Ryan Garcia
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Just my dad would, you know, have me train the whole week and then fight on the weekend.
225 amateur fights.
Yeah, so there's a lot of road trips, a lot of...
A lot of gym sessions and a lot of road work.
Yeah, but to me, it was fun.
I loved it.
Going to the tournaments and hanging out with all the kids.
To me, that was the moment I had a little bit of childhood and fun.
It was just those tournaments.
Yeah, exactly.
The community of the sport.
That was fun.
But yeah, everything requires sacrifice.
Everything.
Extremely hard, but I have seen so many people really dedicate themselves to school and I'm like, dang, how'd you do that?
That wasn't your vibe?
Oh, no.
I mean, I was into math for a little bit and, you know, that was probably the only thing I excelled in.
But other than that, I was kind of like, not my thing.
Your dad wanted to be a boxer, right?