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

Wrestlers are a little more dedicated than, and are different from, the other people, which may be strange.

Once you've wrestled, everything in life is easy.

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

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.

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