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I'm actually not from the United States. I'm from Uzbekistan.

I'm a real big country boy.

I feel grateful to be this size; after all, if I weren't small and had not achieved these world records, I might never have been able to visit Japan and Europe and many other wonderful countries.

I actually feel like the phrase 'big in Japan' is not appropriate for me. The reason is that there are more people who sympathize with my practice in America than there are domestically in Japan.

If people associate me with a region, that's fine with me.

If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

I move around, like a true Kazakh nomad.

I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces.

You can never say you're big - I don't think you can ever take anything like that for granted.

Russia is very big and very varied. People are different in different regions.