Determination is the strength needed to succeed.
Talent is everywhere, winning attitude is not.
I never won anything by myself. I was always strong because of help that gave me extra strength to win.
There’s always ways of motivating yourself to higher levels. Write about it, dream about it. But after that, turn it into action. Don’t just dream.
You can’t ever work too much because there’s no such thing as being in too good condition. You can’t ever lift too many weights because you can’t ever get too strong. You can’t ever wrestle too much because you can always do better.
I shoot, I score. He shoots, I score.
The obvious goals were there- State Champion, NCAA Champion, Olympic Champion. To get there I had to set an everyday goal which was to push myself to exhaustion or, in other words, to work so hard in practice that someone would have to carry me off the mat.
Great wrestlers make other wrestlers great.
I can take anyone down at anytime; they can’t take me down; no one can ride or turn me; I can control anyone.
I’m delighted to be back in coaching. Our goal is to put Iowa wrestling back on top, and I want to do everything I can to make it happen.
My advice to young wrestlers is that your surroundings really make a difference. You want to put yourself in good, positive surroundings.
If we don’t progress, we backslide into bad habits, laziness and poor attitude.
Wrestling is the only sport I’ve ever competed in that puts you totally in a situation of constant motion without breaks. I could play football or baseball, swim – but there’s always some kind of situation that would break my thoughts, break my concentration.
Wrestlers are a little more dedicated than, and are different from, the other people, which may be strange.
Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.
But we’ve got to work. We can’t just live on reputations at all – by any means.
We, as a wrestling community, better remember it is more than one individual that makes a winner.
There is no mat space for malcontents or dissenters. One must neither celebrate insanely when he wins, nor sulk when he loses. He accepts victory professionally, humbly; he hates defeat, but makes no poor display of it.
Greatness in the mat is achieved through training that make you push to survive.
My mind’s never gone very far away from what I wanted to accomplish.