Welcome to the show folks. This is wrestling changed my life. Here we go.

The beautiful things of wrestling is getting to be in and around some really tough, you know, individuals that teach you that, hey, adversity is, that's just a part of it.

We can endure anything and adapt and pivot and change. Wrestling gave us that ability.

I would say nothing in life has impacted me or the things wrestling has taught me in terms of

self-reflection, resilience. Toughness. Some guys have it, some guys don't.

Adversity, 100% how to pick myself up and be a man after I failed.

And everything that has shaped my life and where I'm at today would not be there

without the values and basically the lessons I've learned through the sport of wrestling.

For me, you're wrestling save my life because it allowed me to focus and channel my energy.

We're fortunate if you wrestled because if you rustled, natural talent helps, but it's 5% of the

ingredient.

It pales in comparison to heart and technique and effort.

It humbled me.

Something can humble you more than wrestling.

I think it's the learning to that. humble you'll more than wrestling.

I think it's the learning to adapt, right?

You learn, you learn how to adapt, you learn how to solve problems.

You know, if I look back my time, I spent wrestling.

If it gave me one thing more than anything else, it's been toughness.

Ladies and gents, today we have a tale that is one of the most motivating stories that you've ever heard on this show. My guest is Brian Piccolo, who was a two-time

all-American at Michigan State. But what's incredible about Brian is that he never qualified

for the high school tournament, and he never started wrestling until his junior a year.

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