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Robert Whittaker says the power difference between light heavyweight and middleweight wasn't what he expected: "I trained extensively for months with the impression that I was going to fight a boogeyman and that every touch of his gloves would send me to sleep. Any time I jumped into sparring... show more

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#YUNHO said he was in the car with #SEONGHWA when his Lee Mujin Service came out 🥹 🐶: Seonghwa-hyung was sitting next to me, I was watching it too, and so.. he had his earphones in and was monitoring it. And while he was monitoring himself he just started smiling. And seeing him smile like that, without me even realising it, made me happy too? Yes.. I guess I felt really proud. There were some parts where they commented and spoke in between (the songs) too, and.. I feel like that too sometimes so I understood, that feeling of being proud of himself while watching. And also, I witnessed him preparing for this so.. and while he was watching it, I was next to him and he was just like…(imitates him looking down at the phone with a proud smile)… smiling. And I thought, ’Ah, thankfully he must be satisfied with how it came out.’ And so I was like that (smiling) too while watching, it was nice to see him like that #성화 #윤호

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Jaylen Brown on how he felt physically after missing the last two games due to Achilles tendinitis: "I felt ok. I felt fine. I had a couple of plays where I took some hard falls, but overall I felt fine. I'm just trying to get my feet up under me and just maintain my balance and stuff like that. I feel like I missed a lot of easy shots even at the rim. Uncharacteristic, but you shake it off and move on."

Jaylen Brown on how he felt physically after missing the last two games due to Achilles tendinitis: "I felt ok. I felt fine. I had a couple of plays where I took some hard falls, but overall I felt fine. I'm just trying to get my feet up under me and just maintain my balance and stuff like that. I feel like I missed a lot of easy shots even at the rim. Uncharacteristic, but you shake it off and move on."

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🚨| Sir Lewis Hamilton: "It was a really good session in general except for the last lap." "I've been so so happy with the work that my engineers have been doing, mechanics. I felt the best in the car this weekend and I really feel like this small tweak we made into qualifying was just right and we're making tweaks as we're going through this session just with wing and Q3 run one felt good and I did a really good prep laps and then when I started my lap my SM wasn't on and I was down already like a tenth and a half or two tenths into turn one so that and then I had turn seven because I was trying to floor it back so you know but it's nice I think we probably could have fought for third I think that was the case yesterday as well but it means like a perfect lap out of our car and um but the good thing is that we're kind of we are improving and I really hope that I can take this sort of performance home for the season." F1 2026 || Canada

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Brandon Royval details the exhaustive preparation that went into his fight with Lone'er Kavanagh: "I was subscribed to Lone'er Kavanagh's emails, bro. There wasn't a rock left unturned. Most of our fight took place in his corner, and one thing that helped me out was hearing his corner say, 'The kicks aren't there. Go to the head with the kick.' The moment he went for a head kick, I just stepped in with a punch, and I was like, 'Sick.' I recognized the voices because I pay attention to all their YouTube videos and all their fighters. I just thought this was such a big fight, and Lone'er Kavanagh is so good. I have so much respect for him, and I had so many nerves going into this fight. I just wanted to make sure everything was in order, bro."

Brandon Royval details the exhaustive preparation that went into his fight with Lone'er Kavanagh: "I was subscribed to Lone'er Kavanagh's emails, bro. There wasn't a rock left unturned. Most of our fight took place in his corner, and one thing that helped me out was hearing his corner say, 'The kicks aren't there. Go to the head with the kick.' The moment he went for a head kick, I just stepped in with a punch, and I was like, 'Sick.' I recognized the voices because I pay attention to all their YouTube videos and all their fighters. I just thought this was such a big fight, and Lone'er Kavanagh is so good. I have so much respect for him, and I had so many nerves going into this fight. I just wanted to make sure everything was in order, bro."

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Justin Gaethje says he threw the interim belt because keeping it with Khabib ahead would’ve been foolish 👀🥶 "It wasn't that it wasn't a priority, it was that I knew Khabib was next, and if I was gonna sit there and think that I was any kind of champ with that interim belt, with Khabib being next, I think I was going to be foolish. I needed that mindset to prepare for that fight." Via: UFC

Justin Gaethje says he threw the interim belt because keeping it with Khabib ahead would’ve been foolish 👀🥶 "It wasn't that it wasn't a priority, it was that I knew Khabib was next, and if I was gonna sit there and think that I was any kind of champ with that interim belt, with Khabib being next, I think I was going to be foolish. I needed that mindset to prepare for that fight." Via: UFC

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Bradley Cooper says he was ready to quit acting before The Hangover changed his career “I was going to quit. I remember I was doing a play, and I was like, ‘It's just not happening.’ I really wanted to be an actor. I loved it so much. I was making a living, which was a miracle. For the first three years, I was like, ‘This is amazing.’ Then I was like I just want to be three days on a movie, then you’re not, and then you're gone” “I wasn't really getting any other roles that were substantial. I met with Todd Phillips six months before for The Hangover, and then it was gone. The truth is, I think they had a cast, but the budget was too high. They said if you make it with a smaller budget, we'll do the movie” “Then I was doing a play in Williamstown called The Understudy by Theresa Rebeck. I remember I got an email from Todd Phillips, and I was like, ‘Whoa, how'd he get my email?’ He was like, ‘Let's do this, bitches’” “Then we went from there and started shooting. We went to Vegas that fall. I never would have gotten Limitless if I wasn't part of The Hangover. That changed everything”

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Asked Jayson Tatum if it was ever tempting to wait until next season, knowing that he could shake off the rust behind closed doors rather than in public. Thought his answer was super thoughtful: "It was a range of emotions, of things I was dealing with and contemplating and thinking about. Obviously, physically getting cleared by everybody. And, lot of it had to do with where the team was at, and never wanting to take moments in a season for granted, just thinking like, ‘Oh, we’ll be good next year.’ It's like, I've been in the league a long time, I've been fortunate to be on a lot of really good teams. And you never want to take for granted opportunity to be on the team that's contending for a championship. I had never had basketball taken away from me, so I always — I never took the game for granted, but as you can imagine, how much I missed playing basketball. The little kid inside me, that that's all I wanted to do my entire life. So, when I was cleared and got the opportunity, it was a lot of people I talked to to make the decision, knowing that I wasn't going to be perfect when I first came on the floor, but showing my teammates that I was willing to fight through it, and give it my all. And even though I wouldn't be as in-rhythm or in condition at first, I knew it was going to take some time, but I wanted to be out there with him, I was gonna do whatever it took.”

Asked Jayson Tatum if it was ever tempting to wait until next season, knowing that he could shake off the rust behind closed doors rather than in public. Thought his answer was super thoughtful: "It was a range of emotions, of things I was dealing with and contemplating and thinking about. Obviously, physically getting cleared by everybody. And, lot of it had to do with where the team was at, and never wanting to take moments in a season for granted, just thinking like, ‘Oh, we’ll be good next year.’ It's like, I've been in the league a long time, I've been fortunate to be on a lot of really good teams. And you never want to take for granted opportunity to be on the team that's contending for a championship. I had never had basketball taken away from me, so I always — I never took the game for granted, but as you can imagine, how much I missed playing basketball. The little kid inside me, that that's all I wanted to do my entire life. So, when I was cleared and got the opportunity, it was a lot of people I talked to to make the decision, knowing that I wasn't going to be perfect when I first came on the floor, but showing my teammates that I was willing to fight through it, and give it my all. And even though I wouldn't be as in-rhythm or in condition at first, I knew it was going to take some time, but I wanted to be out there with him, I was gonna do whatever it took.”

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