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  1. “Yeah, I think in terms of Khabib and inspiring a country, is it possible that by staying true to the values that he had his entire career and getting to the zenith of his art form and still doing it in that humble way? Isn't it possible that that inspires?”

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  2. “I'm not sure in Brazil. But when he tried to do that, Khabib, you could tell that he just was not going to get in Khabib's head. Khabib was unflappable. But there is, there is definitely something great about how he moves people. You know, the Irish are like, I mean, Connor's walkout music, like for people from Ireland of Irish descent, like that shit is very deep. You know, that it's very emotional song.”

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  3. “Very good. And I'm with you on basically everything you said. I think that there's greatness to that. And I think that he understands how to sell a fight. And I think what he did to Jose Aldo by getting in his head helped him win that fight. He insulted Jose Aldo and his country so much that he knew Aldo was going to come forward right into that left hook”

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  4. “The people that came from Ireland to see Connor fight that night single-handedly set the market for hotel room prices in Airline tickets to Vegas that weekend. These motherfuckers were all dressed like Connor in the stands. They had wool suits on and big beards and the whole thing. I mean, they might probably wear pocket watches. I never saw more people trying to be someone else. Never saw more people try to be someone else. I mean, there's a level of is there a level of greatness in that? I mean, I don't know how to like parse all that out.”

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  5. “So let me comment on all those, if I may. So, I was at the Chad Mendes Fight Live. And there was a jujitsu tournament. We're out in Vegas. And so me and my best friend came out and we got some tickets. That night was supposed to be the first Aldo fight. Aldo got hurt like right after I bought the tickets. They pulled Chad Mendes in. He was a little bit out of shape. Whatever. You still got to fight the fight. I don't want to use that fight as evidence to Connor's greatness because, you know, they pulled Chad Mendez and he was like hunting and drinking beers in the woods and was a little out of shape. But if you want to talk about greatness that surpasses your in-ring accomplishments, I was in the stands that night and”

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  6. “Anyone who's going to sit here and tell me Connor McGregor is not a good grappler, go grapple. Me see you grapple him to that point. I'll also say a lot of people will use Conor McGregor's X-Guard sweep on Nate Diaz as evidence to his high-level grappling in that fight, to which I would also counter. Nate Diaz didn't fight that off because he knew he was so much better at Jujitsu off the bottom that he didn't even care if he got swept. So is Conor McGregor innovative? Absolutely. Is he one of the best fighters ever? It's tough to say because he's such a cash cow that he was fed people. I firmly believe. No one who put that Conor McGregor Kabib fight together thought Khabib would win.”

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  7. “His movement, his distance, and the way he sets people up for the straight left hand while you're circling away from it and he can still land it, which is what he did to Chad Mendes. Hit him with a straight left while he was circling away from it. That is something that is very beautiful to watch. And sometimes people see the kicks and they see all the flashy snap kicks and the side kicks. All that stuff is doing is setting people up for the left hand. It's all it's doing. It's you're corralling people. You're funneling people or you're leading the dance and you're bringing them to a spot where you know you can land that left hand and his ability to do that is masterful. People constantly shit on his ability to grapple and, you know, because a couple of his losses have been to guys or grapplers, but they've been to really good guys.”

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  8. “longer arms than someone his height probably normally has. And his movement is just so fluid. He's so athletic with the hinges of his body, the knees and the hips, and the swivel of his body, which is also the hips and the shoulders.”

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  9. “I would say that some people know and some people don't know is that Connor's base is in karate. And the karate style of Connor McGregor, Stephen Thompson, of Lyoto Machida, that type of distance management, a lot of times we think as martial artists, we think that the sport version of the art we've chosen to pursue somehow taints the authenticity and the effectiveness of it. But point karate is what led to that in and out distance management style of Connor, of Lyota, and of Steven Thompson. They all kind of use it a little bit differently, but they use it very effectively, all three of them. And that comes from a world of trying to kind of like step in, land contact on you for my point, and then get back out before you can counter strike me, right? And that's where that comes from. Connor is blessed to have.”

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  10. “It's about the... How Connor McGregor fans are very emotional and Connor McGregor detractors are very emotional. I think fans become very emotional. They become cheerleaders of someone like Connor McGregor or Donald Trump because they see that person exhibiting the qualities that they themselves lack. And so they become cheerleaders for that, right? And I think that for the most part people who are detractors of Conor McGregor's, they're not really Conor McGregor detractors. They're detractors of Connor's supporters. There's a beef that they have with the people in that bucket, right? Like there's not really a problem.”

