Khabib Nurmagomedov: belief

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…Well, what’s the philosophy here? That you gotta be busy all the time, working hard, doing something difficult. Yes, it’s very dangerous to give a child free time in adolescence. They should always be busy learning new information, improving, acquiring new skills. A person should always be busy. When you’re sixteen, well, what can be on your mind? You should constantly develop and improve. And by this time, you should already, I believe, have decided what you want to become. You should already be investing in what you want to turn into. By the way, you had several very good conversations with Nurlan, with Adam, which I highly recommend. In one of them, your brother Abubakar told a story that when you were young, there were several street fights, maybe many, I don’t know. He said he was the one who got you into it. You were kind of bigger, and he needed protection at that time. You were that protection. Can you tell us these stories? How often did you fight on the streets of Dagestan?…

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