All language subtitles for Audio Extracts (Alistair) (ENG)

I'm very excited to be back

in MMA.

K-1 is fun, I'm really excited

for this tournament, the K-1 Grand Prix.

It is big, especially in the Netherlands and Japan.

It's a bit big all over the place

world, different from MMA.

I'm just excited to be back

in MMA.

I'm excited to be in the US

to fight.

I'm excited to defend my belt.

And I will do that with success.

And I'm excited to be with Bret

to fight.

He has a big mouth.

It's good to fight with people

who have a big mouth to say things

adjust.

I am now 29 years old.

I started K-1 when I

was 15 years old.

My first competition was when I was 17 years old

was, so I'm in the ring now.

This is my thirteenth time fighting.

I have always strived to get better.

And this is what you can see.

This is the result of hard work, of

fall, You have to break off your face, but you

must also get up.

And you always have to improve.

I think Red is missing that.

But you shouldn't understimulate yourself.

A competition is still a competition.

And I think that's the beauty of it

of sports.

Sports in general.

Because if you go into it with you

nose up, then you get it.

And that's the fun part.

So we have to put our teeth up.

I am Alistair Overeem, six-time world champion in kickboxing

in MMA.

Traveled around the world and now here for you

the tricks of perseverance from me

to learn.

If your scoring is excellent every day, then

you will see that your self-confidence and your

manifestation power grows through daily reflection.

This means you can be a winner every day

are.

You need that to gain that self-confidence

to obtain.

A winner every day makes the champion.

I am

Alistair Overeem, 43 years young, martial arts career has ended,

25 years of fighting, internationally at the highest level,

actually against the sharpness every time

of my cut.

Had a career in Japan for 11 years, then 10

lived in America for years, everywhere in Europe

fought.

Not South America, not Africa.

But a lot in the Netherlands, a lot in Europe,

a lot in Japan, more than 70 times in

been to Japan.

And what I just told you, at the

UFC fought for 10 years and my career there

ended.

I got into martial arts at a young age

age, I was 13 when I started

exercise again.

This actually kind of started, it actually started

because my brother urged me.

My brother was 4 years older, so me

was 13 and my brother was 17 and

my brother thought I needed more self-discipline

and should be able to stand up for myself.

So I had to go to the gym and...

actually started the sport under that name.

In addition, I was very much against my

brother looked up, who was 4 years older, he

did kickboxing and wrestling, so I wanted to do that too

kickboxing and wrestling.

He was 17 when he first started

was fighting a kickboxing match, so I wanted to go too

my 17th and preferably earlier

first kickboxing match fight.

My brother was 19 when he applied for it

first fought in Japan, with the famous organization

Rings.

I was also 19 when I went for it

first fought in Japan with the Rings organization.

So I followed in his footsteps and basically

I looked up to him very much.

So my brother has been a big factor

why I ended up in martial arts.

In my journey I have seen many challenges,

felt, experienced.

So the obvious are injuries, how do you proceed?

you deal with that, what happens then?

Yes, you are in pain, you can't do it

what you want to do, training is hindered, you

also suffer outside of training.

Well, then you start looking, then you go

You talk about it, your trainer then comes up with it

a solution, go to the visio, well this

do you.

There are different degrees of this, you have

visions that are very good, you have

also visions that are less good.

I was lucky that I did

always acted on feeling and yet always

ended up with the right visions.

I also rely a lot on feeling, on intuition

done about body care, so I made sure I

went to the vision every week.

I did have some kind of discipline about it,

or also self-walking.

I took good care of my body.

With injuries, if you investigate that, that

is often due to fatigue, so rest is one

factor, nutrition is a factor, aftercare, stretching

is a factor, you can of course also do it yourself

stretching, you can also roll yourself, massage yourself.

So I see that as a form of

self love and I have a lot of time for that and

spending hours, especially when I look back now.

It could have been more, especially more in it

the earlier years of my career, but on

at the end that was a very big part

by.

I enjoyed it, my body enjoyed it, and

therefore it was possible to have such a long

career, to still be fit for those matches

to enter.

In 2005-2006 I had a crash, what

was a crash, how do I describe a crash,

that is when several things are going wrong at the same time.

Crash 1, 2005-2006, one day word

I called, my mother has to come over, so

I pass by, and there comes the conclusion,

my mother has cancer, breast cancer, the worst form,

and doctors give my mother another year

to live.

This is of course a big shock for everyone,

so that was blow 1, facet 1 what

is against.

As a result, an oppressive feeling, an oppressive feeling,

motivation goes down, your mother gets up

dying, it keeps you busy, you are distracted.

