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

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.

I shoot, I score. He shoots, I score.

Pain is nothing compared to what it feels like to quit. Give everything you got today for tomorrow may never come.

There is no mat space for malcontents or dissenters. One must neither celebrate insanely when he wins, nor sulk when he loses. He accepts victory professionally, humbly; he hates defeat, but makes no poor display of it.

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

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.