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  11. “Think first, I'll answer in two parts. I think, well, I'm not going to answer the first part, it's just a comment because you didn't ask the question.”

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  12. “I understand what you're saying about if this happened, if that happened, but I mean, you could say that about every single combat sports event ever. If Sphinx is hook land landed on Tyson, maybe that fight didn't end the way that it did. But you know what? It didn't.”

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  13. “And I believe that Connor would figure something out and fight number two. I think, but I also thought that Gagey would give Kabi problems where it wouldn't be a matter of I'm going to out-wrestle Khabib or become better at defending his wrestling takedowns. Connor would have figured out a way to not get wrestled, I feel like. He's constantly changing. He's constantly evolving. And whether or not people realize it or not, I think Connor's one of the better overall athletes in MMA just from looking at his body and his movement and the way he shaped. He's got a very tiny waist. He's got really pronounced glutes and shoulders. And I think he's a real athlete. Whereas a lot of guys in MMA are not for real athletes. They're just good at one of the things that makes up MMA.”

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  14. “But when Connor came on the scene, I loved Connor because I'm an Irish American. And I want to support him and things like that. And he was good fun. He got to be, for my personal taste, he got to be too much. All the people could be has fought, I would never fight Connor again if I were him. And here's why. And I said this about the Diaz fight. Nate Diaz, who is one of my favorite fighters, has fought the exact same fight for 12 years. Connor will switch something up to give himself an edge.”

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  15. “You only need one really, really, really good piece and the other pieces are complementary pieces to get you to where you're the strongest. And if you want to tell me that Khabib's not the greatest MMA fighter because he doesn't have really slick striking, you can make that argument. But what I can tell you is Khabib has good enough striking to get him to his grappling where he is clearly the best guy at 155 they've ever seen So does that make him the greatest fighter in that division or not? To your point about the foil, they wanted Connor to be his foil and he just manhandled them. I mean, he wanted that to happen. It did not happen.”

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  16. “To answer the question about being fully retired, I don't have any idea. I can't for a second pretend to. Think that I understand the way that people from that part of the world think and respect their family and things like that to an American who says, oh, I promised my mom I wouldn't do it. I mean, I promised my mom I wouldn't do a lot of things. I went right out in the fucking back door and did them. But I think that that means something different to people in different parts of the world. So I have no idea what kind of weight that carries. So I can't answer that. I can say a lot of times when people think about great fighters, they think about the aspects that make up MMA. Like they think of MMA as a pie and there are all these different pieces that make up for make up the pie. And how good is this piece and how good is this piece and how good is this piece? When the fact of the matter is.”

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  17. “But at the end of the day, when you look at someone's career in the UFC, Financially, there's a handful of people that make real money. Everybody else makes nothing. There's a handful of people that make real money. So did that loss cost him in the near term? Sure. But when you look back on your life, you're not going to look back on that loss as something that derailed my life financially and I never recovered from it. That's not going to happen. Like the sad thing is unless you were a champion and most people are going to be forgotten right after they're gone. Most people will be forgotten. It's just so hard to quantify that, but it's an experience. And like when you're in that moment and you're one of the people like intimately involved in it, the value of that experience supersedes any financial gain.”

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  18. “It certainly was one of the greatest displays of just dogged effort from an underdog who was out experienced and probably outsized. But I mean, like you just, Kyle's one of those kids you're never going to tell him he's out of a fight. He has something you can't teach. And I've seen tons of people with more physical attributes and they're just mental midgets and they got a million dollar body and a 50 cent heart. And Kyle is not that. And you can't teach it no matter what you do. But that was, I would say like my career in combat sports, which spans, you know, if you want to go all the way back to like wrestling, like that was one of probably the greatest experiences I've been a part of. Bittersweet sport. She's a fickle mistress.”

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  19. “The performance itself, I'm not a fan of moral victories, but if ever there was going to be one, that was one and when the fight was over and I grabbed Kyle like they hadn't even been to the center of the cage yet and I just hugged him and I said you're my fucking hero and I remember being very emotional about that that I was able to be a part of that”

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  20. “I can remember like right after there was so much excitement in the air during the third round. And I remember being in the corner and like I was so excited at the end of it that I had forgotten what happened in the other two rounds. I didn't even know. And I looked to Sean, one of the other cornermen. And I think I said to him, did we win? When you rewatch the fight, clearly we didn't win the fight. I mean, we lost the other rounds, but I got so caught up in that moment. And then I just remember like I was so in awe of his performance that like I forgot what was going on. And it's so hard to not be a fan at that moment and to stay within yourself and try and like coach. But then what the fuck are you even coaching at that point? It's like we're rumbling. We got 30 seconds. We're trying to win here. And I remember like.”

