Wrestling Quotes - Page 10

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

  Dan Gable

  Sports, Life Is, Easy

  219 Copy quote

• 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.

  Dan Gable

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  269 Copy quote

• 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.

  Dan Gable

  Sports, Baseball, Football

  33 Copy quote

• There is no normal life that is free of pain. It's the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth.

  Fred Rogers

  Pain, Growth, Normal

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.125, Penguin

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

  Ronald Osborne

  Motivational, Risk, Trying

  7 Copy quote

• The time will come when winter will ask what you were doing all summer.

  Henry Clay

  Inspirational, Summer, Winter

  49 Copy quote

• The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

  Don Shula

  Men, Inferiority, Blame

  84 Copy quote

• 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.

  Dan Gable

  Dream, Writing, Way

  136 Copy quote

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

  Dan Gable

  Sports, Determination, Athlete

  277 Copy quote

• Wrestling is ballet with violence.

  Jesse Ventura

  Sports, Ballet, Violence

  "Jesse Ventura's Theory of Politics". Interview with Vann R. Newkirk Ii, www.theatlantic.com. July 25, 2016.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• This is a sport (wrestling) that has turned many boys into men and many men into leaders. And it is a sport in which you can be a giant regardless of how big you are.

  Carl Albert

  Sports, Boys, Men

  56 Copy quote

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

  Dan Gable

  Inspirational, Sports, Pride

  Dan Gable (2017). “A Wrestling Life 2: More Inspiring Stories of Dan Gable”, p.128, University of Iowa Press

  206 Copy quote

  Show source

• You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "International Encyclopedia of Prose and Poetical Quotations". Book by William S. Walsh, 1951.

  79 Copy quote

  Show source

• Practice without improvement is meaningless.

  Chuck Knox

  Practice, Improvement, Meaningless

  17 Copy quote

• Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat.

  Jesse Ventura

  Inspirational Sports, Winning, Wwe

  Jesse Ventura (2008). “Don't Start the Revolution Without Me!: From the Minnesota Governor's Mansion to the Baja Outback : Reflections and Revisionings”, Skyhorse Publishing Company Incorporated

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Strength, Adversity

  Norman Vincent Peale “The Power of Positive Thinking”, Om Books International

  29 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Dan Gable

  Score

  "Q&A: Dan Gable and the state of wrestling". Interview with Matt Winkeljohn, www.myajc.com. September 16, 2014.

  124 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Dan Gable

  School, People, Getting High

  34 Copy quote

• Just when you think you know the answers, I change the questions.

  Roddy Piper

  Motivational, Sports, Thinking

  754 Copy quote

• Children need models rather than critics.

  Joseph Joubert

  Positive, Education, Children

  27 Copy quote

• Boxing and wrestling are evidence that mankind has not rid itself of all savage behavior.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Boxing, Savages, Behavior

  146 Copy quote

• The believer is sensible of his infirmities, for it is supposed that he is wrestling under them. He sees, he feels, that he is not man enough for his work; that his own hands are not sufficient for him, nor his own back for his burden; this is what drives him out of himself to the grace that is in Christ Jesus. And thus he lies open to the help of the Spirit, while proud nature in unbelievers is left helpless.

  Thomas Boston

  Jesus, Lying, Men

  Thomas Boston (1844). “Select Works of Thomas Boston: With a Memoir of His Life and Writings”, p.522

  26 Copy quote

  Show source

• Character - Some day, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.

  Phillips Brooks

  Life, Real, Struggle

  35 Copy quote

• 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.

  Dan Gable

  Hard Work, Years, Iowa

  101 Copy quote

• The story of American wrestling at its greatest is the story of its most illustrious champion, Frank Gotch. He dominated the field. Through his extraordinary ability, he gained for wrestling many converts. It was Gotch's victories over the hitherto invincible Hackenschmidt that made him the post popular mat star in America and started a movement among college men to take up wrestling.

  Nat Fleischer

  Stars, College, Men

  4 Copy quote