA credits. I remember just like towards the end of the year, so this credits, credits, credits, not to repeat the whole year I didn't know what it was. I was like, credit, well, NCA credits. What's all this credit shit? Credit, credit, credit. I did not care. I didn't understand. I just didn't fathom it. But then eventually when I got a grasp of it, I was like, oh, this sucks. It's a shit system.”
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“You don't want to whip race and fucking pumpkins who don't have any social skills Yeah, I want to make sure that they have those kind of skills by interacting with other kids through gymnastics or through jiu-jitsu or other activities. And they'll do that every day or every whatever days of the week it is. But school going there clocking in, sitting down, watching a t-shirt, write some shit on the board and write, right, ride. No one's teaching. Just literally, some of these people just there to catch a paycheck. And I've seen it. I was in school. You just see them there. Oh, they'll write the shit on the board, whatever.”
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“Just use the basics. I understand maths, yes, English, comprehension, all that kind of stuff, but when you come to like social studies and algebra and calculus, I'm like, are you going to use those in the real world? So folks go, my plan is right. When I have kids, I'm going to have a tutor that's going to teach them from the age at home from the time, like say maybe 9 a.m. to midday or 1 p.m. And they'll have an hour of homework and the rest of the day we'll just go on adventures doing shit. But then they're going to do gymnastics compulsory because I want to make sure they know their body, the foundation of athleticism, gymnastics and jiu-jitsu. So that way they're involved with other kids and not socially awkward.”
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“Fucking idea. Bro, I'm still waiting. Still, I'm like, when have I, in my life as an adult known what the fuck X is? No fucking idea a lot of useless information gone passed on to me in school, and I sucked at school because I was at memorizing. I didn't really learn anything. Dropouts as we do.”
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“Of course. That's definitely one of my main goals after this. I don't want to be that dad that's like, you know, I wake up, see my kids for like 30 minutes before I go to work. And then when I finish work, I see them like for hour, hour and a half maybe while I'm tired. No, I'm going to make sure I'm there from the ages of zero to five or six. I'm going to be like, what do you want to do today? Like literally, what do you want to? And I feel, honestly, fuck school. I don't know why we still even have this whole fucking outdated concept of school to just build workers because we know what the fuck school was made for. While we're pretending, we know school was created to create workers. Do you still know what the fuck is X?”
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“We work. But yeah, like I'm not a material person, but I do like material things. But it's hard to buy gifts for me because I found this as well with my rich friends when I was coming up. It was hard to buy gifts for them when someone they're able to buy whatever they want. So in that and that, I just look for someone who's caring, someone who really gives a fuck. That's the main thing. Do you give a fuck about me? Yeah.”
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“I just like someone who's caring. Who gives a fuck? Who really cares? And who wants nothing from me? That's the thing. It's hard to find. But someone who needs nothing. For me, I don't even celebrate my birthday. And I'm hard to buy gifts for because I'm not really a material. I love material things, obviously. But. Yeah, thank you. I'm sure you know.”
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“Dunto. So for me That's something I guess you just have to take it by a case by case basis. Yeah, case by case basis because you do find people who just some people play the long game, put it that way. I've had people play the long game with me even recently. So it's like, yeah, you know, there's love there and all that kind of stuff, but they play a long game because they see the value. And it's not just what you, it's what you bring to the table. And they get entitled. And I feel like that's not the way you want to be when you have someone that you're romantically in love with or involved with is like you don't want to be competing with them or have them feel entitled to what you have. I'm like, yo, you just got here. I beam made it. The fuck are you talking about? What do you bring to the table? I bought the fucking table.”
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“But I'll put it out there, boy. If he's like, nah, we're not doing that. Okay, cool. Because it just helps me. But if I had people around me who's like, okay, sure. Eventually, it just makes me more powerful not just like to think like, oh, yeah, you know, I'm the shit. I can say whatever I want. And that's not healthy, man. I don't think that's healthy for. Ego, you know? I just like having people like that around me because I feel like they keep me grunting and just remind me where I come from. And there's so many stories, man. Each of my friends in my group chat, I've known each of them over 10 years, but well over 10 years, man. And we all have stories we can kind of share from back in the day that just remind me where I come from.”
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“And stuff like that. I mean, you'll know this, it's lonely at the top, you know, but it's not if you bring the right people with you, the people that came up with you, the people that love you for you, you know, the people that know you from before you had money, before you were famous, you know, so I like to have them around to keep me grounded, to keep me grounded and just make sure I'm solid because they knew me before any of this shit happens. And, you know, it's hard because sometimes I have fallen to the trap of having people who just agree with me. Yes, man. You know? And even my boy chance, I'm glad I have him around because sometimes I'm crazy. I don't always have the best ideas and I'll have an idea. He'll be like, nah. I'm like, okay, cool. I just needed someone to tell me no.”
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“Because this is my life. This is how I deal with things. So once I kind of like go over that hump, I was like, oh, I don't have to match everyone's energy. So if someone comes at me at a 10, I don't have to raise my level up. I could, I'm just chilling. I'm listening to a podcast. I can just pause and be like, hey, what's up, man? How are you doing? And if they feel like that's a shit interaction. Cool. That's their prerogative. I don't care. You met me last night, like I'm in the streets in London last night. I'm showing love to everyone. I'm dancing. I'm talking to people. Mr. Ari. But that's a time and place. I'm taking pictures and all that kind of stuff. There's a time and place. If you catch me at the right time and place, fuck yeah, I'll show you love. I hate when people get entitled.”
2022-03-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Israel Adesanya: Becoming World Champion Was The Lowest Day Of My Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I was just drained. I was drained. So I just want to go home and chill. So I remember at the airport, at the hotel, I before I went to the airport, I just put that out there on the store just to be like, look, don't come at me with all this shit because it's too much for me to deal with right now. So if you come at me, just like, hey, what's up, bro? Big fan, can I take a photo? That's cool. And I remember that fight week, the week before the fight week, I realized I had an epiphany. I realized I don't have to match everyone's energy because that was a problem. I used to like, if you're a fan, you meet me. Now I feel, hey, even if I met, like I said, my cat just died, then I'd have to like raise my level up. Hey, what's up, bro? Do the whole song and dance and all that shit. I'm like, nah, I don't have to match everyone's energy. Because guess what? Hard pill to swallow. I'm not excited to meet you as much as you are to meet me. It's just a hard pill to swallow. And it's just my everyday life. I'm not excited to meet you as you are to meet me. And that's okay.”
2022-03-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Israel Adesanya: Becoming World Champion Was The Lowest Day Of My Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT