If You're Going To Stay

My Advice To Young Wrestlers Is That Your Surroundings Really Make A Difference. You Want To Put Yourself In Good, Positive Surroundings.

A Clean, Hard-fought Wrestling Match Is The Most Honest Of Athletic Contests. There Is No Technological Interventions, No Teammates To Blame, No Panel Of Judges To Bias The Score. In Wrestling, You Compete Or You Quit. No Alibis. I Like That

All I Worried About Was What Owings Was Doing To Me, Instead Of What I Was Doing To Him. When You Start Worrying About That Stuff, You're Going Down The Wrong Path.

I’m A Big Believer In Starting With High Standards And Raising Them. We Make Progress Only When We Push Ourselves To The Highest Level. If We Don’t Progress, We Backslide Into Bad Habits, Laziness And Poor Attitude.

Gold Medals Aren't Really Made Of Gold. They're Made Of Sweat, Determination, And A Hard-to-find Alloy Called Guts.