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

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.

My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.

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

There's always ways of motivating yourself to higher levels. Write about it, dream about it. 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.