But, there came a second crash, I had

with my then partner, where I haven't yet

so long a relationship, an unplanned one

pregnancy, I knew my girlfriend for 2-3 months,

and boom, she was pregnant, totally unexpected, totally

unplanned, but my feeling said, go with it

for, she's a good girl, so me

I have decided, of course after talking to the team,

with my mother, yes, I'm going to do this,

Well, then you are 9 months old

later, and then your baby will be there too,

and that is of course all very nice and

very wonderful, but my daughter Storm was a

hellbaby, and that was right at that time

wherever my mother had her diagnosis, yes,

I didn't rest well, I couldn't do well

sleeping, every night was a fight, waking up

be, bottle, difficult, cry, we had a little one

house, so it was a narrow wall between

the nursery and our bedroom, and that has

pulled a lot of energy out of me.

In addition, the training sessions continue as usual,

everything continues as normal, your body becomes overloaded,

you get injured, so you go more often

to physio, so it's kind of

chain reaction you end up in.

Apart from that, because it is of course a crash,

there will be a dead-on, I was in favor

first invested in real estate, I had looked at

what am I going to do when I earn percentages,

what am I going to do with that, and I had

found, okay, then real estate is the way, you

coins are in stones and then you can

some rent received from it, the value of you

housing is increasing, so it is a good one

investment.

So I bought my first apartment, that one

had to be renovated.

The renovation was calculated incorrectly, I had a

attracted a party that was not pure, miscalculated,

that was much more expensive than I thought,

and basically I was broke at the time.

That's very difficult, you're broke, so

you have to make money, and that was before

me fight, so matches, so those matches have to

keep going, but you don't sleep well.

And in the background you also have

once your mother, who has cancer, receives radiation,

hair falls out, so energy is low,

you don't sleep well, you get injuries, you...

must continue, and that is tough,

also because I was at the beginning of it

process knew this would take 1.5 years,

so 1.5 years head in the sand,

just keep going and everything will be fine.

I am very grateful that I have that ability

I have to bury my head in the sand

and to continue, and with time

I literally fought it out there, but that

has been a difficult time.

Have I lost hope or energy there?

No, I have always remained positive and creative,

and just worked hard.

These are also the three pillars that I

want to tell everyone, work hard whatever you do

you do, you need a direction for that

choose, my direction was sports, was martial arts, and

then you just hit it head on

the sand, keep going, be positive, because if you

you're a sawmill and you just walk

to be negative towards your fellow man or towards

your relationship or to your trainer, then come

you're not there, you have to be positive, that

is a switch that you can turn.

And third is be creative, so stay

searching, between the lines, but also outside

rules, looking for what can serve your purpose,

but also what can harm your goal, because

when friends of mine went to the club,

and went out, then I could know very clearly

when you go out, at night, smoke, cigarettes,

alcohol doesn't serve my sport, so that's what I do

I don't, and that creativity and judgment,

positivity, yes, pulled me through.

Well, I'd tell you, look, when I

was thirteen my brother took me to

the gym, and I had to learn to defend myself,

I needed more discipline, and you go

just go along, it wasn't a choice either.

So I was just deployed in the car,

I was thirteen, I turned 25

-30 year olds put, and I just had to fight

for my life.

Yeah, I'm actually not even a fighter.

I was just kind of a loser with one

glasses who sat behind the computer.

Eventually you will become a fighter.

And I was, say, what is it,

15, 16, then I started other people into it

to belly each other.

And when I was seventeen, I had mine

first match, yes, and then it said

just a killer, so to speak.

So, as I see it, adversity is what makes things happen

me stronger.

And there is such a hospital.

So I'm not afraid of setbacks either.

I'm not afraid of bad news either.

Bad news makes me stronger.

And that's a completely different way of doing it

to look at something that is annoying.

So an ice bath, you can actually heal yourself

simple make it stronger, just get an ice bath, go

just in it every day.

One minute outside to three minutes outside

to twenty-two minutes.

A lot of people can't do that, but

it starts there.

You are safe.

Fighting is completely unsafe.

So you want that in a safe way

do it, and an ice bath is too far, then

take a cold shower, cold shower.

But you have to, it starts with overcoming yourself.

Overcome yourself.

So do something you don't like

and then increase that.

Propagate.

You can do that in a very creative way

increase something every time.

But what I found was, and I have

I have now learned, because at the time I just did it

what.

Now I have more methodology in that, and

I look at it differently now.

Every day, except Sunday, Sunday is a day of rest,

but every day you hear, and Saturday optional,

but Monday to Friday, which is what I do now

do, Monday to Friday I am looking for the

resistance.

This keeps me mentally strong.

And resilient too.

So you look for that resistance, and I

I'm a bit of a weirdo in there

gone too far, I understand that.

But that allows me to do things.

