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

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

"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."

"Once you've wretled everthing else in life is easy."

"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."

"Raising your level of performance requires a proper mentality and meaning from within. This gives you the ability and drive to work on the things necessary to go to a higher level. When people ask me how to raise their level of performance, the first thing I ask is, How important is it to you?"

"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."

"You don't really measure the year until the whole year is done. I'm sure there are some concerned people, including the coaches right now."

"There is no mat space for malcontents or dissenters."

"The bells are a very good investment. They never break if they are maintained. I can teach the kids the basics. They may play bells for only one year, but many of them go on to play at local churches."

"More endearingly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self control and pride."

"Greatness in the mat is achieved through training that make you push to survive."

"But we've got to work. We can't just live on reputations at all - by any means."

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

"I'm delighted to be back in coaching. Our goal is to put Iowa wrestling back on top, and I want to do everything I can to make it happen."

"Great wrestlers make other wrestlers great"

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

"There is no mat space for malcontents or dissenters. One must neither celebrate insanely when he wins, nor sulk when he loses. He accepts victory professionally, humbly; he hates defeat, but makes no poor display of it."

"Talent is everywhere, winning attitude is not."

"Determination is the strength needed to succeed."

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

"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."

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

"There's nothing like success."

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

"A clean, hard-fought wrestling match is the most honest of athletic contests. There is no technological interventions, no teammates to blame, no panel of judges to bias the score. In wrestling, you compete or you quit. No alibis. I like that"

"When I lifted weights, I didn't lift just to maintain my muscle tone. I lifted to increase what I already had, to push to a new limit. Every time I worked, I was getting a little better. I kept moving that limit back and back. Every time I walked out of the gym, I was a little better than when I walked in."

"If you want to train and work hard 3 months out of the year, well, then, UNI is a great place to go. If you want to bust your tail 6 months out of the year, you should be very happy at ISU. But if you want to train and develop into a champion 12 months out of the year, then Iowa is the place for you."

"You can't ever work too much because there's no such thing as being in too good condition. You can't ever lift too many weights because you can't ever get too strong. You can't ever wrestle too much because you can always do better."

"The obvious goals were there- State Champion, NCAA Champion, Olympic Champion. To get there I had to set an everyday goal which was to push myself to exhaustion or, in other words, to work so hard in practice that someone would have to carry me off the mat."

"Wrestling is the only sport I've ever competed in that puts you totally in a situation of constant motion without breaks. I could play football or baseball, swim -- but there's always some kind of situation that would break my thoughts, break my concentration."

"Wrestling has been a way of life with me day in and day out. I won't get too far away from it. I might walk through the wrestling room once a week. I could go every day if I wanted. But just walk through, make sure it's still there."

"The journey is what brings us happiness not the destination."

"There are no ordinary moments."

"If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever."

"A warrior does not give up what he loves, he finds the love in what he does"

"Everyone tells you what's good for you. they don't want you to find your own answers. they want you to believe theirs."

"Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body."

"You can live a whole life time never being awake."

"Your fears are not walls, but hurdles. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it."

"Be happy now, without reason - or you never will be at all."

"There is no path to Happiness. Happiness is the path. There is no path to Love. Love is the path. There is no path to Peace. Peace is the path."

"The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for."

"The world's a puzzle; no need to make sense out of it."

"Where are you? Here What time is it? Now What are you? This moment."

"The seasons do not push one another; neither do clouds race the wind across the sky. All things happen in their own good time."

"I had lost my mind and fallen into my heart."

"The warrior is Here, Now."

"Live in the Moment", "Empty Your Mind of the Trash" Wisdom is the Use of Knowledge"