When My Wrestlers Got Their Hands Raised,

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

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

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.

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.