I have extreme patience, I can go for a long time

in the cold, I am mentally very strong

because of that.

And when it comes down to it, you want to achieve something,

you will need strength, power.

Because we all want everything, but if

you don't have any assets, how do you go?

from a to B?

So you're going to have to do something about something

to build that up.

And overcome yourself.

So building up is one thing, but conquering yourself is one thing.

And actually they go hand in hand.

And participating in a sport is fun,

but you have to overcome yourself, push yourself.

And find your way.

Look, and what I'm doing now is now

I do it in all kinds of ways.

So now I'm going to take guitar lessons soon, sing

I'm just not good at it at all

but I'm going to do it.

Because I'm just curious.

But other things too.

I like to express myself

days and to grow in them.

And to raise awareness.

Motivation.

Let me first tell you about my motivation.

When I was thirteen years old, actually before

I started training when I was one

festering a bit.

A bit of biting, ringing a bell, bike stolen.

So I got a mountain bike from me

own.

Two months later, moved into the shed, bicycle

stolen.

Then I could walk for 45 minutes to...

go to school.

Three quarters of an hour walk back, every day.

It didn't take me long to figure out,

You know what, this isn't going to happen

Like this.

We had no money for a new bicycle.

So I just bought a bike myself.

Not very neat, in retrospect.

We also returned it later.

But yes, if you do nothing, you can

you can walk to school.

And now it was just another eight minutes

cycling there, cycling back in eight minutes.

So you have to take action, will

you can improve your situation.

If you don't do it, it won't happen.

And the world goes there for the rest

don't dwell on it.

The world is spinning very quickly on high

door time.

So yes, it does depend

the i.

I want to improve my position, so I'm going

to do something.

And that's something to think about.

So it started to fester a bit.

I was twelve or thirteen.

At that moment it was decided by my parents,

you are now going to live with your father.

My father was old school, very

strict, Jamaican.

So the summer holidays went that way.

And we didn't brake the bone between me

and my father.

My father is a difficult man, a lot of stress

at work, it didn't quite work out.

So I'm halfway through the school year, sometime in November

came back to the Netherlands, and then back in the Netherlands

to live.

I couldn't go to school in the Netherlands because

the school years had started and it was fun

said, you have to wait until the new school year.

So you can register again and then

you can go again at the end of August, beginning of September

school.

My mother came to me and that

came, that is of course not an option, you go

don't do nothing, so you just go a

looking for a job.

Well, I note in the desk.

And yes, with my idea, with my

lady behind the counter, yes we have something

very nice for you.

So I got registered in the system and

I had to report to the Prodent factory on Monday.

The Prodentfabriek was a kind of warehouse, lots of boxes,

many crates, many pallets, we run the belt.

Little did I know, I arrived, I had to

waiting in a waiting room, with everyone else, one

a bit of Turkish origin.

Everyone was a little nervous.

After ten minutes the foreman came in, yes

everyone walked along, everyone walked along.

And three were delivered to that station

work was done, four were arrived at that station

put to work, five were put to work

put.

No explanation, nothing else, we just got used to it

put in the work, you're just going to help there.

This event is such a traumatic experience

deployed me.

I also have the work for four or five days

done, I kept it up for one week.

I received four guilders 35 gross per hour,

but the image I had at the time is

very much burned into my retina.

Dirty environment, factory floor, old too, the factory came

from the Second World War, perhaps the First World War.

Pallets of boxes, an infinite number of boxes, useless

work.

Someone puts that box on the belt, makes it

opens the box, takes out ten packs of vapers

out.

Someone else has another box, stops there

five in a box, close it again,

piles up again, useless work.

And I remember what I thought then

from where did I end up, this is the

hell or something?

I didn't believe in God then, but I do now,

but for me that wasn't an option.

For me, I would rather die than that

I still end my days there.

So I kept it for five days and

I remember then I sat down for a moment

if I had to.

And then the foreman came again with one

piece of paper and said, hey, get up, continue working.

And I thought, this can't be it,

this just isn't it.

That feeling has been my motivation in all

my 94 matches.

So while I was fighting my opponent, it was

there is a bigger opponent up there.

And that was in the form of it

Become financially independent, so you don't have to worry

that you are no longer in that position

factory does not have to be there, but in other words it is

beat it financially and the system.

Because I fight the system, because it

system is going to be defeated, at least that's how I think

in the match.

So for motivation it would be good to

to see your enemy, your goal in three.

So you have an opponent, something you have done

should be, but you also have a larger one

goal, let's just achieve positive, and then

Do you also have a small goal?

A small goal is yourself, you have to be yourself

can overcome to do what you do

need to do, to then achieve your bigger goal, you

family, your well-being, your country, whatever it may

be, but you always have three enemies

which you will want to overcome, otherwise you will go

not get there.

