Once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy.

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

I shoot, I score. He shoots, I score.

Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.

Once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy.

The 1st period is won by the best technician. The 2nd period is won by the kid in the best shape. The 3rd period is won by the kid with the biggest heart.

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

Freedom across the world is a result of many individuals working together.

I don't think college wrestling is in danger of extinction by any means. But I am concerned if one program drops.

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

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

I've been a fanatic about working out all my life.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.

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.

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

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.

There's nothing like success.

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

When my wrestlers got their hands raised, I jumped for joy.

Wrestlers are a little more dedicated than, and are different from, the other people, which may be strange.

Once you've wrestled, everything in life is easy.

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

Once you've wrestled,, everything else in life is easy.

Always remember the pain of defeat, and never let it happen again.

Determination is the strength needed to succeed.

If you are afraid to fail, you will never succeed.

Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

If it came to saving the life of one priest or sacrificing the life of an entire congregation, the church would save the life of the priest. Which is backwards, of course.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

You have choices to make about what you do with the rest of your life.

From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large.

I want to have babies one day but not right now. When I do it I want to do it really well. I want it to be my best project in life.

Any judge who allows an adulterer with a live-in girlfriend to terminate the life of his wife should be impeached.

I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way to live fully.

The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.