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  21. “Yeah, I mean, he's from Gloucester. It's like you could have dragged him off the docks three hours before the fight and said, hey, you want to go fight? And he would have said yes.”

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  22. “It's in retrospect. I think that at that time, we were playing with incredible house money. Kyle was a gigantic underdog in that fight. Zabat was unstoppable. I think people were probably picking him to finish the fight in round one. I think at that point, no one had ever gone the distance with Zabit. And knowing certainly had put that kind of performance together. And I think Kyle put the blueprint out there and retrospect, when I look at the last round, yeah, there were things that could have been done differently. But we're playing with House Money at that point. Like, I mean, let it fly. You get to a point where you've got it, you're down three rounds and there's 20 seconds left. You got to move all your chips to the center of the table. And, you know, see what happens.”

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  23. “that the emotion and the fun of it gets in the way of his technique and probably has cost him a couple of wins and so that's one of the things we work on with him right now is like staying within yourself being a professional taking your time to download the information in round one and then starting your fight in round two”

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  24. “No, it was in New York. It was in Brooklyn. I've been in a lot of arenas for a lot of different sporting events. That's one of the loudest things I've ever heard when he did that. I was going crazy. And you ask about that being like taught or not. Kyle is so much like that that I have to try and tease some of that out of him to pull it back because he's also so very technical when he wants to be.”

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  25. “He's a beat got tired. He cuts a tremendous amount of weight. I can't see him staying at 145 forever when they start giving him five round fights. I don't even know if he's had a five round fight yet. He may have, but I can't see him staying down there. The guy's like 6'1. Guys, he's a giant of a guy. So Kyle pressed forward there and he said he felt that there was no power left in Zabit's hands. And so he felt fine. And I think part of it was he fed off the crowd as he moved forward. He wasn't taking a lot of damage. Like the punches weren't staining him. He started walking right through them.”

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  26. “This guy's a really good wrestler. Let's think about avoiding the wrestling or being a better wrestler. And I think that. The difference in skill is so great, those are both the wrong answer. If a guy who's a really good wrestler wants to take you down and you don't have a lot of wrestling experience, he's probably going to get you down if he's got a good coach, right? So you have to deal with that to then say, I'm going to then learn in eight weeks how to wrestle better than a guy who's been wrestling since he was eight years old is also a bad idea. So what we concentrated on for that camp and it worked beautifully was not getting caught in chain wrestling. These are the takedowns you're going to get caught with. This is how to not get caught with the next step while you're defending takedown one because it's the chain of techniques that are going to get you fucked, right? So we talked, we did a ton of work on getups and breaking the hands from the various takedowns. It was a while ago now, so I don't remember exactly the techniques we worked on, but we concentrated on defend the first takedown and stay out of the chain. Don't get chained into a bunch of wrestling techniques because you will be out wrestled. And that was really successful. And then the third round, Sabit was tired.”

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  27. “We get that fight. And I said to Kyle, I was like, look, this kid has been training martial arts since he was three years old. There's not an area where you're going to out technique him. And so we've got to now channel some of that grit that we know you have. This is an opportunity to showcase it. And I don't know how long I did it for, but because Kyle's much shorter than Zabit. So for a good long while, while we're training for Zabit, I didn't even say anything. And I just had clips of Mike Tyson training on the TV in the gym and the head movement. And I didn't even mention it. And then we started to like get into it and talk about, you know, getting inside the length of the longer fighter and things like that. And we kind of, which when some people train MMA, they say, okay.”

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  28. “I don't remember the exact score, but Kyle could have won the third round had he done a couple things differently. But I do believe in the fourth round, I think Kyle would have won a fourth round. And I think maybe even won the fight. And if there would have been a fifth round.”

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  29. “put the blueprint out there on how to beat to beat Which is pressure him and try and drag him into the late rounds. You notice that later on when Calvin Cater fought him, they wouldn't give him five rounds. They wanted five rounds. And Zabat's camp, from what I understand, would not agree to the five round fight.”

