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#242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA

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Is There a System Behind This?

I wasn't very good in the beginning. So I didn't start getting good until the age of like 13. And so for me, I always, and this is maybe cause I wasn't good, but I was always like, let me go find the best people to wrestle all the time. Cause if you don't have that, you're never going to reach full potential either. Right? You have to balance these two balls at the same time. Like on the one hand a great champion has to hate to lose, like you said, right? But on this other hand, you have to have someone who seeks out challenges, right? The way you took these losses against people that

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