Lex Fridman Podcast / episode intelligence
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36 published records
01 / evaluation
“There is no selection process where kids can go and show themselves, so they can be noticed and get signed. I think Brazil and other countries, and of course Europe, they have it.”
02 / recommendation
“I love listening to his podcast, but I’ve never actually heard the two of you have a conversation together.”
03 / belief
“Penn, the second fight, I think, after the fourth round when there was a stoppage.”
04 / belief
“I think a lot of people listening to this podcast may not have watched Zidane playing live.”
05 / belief
“I think he’s one of the most self-confident people in football, in the world in general.”
06 / belief
“Let’s say I believe that to be at the top, the top tier, right? One of the best in the world.”
07 / belief
“Most of them, I think even if they don’t like Barcelona, they still recognize Messi’s greatness.”
08 / uncertainty
“I knew it wasn’t something I could get away with. So, you know, since childhood, I was lucky that my father always kept me close, and I found myself in this environment among fighters who at that time- … were, I don’t know, they just didn’t compete in America and Europe back then.”
09 / observation
“If a person climbing all the way to the top, if they can handle all of that, that already shows they have an incredibly serious mindset.”
10 / belief
“I think active fighters, retired fighters, wrestlers, athletes, especially those who competed in these weight classes, will understand what I’m talking about.”
11 / belief
“I think we could film a really good story out there. I’m not sure about a podcast, but I’m sure we could shoot a really nice vlog there.”
12 / belief
“I want to say that one of the things that makes Messi great, I think, is that he really had to live in such a shadow of Maradona, and especially with the World Cup.”
13 / belief
“You should constantly develop and improve. And by this time, you should already, I believe, have decided what you want to become.”
14 / uncertainty
“I never had that in my head, that I could get hit, that I’d get a scratch, and so on. I don’t know if you can call it perfectionism.”
15 / belief
“I believe that if you’re gonna be in this game, in this sport, you have to completely dedicate yourself to it.”
16 / uncertainty
“I don’t know if it’s okay to ask something like this, but I would dream of coming out there to Dagestan, and not just to Makhachkala, but to Sildi.”
17 / belief
“I think you felt it yourself that it was a bit different from the kind of grappling you’ve dealt with before.”
18 / evaluation
“I now realize interacting with my own kids how wise he was and how deeply he understood this. Because when a child is eight, 10 years old, and when they are just beginning to form as a person, it is important to have the right approach.”
19 / belief
“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.”
20 / belief
“Now I can go after him. But I learned so much from Cormier. Honestly, so much. As a person, a wrestler, and a fighter.”
21 / belief
“If you’re into history and you start reading about Dagestan, I think you’ll get completely immersed and be amazed by what a unique place it is.”
22 / belief
“You had Emerson. You had Kleberson, I think Roque Junior, Lucio, Edmilson. And beyond those superstar names, there were also very strong players who kind of stayed in the shadow of those stars.”
23 / uncertainty
“I don’t know why, but cameras get in the way for me because this sport, this preparation, it happens here, and that whole world where celebrities matter, it gets in the way.”
24 / belief
“Your fight with Conor, I think, was the biggest fight in UFC history. That’s for sure.”
25 / commitment
“I don’t want to give specific examples because someone might take it the wrong way, so I won’t name anyone.”
26 / observation
“Individually, he won the Golden Boot, top score in the Champions League, the Premier League, every major trophy. But the point is that at Manchester, he spent five years performing at the highest level under enormous pressure.”
27 / evaluation
“Because, you know, without a real love for this sport, you can never achieve any success.”
28 / commitment
“Either I had to meet up before my training sessions or I had to meet up after my training sessions. And I simply could not miss that evening training session because I had to train during the day from four to five hours, two in the morning and two to two and a half in the evening.”
29 / recommendation
“Not only I believe that, I actually do advise parents to motivate their kids this way.”
30 / preference
“And he never had to go anywhere to find a sparring partner because he always had one in the gym. So I developed by training with the older guys in the gym, the stronger guys, the better guys when I was young.”
31 / belief
“For example, when I lost my father, I remember thinking to myself, “If I didn’t believe in the Almighty, if I didn’t have faith in God and understand that it was predestined, that we all come into this world and then leave it, that no one stays here forever, that no one belongs to anyone, and we all belong to the Almighty, and that we will all return to Him, I don’t know how I would have coped with it.”
32 / commitment
“I looked up to him and followed his example, trained hard, and it was like, you know, a kind of a challenge to prove to him that, “Look, I am right here, Father, and everything you teach, I will take it all in zealously, worthily.”
33 / belief
“Because as a believer, I believe that there will be judgment and everything we have, everything we do, every action we take, we will be held accountable for it.”
34 / preference
“So many people have trained under him, from Frank Shamrock all the way to Islam Makhachev. So many fighters have trained under him, which makes things very easy for me because I have Javier Mendes by my side, and he can help me with so many things.”
35 / evaluation
“I believe that we both ended up there because we both, you know, hate to lose, and we both really want to win.”
36 / preference
“I’ve come to the point where if I haven’t trained someone for two, three, or four months, I don’t like to corner them because they didn’t go through a full training camp, and I don’t know how they’ll respond in the third, fourth, or fifth round.”