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

Many of those who have paid the ultimate price for freedom have come through the wrestling ranks. We need to honor them and win this decision to have wrestling - the world's oldest sport - remain a part of the most prestigious athletic competition in the world, the Olympics.

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

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.

I vowed I wouldn't ever let anyone destroy me again. I was going to work at it every day, so hard that I would be the toughest guy in the world. By the end of practice, I wanted to be physically tired, to know that I'd been through a workout. If I wasn't tired, I must have cheated somehow, so I stayed a little longer.

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

If you're going to stay in the Olympics, you've got to be entertaining and get sponsorship.