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losers have excuses
is it worth it is it worth all the hard
work mindset will take you
as far as you want to go in life
27th march 2010 i'll never forget it so
you should think about
that's birthday i can't lose here it's
going to be there everyone's going to be
there i need to put on
a clinic because at that time everyone
was saying i was the best fight in the
uk but then obviously he'd stop me
so if i'm like oh maybe maybe liam ain't
that good maybe he's just been found out
here
so then i was thinking have i just been
found out well sure these would have
been found out so i was like fighting
against myself
my own demons i had to stay mentally
strong to show that i were more than
that and then
in the first fight i sat down after
round one and my leg was in agony
and by the end of round five of him
still kicking my fight in the rematch
i couldn't feel a thing still but my
mindset was so mentally strong then
i think he could have hit me with an
iron bar in that fight and i wouldn't
have felt it
after the fight the ambulance had to
come and take me to hospital because i
passed out in the after party and i got
to us without staying overnight i had a
really bad concussion and that was
with how hard he hit me in round four
but i was in such a
mental focus that it didn't even have
any effect after the fight
if you want to be the best at you got to
be obsessed by it you've got to
give your life you've got to live it
you've got to breathe it willing to go
that extra mile just where certain
people are willing to go
anyone can come in a gym and kick the
pads and
spar and do this but when they're tired
it depends are they willing to do
another round they're going to get back
on the pads afterwards
when you can't breathe anymore you know
you've been hurt to the body in the
middle of
like around 10 or sparring and a fresh
opponent comes in are they going to get
out are you going to stay in and you're
going to keep going so
obsession is massively important in
anything not just fighting just in any
walk of life where you want to be
successful
i just used to get in there because i
used to love it i used to
walk around school and playground just
daydreaming about when my next fight
where i'll be sat in class not paying
any attention whatsoever all i could
think about getting out and going at gym
and eventually i started on the dinner
hour running from my school up to the
gym
doing some quick pads with richard and
then running back to school and that was
like my dinner hour and stuff like that
so i was obsessed by the sport
and i was obsessed with fighting when i
walked through this door i did not
want to just fight to like turn up to
fights and make up the numbers or
anything like i wanted to be a champion
and that was that
and i'd always stay behind afterwards
and after the class i'd go on the back
upstairs on my own
i used to use my did you calm me dodge
recorder and stuff and just filmed
myself to make sure
i thought my stance were okay and stuff
like that and that's like i think sort
of mentality that
takes you from being just a fighter to a
champion
i'm a first fighter at 14.
yeah no one ever questioned it because i
looked quite old from my age and and so
i got away with it
and then but i ended up like fighting
men so i were like 14 fighting men i
think when i was 15 a four 20
28 year old i think you were i knocked
him out
did never ever used to cross my mind
that i were fighting a fully grown man
that all the way which like this is the
fight and i i just loved it
it was after my 29th my 30th fight i
went 29
fights unbeaten in my 30th fight i
fought a thai champion
and um he was like elite level
top top level i never fought anyone that
good i was 18 and in round two i knocked
this guy down with a left hook and i
just fought he's just same as every
other fighter i'll finish him off now
and that's that
i went in to finish him off he survived
the round and then he got up in round
three four and five he destroyed me
and i mean he just wiped the floor with
me i remember when i dropped him in the
left hook
his eyes rolled into his head and then
he came back up and he started smiling
at me and he didn't have a gun shielding
and he had blood all over his teeth
i thought this guy's crazy and he just
he absolutely destroyed me
battered me and i remember after the
fight i was thinking right if i
want to fight these guys i need to be
able to know how they fight as well as
how
i fight and if i can mix both the styles
together i just said i was seeing a girl
for the time as well i've been seeing
her for three years i just
went home i'm sorry it's over i'm off to
live in thailand and
that way i just she was devastated and i
said to my mom with a mum off
i went on the 15th of december before
christmas so everyone was mad at me for
ruining christmas but i said
this i said i can't have this in my head
over christmas because my head is going
to go
i need to like go out there and make
sure and see if i can live
at that level i don't want to be like
the nearly guy i said i want to get that
level
and i want to be the one that is getting
in the ring knowing i'm going to win at
that level i don't want to be fighting
these guys thinking oh am i good enough
or not i want to get in there and know
so i just went out to thailand and i
learned to fight their their way and i
probably had about
15 fights there over the space of two
years and so i was fighting
really regular and i told my best best
experience in my life answer the worst
getting out of your comfort zone is
massively important and again that that
comes down to the same thing as
obsession i think
you can't just be comfortable in what
you're doing you need to be out your
comfort zone like in training you need
