Dan Gable Quotes

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• Once you've wrestled, everything in life is easy.
• I can take anyone down at anytime; they can't take me down; no one can ride or turn me; I can control anyone.
• If you're afraid to fail, you'll never succeed.
• 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…
• Wrestling... what men do during boys basketball season.
• There is no mat space for malcontents or dissenters.
• 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…
• 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…
• I’m a big believer in starting with high standards and raising them. We make progress only when we push ourselves to the highest level. If…
• 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…
• 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…
• My mind's never gone very far away from what I wanted to accomplish.
• But after that, turn it into action. Don't just dream.
• Always remember the pain of defeat, and never let it happen again.
• All I worried about was what Owings was doing to me, instead of what I was doing to him. When you start worrying about that…
• 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…
• Pain is nothing compared to what it feels like to quit. Give everything you got today for tomorrow may never come.
• Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.
• But we've got to work. We can't just live on reputations at all - by any means.
• A lot of my intensity in wrestling was due to my mental preparation before the matches. I got myself into a different world.

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