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.

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.

Thank you to all for your prayers and good wishes. It gave me the strength to persevere and warmed my heart.

Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

A man must be strong in that profession, he must have vigor of body and mind, yet I am all out of breath if I walk up a hill; I have not the heart to crush even a fly.

Well, after I had the heart attack, it was a very simple choice. What the doctor told me I did and I did it religiously. I ate nothing but lean turkey breast or chicken breast or a piece of fish that was very lean. I mean I stayed away from everything.

Then, in that hour of deliverance, my heart spoke. Does not such a country, and such defenders of their country, deserve a song?

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have.

The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.

When you know something in your heart, you better not be quiet about it. You better speak out about it.

Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart.

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.

Grissom is pretty asexual. He's not that interested in anything other than work - except for Lady Heather. She's the closest to getting his heart of anyone.