“I'm even more motivated, but it's just when you're the champion, you b...” — Merab Dvalishvili Quote

I'm even more motivated, but it's just when you're the champion, you become popular. You've got more distractions, more people. You have more opportunities, and of course, I have family, I have friends, I have teammates, coaches, neighbors. You have to split the time for everyone, which is hard, and I'm trying to deal with this, figure it out.

I fought Jose Aldo. I wasn't able to take him down, but I keep it striking and I beat Jose Aldo in striking. This means a lot. Maybe some people forget, but I beat Jose Aldo, and I wasn't able to take him down. I'm a complete martial artist, and I can fight wherever I want.

I'm healthy, I'm hungry, I'm super-motivated, I love fighting.

That's what excites me - fighting the next best challenge.

I shut down social media because I needed to shut out online distractions and engage with the people, issues, and work right in front of me.

Throughout all of life's little interruptions and distractions, I prided myself on keeping my work focused and relatively unscathed.

I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down.

There's a lot of distractions in New York.

I think that it's a benefit to have distractions because you don't overconsume yourself with what-ifs and you end up second-guessing yourself.