To be honest, because I have everything

already experienced a bit after the matches, knock

I never minded going out.

I was somewhere else, I dreamed, I dreamed

always very nice, and then I woke up

and then I didn't even know what was going on

has happened.

The worst was, there are two kinds of bad,

actually three.

One is getting injured, is annoying, is not

nice.

Then you still get injured during the

contest.

I've had my face covered in it before or

for example, a few elbows, look in the mirror

I saw my own skull, my forehead.

My skin was like this and yes, blood everywhere.

That's not fun, because then you see

so you've assaulted yourself, then you have to go back to

the hospital, peeing, surgeria, things.

Everything will be fine again, but...

is confrontational, it's not nice.

So you have the injuries, injuries during the

contest.

Then you also have a number of competitions

you get very tired.

That everything is slowed down.

And that the sentence also comes out literally

go.

There have been a number of matches, then fights

so you against someone.

And especially in the beginning, in Japan

so you don't have drug testing.

So I thought, that was very noble, me

do that for a while.

Well, then you're fighting against guys who...

so can fight, so under pressure

to sit.

Yes, and then at some point it becomes

you tired.

And they can continue.

And then slowly you just notice, you feel

simply, it's not going to happen.

It slips from your hands slowly.

Fatigue increases, you start to sweat a little more

collect.

That is also a very bad feeling.

And I think a lot of fighters can do that

join in the conversation.

That feeling.

Try to get angry at the gym.

So that when it comes, it's not one

quite a surprise and shock.

But it can always happen.

You can always run into a hill

is just a little too slanted, a little too hellish.

And then you don't come, then you succeed

not.

That's how it feels.

So at times when I can't anymore

saw, and there are often plenty of them

been.

Hello, I'm only human.

You look, I'm completely done with it.

Then I found motivation again.

In the sense of, that factory is there.

This gave me great motivation.

But also, you have a voice within you

head.

And so you can influence that.

There are a number of things you can do

to influence.

You can influence your breathing.

And you can hear the voice in your head

to influence.

And the voice in your head is grateful

are.

Grateful, because there was nothing to be grateful for

are?

You just had a few taps.

But I have a great life.

I was able to buy a nice house because of it,

through my sport.

It has also been kept in perspective.

I earn my money with it.

I am not defined by this loss.

In principle, a loss is always possible.

And yet again that super motivation, the greater one

goal.

I want to beat the system.

That's a very important one, the bigger goal.

Or the greater enemy.

Because it kept coming back.

Came back again and again.

And in the journey it is

make it fun for yourself.

Because that is of course also a motivator.

Fine food, tasty food, healthy food, lots of travel.

For training camps, a lot of traveling for the training camps.

But also a lot of travel outside training camps, a lot of seminars.

So make your sport fun.

Look, the fighting might be a little less fun.

Winning is fun, losing is not fun.

Fighting itself is not fun.

Because it's exciting.

Spanning, hart, stress.

Automatic, boom.

What can I check?

My voice in my head, I'm going to do it

doing.

And my breathing.

Those are the two things you notice

can control that moment.

The things before.

Nutrition, training, tension partners, training schedules.

What you will train, content training, camp.

And then there are all kinds of things.

Frequency, timing, speed, power.

You can go quite deep into that

enter.

And I am also very grateful.

I've had a very long career.

And I stayed creative, I stayed positive.

And I could always find different facets where

you could turn around.

Finding buttons you could turn

takes you to victory.

Have an overview of the goal.

There is also the bigger enemy

important.

Your opponent in front of you.

Overcoming yourself is possible.

Overcoming an opponent is not possible.

Always.

Either you win, or you learn.

And everything as a goal is the greater enemy

defeated.

That has brought me a lot.

So losing in a sport doesn't matter

out.

It's not war.

It's not life or death.

It's just a competition.

You just get to lose them.

And a few blows doesn't matter either.

You get that every day at the gym.

In principle, a few injuries don't matter

out.

It is a matter of confrontation when you put yourself under

the blood sees several times.

But it's just blood.

And everyone has blood.

And yeah, okay, whatever.

The battle continues.

The greater enemy that remains.

A setback is a learning moment.

So setbacks are fine.

Of course, you don't just want to have setbacks.

That goes hand in hand with success.

So choose direction for yourself.

Make goals.

Work hard towards those goals.

There are setbacks during that process.

It happens.

We are all human.

Setbacks are learning moments.

You learn from that.

And you want to learn from it.

So what is learning?

Analyze.

What's happening over there?

To reflect.

What happened there?

How did that make me feel?

What will I do differently?

What were my other options?

What will I do differently next time?

And always reflect.

