“What kept me going in this game, more than anything, is that I have a mission, and my mission is very simple: I want to prove to all the people that hard work pays off. If anyone knows me, they know I’ve been grinding for 20 years, and I’ve been putting in hard work, and it needs to pay off on a big stage like this. They need to see me as world champion, because it’s like the definition that hard work pays off, and that if you bust your ass, you stay consistent, you work hard, good things happen.”