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Kashiwazaki Sensei
“Kashiwazaki Sensei is my favorite of all favorites. He is what I would call a judo genius.”
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“Kashiwazaki Sensei is my favorite of all favorites. He is what I would call a judo genius.”
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01 / belief
“I think he just got third place in All Japan Championships, which is all weight categories.”
02 / belief
“I think if you asked him whether he was the greatest judo man in the world of all time, he would say, “No, I’m not.”
03 / belief
“I think that in the early days I tended to want to talk all the time and you don’t have to do that.”
04 / belief
“The most difficult thing I think for anybody is when they have to decide when to stop.”
05 / belief
“I think there’s the power element as well, that you don’t realize how when somebody’s directed in a particular way, then you have that kind of element of absolute power that you can only feel, like when Roger’s doing a technique, I think that you would only feel it if he did it on you, then you can feel it.”
06 / belief
“I think in the early days I didn’t think I was going to lose. I never thought it was possible to lose.”
07 / belief
“I mean, I think you’ve got to differentiate the two, but I would’ve loved the jiu-jitsu.”
08 / belief
“I think that judo-wise, he’s got to be one of the greatest because he had such versatility.”
09 / belief
“Only after they want to win by ippon. And I think that that’s the difference is they’re the ones that come out there and it’s a bit like when Tyson stepped out there, you knew what you were going to get.”
10 / belief
“I think some of the Paris tournaments are amazing because the crowd, they’re there, they’re on the mat, they’re all judoka, they’re well-educated to the sport.”
11 / belief
“I think great champions are made up of the people that handle it in the right way.”
12 / belief
“You know what? I realized that if I’m a miserable git, then she’ll get me into the gym.”
13 / belief
“I think that none of the fights lasted time going into the final. So I won fairly quickly and every match by ippon way before time.”
14 / belief
“I think there’s two kinds of commentating. You can commentate what you see and then you commentate what people can’t see.”
15 / belief
“You have to dig deep. And I think that that was the great thing about having certain European training camps were more physical.”
16 / belief
“You’re never going to be a normal person, as such. But I think you’ve got to do normal things.”
17 / preference
“Kashiwazaki Sensei is my favorite of all favorites. He is what I would call a judo genius.”
18 / evaluation
“It started in turtle, because I did an attack, came back out of the attack and then he went on to his front.”
19 / evaluation
“I got to stop single leg and double leg.” Because he was really quick. So strong as well, 90 something kilos.”
20 / commitment
“I was training to mask it and cover it. And that was probably my savior, because I remember I said to my wife, I said to Niki, “If I’m a drunk then I’m the fittest drunk in the world.”
21 / evaluation
“My nutrition was appalling and when I, it wasn’t as kind of readily available as it is now for the nutrition. And I would say that if anything lost me that final, other than the fact that I was fighting somebody was terrific.”
22 / commitment
“I mean, I do the commentary as well for the freestyle, and I will be at the Olympics for the freestyle and the Greco-Roman.”
23 / evaluation
“And then when 40 hit, kind of things started to fall off a little bit and I used to get either my hips or the legs and my knees. And I realized that I had to pick my practices and that rankled as well and I had to then just calm it down a little bit, otherwise I was going to be injured and I was going to be… It’s not a good thing when you getting older and you’ve still got the same competitive mind, but things change.”
24 / preference
“I’m not a religious person, but I like going to old churches because when I go into an old church, it doesn’t matter what the religion within the church, but there’s a reverence in there.”
25 / preference
“Because actually good defense, judo wise, standing up is with the hips as opposed to sticking your arms out and then sticking your backsides out there just to defend.”
26 / evaluation
“As we’re older and as I’ve become older, I’ve calmed down, but it doesn’t matter what I’m doing, it’s still that will to win.”