Khabib Nurmagomedov: belief

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…What kind of feelings were those? I’ve never felt anything like that again. Those feelings could only be experienced right there on that exact day, that very evening, with that opponent inside that cage. I’ve never had them before that night and never had them since. And I don’t think I’ll ever be able to feel that way again. I think Buvaisar said that these feelings, standing on the podium, becoming an Olympic champion, you only feel them in that moment when they announce you. You step onto the podium. That’s it. They announced you. You won. You leave. That’s it. You only feel them there. You don’t feel them anywhere else. And athletes live for those feelings. They train their whole lives for them. Do you ever think about that? That in our lives, if we’re lucky, we only get maybe one or two moments like that at that absolute peak.…

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