What happened?

Every time.

With every action.

With every setback.

So in this process it is very important

to put your ego aside.

Your ego is also an enemy that must be

be defeated.

When your ego gets in the way.

This is not possible.

That is not possible.

It does not work.

Style.

Ego gone.

You're going to do it.

I'll give an example.

I had a competition.

June 2018 with Curtis Blades.

I entered the match.

I felt I had prepared well.

Go to the match.

I don't remember where it was.

Chicago I believe.

So that was the match where I was huge

elbow on my head.

Forehead open.

Lost.

And I still remember.

After that match.

A week later I was back home

The Netherlands.

I sat in the garden.

Thinking about it.

A little bit of redefining course.

What am I going to do now?

I still had the bandage on my forehead.

The old team.

Chemistry was no longer there.

I already noticed that in the training camp.

Because training camp is all about chemistry.

You have to feel like you're doing things

learns.

And that you will win the match.

And I noticed.

Now looking back on it.

And then looking back on it.

That chemistry wasn't good.

Analyze.

The reverser.

Looking back.

How did that make me feel?

What happened?

I had a losing game.

How did that make me feel?

I didn't feel good about it.

Okay.

Why?

What exactly happened?

There was no chemistry.

So I sat in the garden.

And I was thinking.

What now?

And I picked up my phone.

And I have my opponent.

Curtis.

Which just got me on my a week before

forehead had been attempted.

Sent a message.

We were already in discussions before that.

Six months before.

Everywhere I was allowed to train together once.

And then our match was booked.

So that conversation fell silent.

And I had my phone.

Let me send Curtis a message again.

So I send a message.

Is it okay if I come in two weeks

Would you like to come and have a look sometime?

He answered.

Yes that's OK.

And two weeks after that I went there.

And a great choice it was.

Because I found a new home.

I found a training group.

A training room.

Trainers.

Die heel erg gededicated was.

And there was chemistry in that room.

The fact that I am there in that group

came.

Gave me renewed energy.

And renewed strength.

Renewed techniques.

Which made me go to competitions again in the future

to win.

So resilience.

Looking, feeling, analyzing.

But also determine the course again.

And go again.

Vigor.

That's when I went to Curtis

train.

Was my ego.

Put in a box.

Because of course you don't go near your opponent.

No fighter does that.

But I was able to get my ego under control.

I was able to train with my former opponent.

I could subordinate myself.

What an important move that was.

Because I learned again.

I got into an upward spiral again.

On the day I

To get it under control.

It's very important.

And if you can't control it yourself

gets.

Then it happens.

Then life is already doing it to you.

When I look back at my career.

My success has come through.

Be positive, be creative.

Work hard like crazy.

Out of your comfort zone raken.

Find an inspirational person.

And that's how you improve.

What it has brought me is literally the

world.

I am very grateful for that.

Following the right path is very important.

We all have a conscience.

We all know what is good and what

dishes.

That's that little voice you hear

steers a bit.

When you do something naughty.

Then you are not concerned with it.

That always requires more.

So it's very important to note it

to stay on the right path.

When I look at myself.

I always had the goals.

Big goal.

My wife in front of me.

My little goal.

Myself.

My ego.

And I could filter very well myself.

Which it did serve.

And what that didn't serve.

Eventually I learned that.

Be a good person.

Serves all three purposes.

And that is up to you.

You can do bad things.

We have that voice.

Going out.

Alcohol.

Party.

That breaks you down yourself.

For example, I have 2001.

Then I didn't take it all so seriously.

I got it a bit the hard way

have to learn.

The brawl.

The umpteenth.

Of course, I'm a fighter for a reason.

Yet another brawl.

The third.

That was 2001.

The third you just end up stuck in the Netherlands.

Just bam.

Provisional lifting is.

In the end I got six months and ten days.

For a simple brawl.

I thought.

I didn't take it all that seriously.

Before that.

But then I learned from it.

And thought.

Oh wow.

So this can happen.

That's why I missed the match.

I missed income.

I had the feeling too.

I'm wasting my time here.

And.

I'm kind of stuck between nothing.

It doesn't hurt anything.

The food is not that tasty.

For me it was a good moment of reflection.

For another six months.

Think about.

But I used the six months well.

I planned my first world title very carefully.

I made diagrams.

I did push-ups every day.

And the moment I get out of the preliminary

detention came.

I was also very driven.

About A.

Never to come there again.

B.

To become world champion.

And then C.

And.

What to make of my life.

Never again would I be in such a negative place

environment.

So again that setback.

Made it a positive learning moment.

There are several world titles.

I won.

I'll take you along.

Two Hard To Handle.

2004.

Strikeforce.

2007.

Strikeforce Defended.

