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

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.

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.

In fact I have nightmares about having children. I want to carry a baby and feel the life within me and in my dream, I do. But every time after it's born, there's this incredible fear, this pounding pulse of fear. It's a real bad nightmare.

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

Democracy is stronger than terrorism, and we will not cower to the terrorists' campaign of fear.

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.

I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.

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

Who sows fear, reaps weapons.

For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.

Knight without fear and without reproach.

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

My greatest fear is to be misunderstood.

I'll think, If this is his first punch, how are the others gonna feel? That's the only fear I have for myself.