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  • 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.

  • There's nothing like success.

  • 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

    Gable, Dan (1998). “Coaching Wrestling Successfully”, p.25, Human Kinetics
  • If you're going to stay in the Olympics, you've got to be entertaining and get sponsorship.

  • Once you've wrestled, everything in life is easy.

  • If you want to train and work hard 3 months out of the year, well, then, UNI is a great place to go. If you want to bust your tail 6 months out of the year, you should be very happy at ISU. But if you want to train and develop into a champion 12 months out of the year, then Iowa is the place for you.

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  • Wrestling... what men do during boys basketball season.

  • A lot of my intensity in wrestling was due to my mental preparation before the matches. I got myself into a different world.

  • Many of those who have paid the ultimate price for freedom have come through the wrestling ranks. We need to honor them and win this decision to have wrestling - the world's oldest sport - remain a part of the most prestigious athletic competition in the world, the Olympics.

  • If you're afraid to fail, you'll never succeed.

  • My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.

  • The easiest thing to do in the world is pull the covers up over your head and go back to sleep.

  • Wrestling has been a way of life with me day in and day out. I won't get too far away from it. I might walk through the wrestling room once a week. I could go every day if I wanted. But just walk through, make sure it's still there.

  • More endearingly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self control and pride.

  • My wrestling and family go together. It's always been that way, from day one with my mom and dad, my sister, my wife, four daughters, grandsons, son-in-laws.

  • Wrestlers are a little more dedicated than, and are different from, the other people, which may be strange.

  • I never won anything by myself. I was always strong because of help that gave me extra strength to win.

  • I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestling.

  • I can take anyone down at anytime; they can't take me down; no one can ride or turn me; I can control anyone.

  • Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.

  • I've been a fanatic about working out all my life.

  • I don't think college wrestling is in danger of extinction by any means. But I am concerned if one program drops.

  • When my wrestlers got their hands raised, I jumped for joy.

  • I've never changed my life since I was 4 and went to the YMCA with a gym bag. I still have that philosophy. In fact, I still have that gym bag.

  • We, as a wrestling community, better remember it is more than one individual that makes a winner.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.

  • My advice to young wrestlers is that your surroundings really make a difference. You want to put yourself in good, positive surroundings.

  • 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.

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