Always remember the pain of defeat, and never let it happen again.

I vowed I wouldn't ever let anyone destroy me again. I was going to work at it every day, so hard that I would be the toughest guy in the world. By the end of practice, I wanted to be physically tired, to know that I'd been through a workout. If I wasn't tired, I must have cheated somehow, so I stayed a little longer.

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

My mind's never gone very far away from what I wanted to accomplish.

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

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.

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