Ryan Garcia

i'm fascinated by you saying that you don't think when you're in the ring what's happening i'm just picking up on cues really um and then kind of like there's these instincts and intuition that are just kind of there you know like oh maybe like you kind of get a feeling where okay i need to start putting pressure on this man or i need to you know uh move a little bit it's just like kind of momentum shifts that you're kind of noticing little by little and then um

There's obviously times where I'm thinking, like sometimes I'll just have like mantras in my head, like that I've done in camp, you know, stay focused.

Like my last fight the whole time when I was fighting him, I would just say like, stay focused, stay focused, stay focused, you know?

So it was just like little things that I would say in my mind, but I'm not really necessarily thinking.

Not thinking.

But thinking.

the pivotal moments like um like my last fight uh i remember i started getting comfortable in like the 11th round just messing with the guy smacking him looking at the trainer and then lowering my hand a little bit and then you know tasting her right hand i was like don't do that and then kind of like snapping myself back in so i remember those moments i remember

You know, when I dropped them, but I mean, for the most part, I have to like look back at the fight to really recall most of it.

Yeah, I mean, it is interesting.

But then also you have like guys like, I guess I don't know if it's

necessary a sport but you know chess guys like Magnus Carlsen and just like all those top chess players they could memorize games from you know when they were like five and you're like oh shit like you know where's that come from that's a different kind of sport maybe it is I mean you have to use your brain there yeah but I wonder even if in that you go okay you know what the movements were but can you tell me

Right, right.

It's funny.

Yeah, it is funny.

Yeah.

All I know is I like to win.

That's all I, you know, I mean, the joy comes after the fight, right?

Well, you've got a job to do.

But, you know, you're... I like the journey of understanding, like, how much levels there actually is to anything, right?

Like, say, construction or something, that's their profession.