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  30. “There's something about that. And so now we're more talking about like the internal attributes as opposed to the external physical attributes. And those are the things I think that you cannot teach. Those things, you come in the door and you either have that or you don't. I think we talk about this all the time. And this is one of the things where my mind changes regularly, like on what makes a fighter, is it born or is it bred? And this week I'm of the opinion that it's in you. And maybe it's in you and you suppress it and people can tease it out of you. But I don't think you can make someone who doesn't have that seed in there. And I don't think you can turn them into that great warrior with that level of grit and mental toughness. Now, when that fight, when Kyle Foot's a beat, it's a unique situation for both guys. It was kind of a later replacement fight for Kyle. So beat Starr was on the rise. And Kyle.”

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  31. “You can have a great performance without being a great fighter. Not saying neither of those guys is a great fighter, but to answer your first question, I think that having one or two great performances is not necessarily mean that you are great. I need a larger sample size. I have no idea what that is. I don't have any idea what that is. And also How much weight does toughness have when you're thinking about the criteria when you define a great fighter? That's a good question. And I don't have the answer to it.”

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  32. “No, because it's too easily manipulated by the people making money off the fights. So there was a great quote one time when UFC was coming to prominence and Vince McMahon from the WWE, he said, you know, the difference between what we do and what UFC does is that When we have a superstar, I can make sure he stays on top until he's no longer a superstar because we have predetermined results. The UFC can't do that because they're actually having fights. Well, it's true and false. You can't do that, but you can give your superstars the most favorable matchups to keep them on top for the longest. So people always talk about title defenses as if the guy they're fighting, the challenger, is always the person most deserving of the shot. And it's just not true. So I don't put that much stock in it.”

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  33. “I think in an incredibly short sample of his prime, it's got to be Anderson Silva. And I think you have to consider discussing Lyota Machida for his unbelievable manipulation of distance. Which is something that people don't really talk too much about in terms of fighting unless you're someone in the sport. His use of distance and the ability to like what we call pop out and make you miss by one inch so that he could follow your fist back in as you retract it and it hit you over the top. A thing of beauty Anderson Silva, when he became a counter striker, when he got to his prime in the UFC, that was a thing of beauty. That was a thing of beauty. So I think definitely those two guys and Marilla Bustamanti's got to be the third guy.”

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  34. “Not mine, but I'm someone who's like intimately involved in the sport, but it colors everyone else's. Same with Anderson Silva. I don't think Anderson Silva doesn't want to fight in like seven years or something. That's a guy who in his prime was one of the best fighters ever.”

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  35. “At that time, the great heavyweights were not really fighting in pride and they didn't really exist yet. And by the time he fought a really good one, Fabricio overdoubt, he did get submitted there”

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  36. “Right. And so when people debate the level of greatness of Mike Tyson, that's one of the things they say. Like he didn't fight a lot of killers in their prime. I think you've obviously got to say in that conversation, I have a really difficult time keeping George St. Pierre out of the conversation only because He was able to beat you with anything. He could out jab you. He could out wrestle you and he could submit you. The problem I have with Fador is his career also took a drastic turn towards the end. When he was fighting in pride, he was doing a lot more grappling. And then he just started casting that overhand right at people. And his game kind of changed at that point. You can't take anything away from his greatness”

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  37. “And when you talk about a fighter, the other thing that really a good fighter needs to become great is a foil. And so many fighters don't have a foil. That's one of the biggest attractions, I think, of early Mike Tyson's career. He didn't have a foil. He had no one driving him. And by the time he did, by the time he had a foil in Holyfield, his career was in a different place.”

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  38. “Was a guy who could wrestle And that was a guy who had great jujitsu. I wasn't great kickboxer, but at the time he didn't need it. Fought everybody and gave everybody a run. I think he's probably one of those guys who's got to be considered”

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  39. “Think one of the things you want to think about is strength of opponent at the time you fought them. So for example, fighting BJ Penn in his prime and beating him is far different than beating BJ Penn last year, right? So to say you have a victory over BJ Penn is not the same given frame of when it happened not to take anything away from anyone who's beating BJ Just use that as an example of someone whose career went into a different direction. I would say The guy who I think is probably the best that people are the least familiar with would be Marilla Bustamanti. And I think he was a guy who was one of the guys with the first really good physical build for MMA, which I think is narrow from the chest to the back and long shoulder to shoulder and kind of sinewy made out of steel cable. That was a guy who could box.”