2010.

K1 title.

Same year.

And three weeks after that, the Dream title.

And that together made 2010 my top year.

There I won three titles in two different ones

to play sports.

And that together were my six world titles.

They all had a load.

Every world title.

Or competition for a title.

Whether you win or lose.

But every match for a title.

Or every legend we fight against.

Is extra charged.

You feel that in everything.

You feel that in the preparation.

You feel that in the energy.

You feel that in the staredown.

You feel that in the moment

standing in the ring.

In the public media round.

Also the feeling afterwards.

Because after that.

This is an interesting one.

I always had the idea.

That when you devour someone.

That you took a piece of his soul.

And now I found out.

That it is still the case.

I found out.

And.

Obedient.

You take away some of your opponent's shine.

And that's on top of it for you.

And if you keep doing that so often.

Then you stand there.

Then you are at the top.

The moment you become world champion.

You feel top of the world every time you win.

You feel immortal.

You feel very good.

Euphoric.

Flinders in your stomach.

A bit of a feeling of love.

Something different.

But it's great.

When it's for a title.

How?

Then it's real.

You go up a step.

You feel it turning everywhere in your body.

You will earn more money.

Your status increases.

Your opponents also become heavier.

So yes.

I'm okay with that with the title fights

experienced extra.

Felt very extra.

Especially 2010.

Of course that was the year.

Three title fights in one year.

And from that I really noticed that my...

position in the world was anchored.

No and.

It was simply top of the world.

Make a goal.

Create a goal.

You have to have direction.

You have to know where you're going.

So a goal is direction.

Then you start working hard.

You put everything you have into it.

Everything.

If you stay down.

Then you move further away from your goal.

So you have to get up.

You have to take action.

If you don't, it will happen

not.

Provide balance.

Work, rest, relationship.

You also need to rest.

You also need to spend time with your parents.

To your friends.

To your little ones if you have them.

I have three girls now.

You want to spend time on that.

That balance is very important.

If you get out of balance she goes

have an impact on your ultimate goal.

So balance is very important.

That's something different for everyone.

But find your balance.

What keeps you in balance?

What keeps you off balance?

Have good people around you.

Also a very important one.

When you have all kinds of quidders around you.

Suppose you have four quidders.

Then you are the fifth.

You have to have winners around you.

You need to have people around you who...

have skills.

They know what's going to happen.

Who may also be serious about that.

So good people around you.

Also good people with norms and values.

Very important.

If I have norms and values, I create

a special point about that.

Because you have to stay on the right path

to sit.

If you go off that path and you

goes into drinking, drugs, rock and roll.

That might be fun.

But then the goal goes further away.

So you have the right norms and values

necessary.

And people must also resonate with that.

The team must be there for those good ones

norms and values.

Because why is that so?

If it's all good.

Bad people on that team know that.

Very important.

Very important lesson.

If you don't have that in order.

Then very slowly, corrupt people are tricked into it.

And then it stops working.

Then the balance is gone.

The direction is gone.

You better work hard.

You're not going to get to your goal.

Another point.

Keep your ego in check.

Your ego wants to eat fries.

Your ego wants to drink alcohol.

Your ego wants to look at another woman.

Once you give in to your ego.

Your ego will demand more.

It is very important to put your ego in it

to keep a check.

Your ego is a little child who...

you have to listen.

And not one that can create the service properly.

Then you will not reach your goal.

It's very simple.

Very important to check your ego.

If you can't.

Stop it.

Hold everything up.

And you can do that at the same time with the main goal

places

Actually, all three goals are equally important.

Small, medium, large.

Are just as important.

You have to put just as much energy into that

to make.

Keep the saw sharp.

That means you have to be critical and

to stay.

So about all those previous points.

Analyze, reflect on it.

Periodic.

Every day actually.

Every day, every week, every month.

Every year.

Does this still serve me?

Does this person still serve me?

I did that at a young age.

Then I was in the store.

I don't leave that much money.

But then I could buy something.

And then I started thinking too.

Do I really need this?

Nee.

And then I put it back again.

But you can also think about trainers this way,

spring tensioners, supplements.

Keep developing yourself.

Keep that saw sharp.

Stay on top of it.

I think those are the points

helped me.

In my 30 years of training and 25 years

fight.

So it is not self-evident that when you

at the top is that you are at the

stays top.

Actually, it goes without saying that when you do that

you have reached the top.

And we've seen a lot of it.

They're going to fall.

So they are at the top for a while.

And then they're gone.

And then you never hear anything about it again

she.

So getting to the top is one thing.

And then make sure you keep that saw sharp

holds.

And then you stay like that at the top

long as possible.

So you have tools that help you reflect.

In any case, you want to keep an agenda.

