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"Before you can imagine yourself at the top of the podium, you have to imagine the work it takes to get there."

--TAK

 

"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."
-Thomas Jefferson

 

"Winning is a habit, but unfortunately, so is losing."

--Vince Lombardi

 

"Knowing your teammate contributes everything they can is essential, if you were hanging from a rope off a cliff, would you want your teammate holding the other end?  You have to believe he wouldn't let go, that the rope would burn through his hands to the bone and he would still hold on."

--Pat Pecora (addressing the topic of "giving it your all for the team")

 

Talent is no match for hard work, determination, and perseverance."

-- W.A.W.

 

“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."

--Dan Gable

 

"If the NCAA Championships were a mile run, we ran the first three laps in World Record time and on the fourth lap we picked up the pace."

--Ethan Brownback (talking about the 1999 NCAA Div.2 Championships when the Strittmatter brothers, Troy Barbush and himself were in the Championship Round)

If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?  ~Vince Lombardi

"He was satisfied with only losing by 4 points, but I can't be satisfied by only beating him by 4 points"
-- Brent Metcalf (post semi's 2008 NCAA Championship.)

"There is no truer test of a person than throwing them into a circle with someone else of the same size and saying GO! "--David Warnick

 

"Its fun to beat on someone...its not fun to get beat on.  If you believe you can win a match then you will win 90% of the time, if you believe you are going to lose then you will lose 100% of the time."--Michael Warnick

"The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender" -- Vince Lombardi

 

"If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat."
--Herschel Walker

 

 

"I trust my coaches, the staff and my workout partners.  I know they have me in the best possible shape to win everything.  It is up to me to get it in my mind that the only way I won't walk away with the title is by letting someone take it from me.  I have to believe I am better, I believe when I walk on that mat I am untouchable, invincible." 

 

 "I know what my job is, I don't pay attention to the brackets on the wall.  I know when I'm in the hallway warming up and I see you looking at the brackets, with a concerned face... I have you right where I want you."

 

"I have never been part of a sport where the word 'underdog' is so insignificant as it is in wrestling."

 

“I swear it upon Zeus an outstanding runner cannot be the equal of an average wrestler.”

--Socrates

 

"I like the attention I got from wrestling. It wasn't like any other sport where my teammate made an excellent block for me or an exceptional pass.  The attention I got from wrestling was from MY efforts and MY labor.  Keep in mind it was also MY failures."

 

"Six minutes is all you get to prove you are better, and he is not.  Six minutes to become the champion.  No one is protecting your weak side, no double teams, no advantages."