I've never changed my life since I was 4 and went to the YMCA with a gym bag. I still have that philosophy. In fact, I still have that gym bag.

More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.

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

A lot of my intensity in wrestling was due to my mental preparation before the matches. I got myself into a different world.

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

I can take anyone down at anytime; they can't take me down; no one can ride or turn me; I can control anyone.

I never won anything by myself. I was always strong because of help that gave me extra strength to win.