If you don't keep an agenda, you can do it

going to forget.

Because then you just don't know what's going on

happens.

Build in agenda, to-do list, reflection moments as standard.

Daily, weekly, monthly.

Have good people around you

have.

Because with that you also reflect.

And they cause your blind spot, that one

everyone has.

Everyone has a blind spot.

When you have good people around you

you have, they will help you identify your blind spot

identify and resolve.

Addiction never works with nothing.

So if you are addicted, that's okay

cigarettes or drugs, of course it goes without saying.

But the addictions you see become like

less bad cigarettes.

Of course that relaxes you afterwards

keeps you from your goals.

So it makes sense that even it smells

of cigarettes, and I have seen it at

my brother.

He actually smoked throughout his entire fighting career.

And therefore did not reach the top.

I liked my brother a lot

to learn.

And I am also very grateful to him, because

He got me into martial arts

came.

But later he became an example of how

it didn't have to.

And cigarettes were one part of that.

See, so it's very important to keep up

Check yourself for negative behavioral patterns

are in the system.

So they take you further away,

love your purpose.

Or that take you to your goal.

And then keep the saw sharp

to be able to look back on this periodically.

Whether your behavior brings you closer to your goal

or further away from your goal.

Telephone use is also an addiction that is not yet

has been well researched and is not yet well known

is.

But you also keep that to your goal

away.

If you spend endless hours on TikTok or Instagram,

you will not achieve your goals.

Okay, very simple.

Because which junkie has a successful life?

I don't know anything about it.

I think it is also important that

you analyze your own environment.

Your own friendliness is actually part of keeping things up

saw sharp.

See if people in your area share your goal

to support.

So they help you get closer to your goal

to come or pull that egg from you

goal down

I have said no to friends many times.

No, I'm not going out.

No, I'm not going to drink.

No, I'm not going to do this.

No, I'm not going to do that.

They thought I was boring.

But I just had the goal.

I want to beat my opponent.

That's why I beat myself first.

Ego is not there.

Get out.

And of course we had the greater security too

again.

We wanted to be financially independent.

We wanted to beat the system.

So it's very important to watch

to your social circle.

Does this serve my purpose or not?

Because if you fall into the wrong patterns

or is in the wrong circle.

So they can take you off your path.

Even if you don't have it clearly.

What I personally did was I always searched

people I felt comfortable with.

People I resonated with.

On the same wavelengths.

People with the same ambition.

People who also wanted to win.

And I stayed away from people who didn't

had ambition.

Or who had actually achieved nothing.

I always looked for the good people, the strong ones

people up.

And that's what attracted me.

Yes temptations.

I went to a party once.

And I've done drugs before.

But I always kept that to a minimum.

And that was just after a match.

Always after a match.

Because then I gave myself two weeks, two and a half

week.

Never again.

Maybe even two weeks.

Maybe even a week.

Sometimes I often had a lot of matches than not

at sometime.

Just go, straight on.

But usually I gave myself a week until

ten days.

Where I could eat a hamburger for a while.

And I could do my thing for a while.

Because you also want to be a bit social

know and see what is happening.

So yeah, that was a festival that you...

I liked it too.

I quite enjoyed it.

Enough to be able to let it go again.

You're young, so you want one too

just look and see.

What's up?

What is going on.

Many different places.

America.

Many cities.

Lots, lots, lots...

Yes, I saw some nice things too.

But I could always control myself

to hold.

Because, again, that.

Going out, drugs, alcohol is bad for the bigger picture

goal.

That it is always in my back mind.

And I always knew that.

It didn't feel good either.

If I did have a competition...

Then it didn't feel right to...

Yes, to go to a party.

So I followed my conscience.

I followed my feeling.

At one point I had...

This was in a later part of my

career.

Then I had the 85% rule.

So 85% of my diet was perfect.

15% was allowed, so I was definitely allowed

occasional fries with.

That was a rule then.

But, as the game got closer, it went

to 100%.

And that was actually kind of my...

So I had a 100% mode and

an 85% mode.

And very occasionally after a match

I let go for a moment.

Then I didn't think about it.

But otherwise I would just have standard in my

85% modus.

Everything I had learned.

So all knowledge.

And then of course it remains to learn, to read.

This is good water, this is good fruit,

this is good.

That is not good.

Because especially what is not good.

It is very important to know what

does not serve your purpose.

And you can make it as wide as

you want.

Also a very important thing to know...

that you get exactly what you want.

So if you want to be a perfectionist, then...

Is that going to work.

If you want to be lazy, then go ahead

that also work.

So it's exactly what you want, that

is going to happen.

And yes, apparently I am quite okay

go-getter.

And persistent.