to be
in six or to eight weeks out of your
comfort zone otherwise when you fight
it's gonna be healthier
i said before i don't want to be like a
big fish in a small pond i wanted to go
over there and i went to a gym
called jittery gym and it had a lot of
thai champions in at the time and top
level guys
so i wanted to to live like they did i
wanted to train how they did
and um for the first like three four
weeks until i got used to it
it was hell i was living on a mattress
on the floor they had me fighting every
three four weeks
but yeah it was it got tough at some
points because i was out there fighting
for money as well
i was only 18 when i went i've not had
too much money saved up my body's a
bit banged up and i'm injured it didn't
matter i had to fight so that's what i
did
i just used to fight as often as i could
as regular as i could there's a big
gambling culture in thailand so if i had
a big fight out there they were probably
going to get some money gambled on it
they're going to be betting so if they
thought i want in as top
shape as possible then they wouldn't
whip me into shape and i mean like
they'd have me
up at six running and i'd be the last
one out the gym at 6 p.m at night and
then make sure that i were
on point like i said i was there for
money and i said right i'm going to
bet on myself when i saw if i didn't win
i had no money
so i had to win i had to win but at one
time i bet on myself and the whole gym
bet on me and i lost
and um i'd bet all my rent money on
myself and everything and i lost the
fight
and then three days late i was i banged
up badly and she
said look you ain't got no money what
are you gonna do i'm gonna fight again
so three days later i got flown down to
phuket one of the islands
and i had to fight again for my rent
money and i won that fight by knockout
in round three and i paid my rent for
two months then but yeah to fight three
days after having a really hard fight
i lost on points and to go down there
and have to do it again three days later
was
not nice
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my fears at the time were thinking i
wasn't as good as i thought i was
so that's why i wanted to go put myself
right i had to face my fears
i had to go to thailand and train with
these guys and fight them in thailand
because i thought maybe i'm not as good
as i think
i thought there's only one way to find
out and go over there and then i just
have to fight them every time i have to
train with them every day
and by doing that that brought me up to
the next level
these guys over in thailand they've all
been doing it since six years old
it's second nature to them so i'm trying
to catch them up so if i've got that
means staying late when everyone else is
eating dinner that's what i'm willing to
do
so i went out there and i faced my fears
but look where it's got me now it was
like the
end goal of all that was always more
important than
any fear i ever felt
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you can sit around and wait for stuff to
happen i can get out there and make
things happen and that is massively
important in any walk of life
it doesn't matter who you are or what
you do you've got to get after it you've
got to chase it you've got to make it
happen yourself because no one's going
to get gifted to you
you're going to have to work for it and
those people who are working and those
people who are just grinding and they
are
going the extra hour doing the extra
mile they're the ones that are going to
be
at the top losers always have an excuse
everyone feels pain there's no like
person out there as a terminator
everyone does it's just how you deal
with the pain that's what the
makes a difference strong mindset will
take you as far as you want to go in
life
a strong mindset and willing to grow
that extra mile and obsession that's a
good one that comes with
success being obsessed with whatever
you're doing will bring you success
everyone wants success they have to do
the hard work some people try and find a
shortcut
we should never want to try and find a
shortcut hard work should always be like
the
the main thing and you should enjoy how
hard you've got to work as well to get
there because it just makes it that much
sweeter in the end
i believe your mind's your strongest
weapon and your
body will yeah your mind will give up
before your body long ever does you just
need to tell yourself it worked like
david gorgans and people out look what
they do with their their
body and it's their mind that's making
them do it but it all comes down to is
the juice we're after squeezing is it
worth
putting everything else back in um or do
you just gonna quit and just let that be
like that obviously
as i got older and my friends are going
out and stuff i've had to miss a lot of
things like parties and
nights out and stuff like that but i
wouldn't change it for the world you
know
you can go out on the pace anytime but
like for the the life i've learned and
the
experiences i've had and stuff like i
would not change a thing i have
sacrificed a lot and i probably missed
out on a lot but i've gained a lot more
is it worth it in is the end goal worth
all the hard work
that you're putting through is it worth
dragging yourself out of bed when your
body's in pain
is it worth getting in there inspiring
with some
guy who's probably a lot better than you
but you're trying to better yourself is
it worth
round five when you're exhausted and
there's 30 seconds left and the fight's
even is it worth pushing yourself that
little bit extra
is it worth doing running an extra mile
is it worth getting up at six in morning
doing hill sprints
is it worth it and the answer will
always be for me yes
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