#139 Nick Gallo - 1977 NCAA Champ, The Man Behind the Gable Shoe

Wrestling Changed My Life (Wrestling Podcast)

Wrestling Changed My Life

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🗓️ 10 June 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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ABOUT THIS EPISODE Nick Gallo captured the 126-pound national championship and was named Outstanding Wrestler at the 1977 NCAA Championships. During his four years at Hofstra, Gallo recorded a 104-14 record. He was a member of the 1976 and 1980 Olympic Freestyle Wrestling Teams. After Nick’s wrestling career, he started working for Asics and was instrumental in signing Dan Gable and in turn, creating the Dan Gable Asics wrestling shoe. FOLLOW THE PODCAST WrestlingChangedMyLife.com SPONSOR This episode is brought to you by the Beat the Streets Chicago Virtual Gala, which takes place on Saturday June 6 from 8-9pm. It would mean the world to me if you registered to attend the gala. No donation necessary, just come and see what we’re doing with Beat the Streets Chicago. To register, go to WrestlingChangedMyLife.com and click on the Beat the Streets tile. ABOUT THE WRESTLING CHANGED MY LIFE PODCAST Hosted by Ryan Warner, the Wrestling Changed My Life Podcast features in-depth interviews with wrestlers and coaches to learn how the sport shaped and molded their lives. By stitching together stories of sacrifice, triumph, defeat and perseverance, the Podcast takes the listener deep inside the world’s oldest sport. New episodes are released every Monday and Wednesday.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the show folks. This is wrestling changed my life. Here we go.
0:03.6	And the only thing I remember is I took a shot and I go, and he overhooked me.
0:07.4	You know, he put like a wiz around. And I go, I felt the strength of my arm around his waist. I was like, he's small.
0:15.2	And I went right over his head, I locked up, it's called the Nokia Noki, and 54 seconds I tend them.
0:30.0	We can endure anything and adapt and pivot and change. Wrestling gave us that ability.
0:32.0	I would say nothing in life has impacted me more than the things wrestling has taught me in terms of self-reflection, resilience.
0:40.0	Toughness. Some guys have it, some guys don't.
0:43.0	Adversity, 100% how to pick myself up and be a man after I failed.
0:48.0	And everything that has shaped my life and where I'm at today would not be there without the values and basically the
0:56.4	lessons I've learned through the sport of wrestling.
0:58.8	For me, wrestling saved my life because it allowed me to focus and channel my energy.
1:05.0	We're fortunate if you wrestled because if you wrestled
1:09.0	natural talent helps, but it's 5% of the ingredient.
1:15.4	It pales in comparison to heart and technique and effort.
1:20.5	It humbled me, thought me humility.
1:22.3	Nothing can humble you more than wrestling.
1:25.0	I think it's the learning to adapt, right? You learn, you learn how to adapt, you learn how to solve problems.
1:32.0	If I look back my time,, I'm good at wrestling.
1:34.0	If they gave me one thing more than anything else, it's a myth toughness.
1:38.0	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the show.
1:40.0	You're listening to wrestling change my life.
1:42.0	This is your host, Ryan Ryan Warner I'm on my
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