Anyway, I can say, my fight

is now ready.

25 years of perfection, 30 years of training.

I won't fight anymore.

But I am now more perfectionist than ever.

And I do benefit from that

over the past 30 years.

A certain foundation has been laid there.

I fine-tuned it with some tools

have.

But now I notice that my focus is

is supreme.

It's all about awareness.

Yes, you can eat fries, but how

often than per week?

Or how many times a day?

Or how many times a month?

And be a little hard on yourself.

Because again, you get exactly what you want.

If you're going to live perfectly...

Look, too perfect is not good either.

That's why I thought the 85% rule was great

Good.

Because then your base is very high...

Still, you enjoy life a little.

And I think that is very important

to name.

Because if you start living like a robot,

the fun goes out.

And fun, I've noticed, is one too

facet...

what is important in your achievement

goals.

So you need a level of fun.

A degree of discharge.

So it's not just about accelerating,

accelerate, accelerate.

No, the 15% is also necessary.

Only, that 15% goes out when it

you don't serve.

With a competition it doesn't serve you.

Then you must be at 100%.

So then the fries go away

then off.

And the cookie and the thingy.

And then you go to 100%.

And I always mean that.

I was really in one with that match

exceptionally strong state.

And that's why I've been able to fight so many matches

and win.

Choosing the right partner is of utmost importance

interest.

Because behind every successful man there is a strong one

woman.

Your partner is a very important one

achieving your goals.

Because when your partner is not the right one...

or when the match isn't quite right...

or when that didn't bond well, click, no

good synergy...

break that down from achieving your language goal.

That's one of the secrets I have

have learned.

With the right woman by your side you can

you can achieve everything.

And you can extend that as broadly as:

you want it yourself.

So find and keep the right woman.

Because those are 2 different things.

Finding and keeping is priority 1.

And after that you could achieve anything.

That's what it looked like in my

top year.

I was in a relationship with a woman.

And that was my best at that point

relation.

Looking back.

Everything worked, everything worked, the door opened.

That translates in this way.

The butterflies you have here, they can

you use.

You can use that.

The passion you have, you can do it

use what you want.

And that translates.

That will translate into more success, more

sales...

more prestige, more money, more everything.

So finding the right woman is

crucial for success.

In your company.

Success in life.

If I had to start all over again

to start...

and would have to do it all again, want to do it.

Then I would have a very strong accountability group

to create.

So your team with whom you compete

turns on.

In any case, write things down with goals.

You will look at those goals every day.

So that is your moment of reflection.

Once a day minimum.

Maybe twice a day.

Once a week, once a month.

Keep your ego in control

holds.

Make sure you see your bigger enemy

and know.

What is your ultimate goal?

Where will you arrive in thirty years?

Keep the saw sharp.

That is actually part of moments of reflection.

But also be prepared to make adjustments.

A little less left, a little less right.

That person no longer serves my purpose.

That person actually serves my purpose.

So I'm moving there.

Make sure you can move and maneuver.

Stay flexible.

Don't get stuck in positions and ideas.

This can be both positive and negative.

For example, it is positive that you are going for the world title

wants to go.

While you have ten losses.

Maybe it's time to do something different

to do.

To make a major adjustment.

Because damage is real.

Your brain damage is real too.

After ten losses, maybe it's time

to do something completely different.

Make a one-year goal.

Then you break it back to a month

goal.

Goals.

Weekly goals.

Daily goals.

And share those results on a regular basis.

Preferably every day with your accountability partners.

With that group you are competing with

go.

Who has the same mindset.

Have the same holiday.

And who does the same with you.

And you will benefit immensely from it.

Isn't it in the short term, is

it in the medium and long term.

Also spar with the accountability partners or goals

be realistic.

We can all want to be kicked out.

But hey, that's only for one thing

a little left.

So spar with the people around you.

Who know their stuff.

You always want to have them around you.

To see whether those goals are feasible.

And keep the saw sharp.

Periodically review and adjust what is necessary.

By keeping track of your daily goals.

Reflect on that.

So you can keep track of everything you do

one day.

If your score is excellent every day.

Then you will see that your self-confidence grows.

Your manifestation power is growing.

So what you write down happens.

And every day you do this.

It gets better and better and better.

And it starts low.

But that confidence is here.

And your manifestation power.

You'll get here eventually.

And then you can literally do anything.

It starts with that first day.

It starts somewhere.

If you don't do it, it won't happen.

And that's why you do it.

And it happens.

By reflecting daily.

And I do that every day.

Sometimes I do it twice

per day.

I also do it every week.

I also do it monthly.

I also do it every year.

Several years of planning.

This means you can be a winner every day

are.

And you need that for self-confidence

to build.

A winner every day makes a champion.