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  40. “And took on this much younger guy, beat the living crap out of him, and then put his foot on his throat, and then didn't even kill him in a show of ultimate power for the time. So I think.”

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  41. “There was a guy named Dioxippus, whose The fourth century And he was such a badass that in the Olympics in 336 BC, no one even showed up to fight him in the pancreation event. Nobody even showed up because he was fucking everybody up. Years later, he was retired. And this crazy Macedonian dude came there at some dinner for Alexander the Great. Everyone's chilling, drinking, you know, whatever they were drinking out of their chalices. And this Macedonian dude. Threatened him and challenged him. So Dioxpus said, yeah, man, we'll throw down. And, you know, they set the time and the place. Macedonian dude comes out like body armor, spear, shield, all this other shit. Dioxopus came out absolutely naked with a wooden club.”

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  42. “And your chances of that increase when you take it for granted and you shit on people. But when you work at it, the chances of that decrease. It's never going to be zero, but it decreases. And when you do that, when you're the person and you're trying to maintain and you're trying to work at the relationship, you got to make sure that both people are working at it. Otherwise, you're just a fucking chump”

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  43. “When it dies, you know, we're all human beings. We all, you know, have, you know, we're all here and our body's working the same way. But you start to chip away at this beautiful thing. You buck conventional courtesy and things like that.”

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  44. “I think it's important to understand that everything is fleeting when you don't put effort into it. Almost everything will be fleeting. If you don't put effort into it, most people will get fat and lazy. If you don't put effort into something you're going to not be good at playing guitar or playing bass, you've got to put effort into it. The same thing goes for a relationship. The awesome part of it, that like love part, that dies soon and early on in a relationship because it's so good that we think we don't have to work at it. But you do. You have to like keep doing the things and you got to keep things new and crisp and fresh. And, you know, when you Different people probably feel differently about this, but like. I don't know, you walk around your girl and you start like farting and stuff, like that's when it all dies.”

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  45. “No, I'm not afraid of commitment. Anyone who says they're afraid of commitment is full of shit. You know what they're afraid of? They're afraid of commitment with that person. What they're afraid of, like, no one, when someone knocks you on your ass and they come into your life. And you're flushed with all these emotions. You're not worried about, oh, I don't really like commitment. No, because they've knocked you on your ass. You want to be with them. You want those things. The two most alive points in your life I think people feel is the euphoria of a new relationship and then the loss when that love is gone. You'll never feel more, I don't think, than in those moments in your life.”

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  46. “Just when you're letting someone know how much you dislike them, that can be off putting to the person receiving that message. And when you tell someone how much you care about them, it can also be off-putting to the person, depending on how they view their relationship with you. But it's still important to get it out there. Like you shouldn't hold those things in because you're worried about how they'll be received or if they'll come back at you.”

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  47. “No, no. I'm an extreme person and like my emotions are also extreme. And one of the things I concern myself with, maybe this is philosophical and martial arts warrior soldier type related stuff is like, I don't want anyone, if I die tonight on the drive home, hopefully that doesn't happen. I hope that no one is left questioning how I felt about them. And people I don't like probably are not questioning that. And so the thing that I've had to learn how to do later in life is to tell the people that you care about, that you care about them. Each thing can be equally off-putting to the receiver of the message.”

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  48. “It's great to want to meet people and say if we meet and some sort of a relationship develops, I'm willing to run with it. But I'm not meeting you, hoping a relationship develops. I think you kind of put the cart before the horse in a lot of those situations. It's like when guys meet. Like no guy goes out and is like, I'm looking for a bro, right? Nobody does that. You go to the gym and you run into a bunch of dudes and the next thing you know, someone's cool and they want to talk about fighting and you're fucking shotgun and beers and all of a sudden you got a bro.”

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  49. “Okay to want to be in a relationship, but you can't want to be in a relationship so bad that you take someone in who fits the suit. And it's like, oh, our schedules kind of work out. You live near me and this and that and the other thing. Because the logistics of a relationship are not always perfect. It's what matters is when the two people are together. That's the perfect part of it.”

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  50. “I think that if you really want anything, you've got to be prepared fully to be the exact opposite. If you're a person who's looking for a relationship, the only way you're going to get in an awesome relationship is by being comfortable, being alone. Because that's the risk. If you're a person who's driven by money, you got to be comfortable being totally poor because that's the risk, right? And when you're constantly hedging your bets, you're never all in. You're never all in on the thing you're trying to do. A relationship has to complement your life. You can't say”

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