My advice to young wrestlers is that your surroundings really make a difference. You want to put yourself in good, positive surroundings.

Great wrestlers make other wrestlers great

My wrestling and family go together. It's always been that way, from day one with my mom and dad, my sister, my wife, four daughters, grandsons, son-in-laws.

We, as a wrestling community, better remember it is more than one individual that makes a winner.

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.

The easiest thing to do in the world is pull the covers up over your head and go back to sleep.

I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestling.