Greatness in the mat is achieved through training that make you push to survive.
There is no mat space for malcontents or dissenters.
My mind's never gone very far away from what I wanted to accomplish.
My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
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.
Wrestlers are a little more dedicated than, and are different from, the other people, which may be strange.