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.

But after that, turn it into action. Don't just dream.

There is no mat space for malcontents or dissenters.

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

If we don't progress, we backslide into bad habits, laziness and poor attitude.

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

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.