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

You know because 2014 I was so young and so like almost didn't really

understand that like I deserve to be here like I made the team but I just felt like

oh I'm 20 I'm 21 years old you know

I'm fresh out of junior I was like what can I do here and I wish you know if I could

go back I wish I would tell myself all these things of like why are you why are you caring what anybody

thinks like why do you care you know like you just have to stay you know like so

present like don't miss the opportunity.

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, wrestling saved my life because it allowed me to focus and channel my energy.

We're fortunate if you wrestle because if you wrestle,

because if you wrestle, natural talent helps,

but it's 5% of the ingredient. It pales in comparison to heart and technique and effort.

It humbled me. Thought me humility. Nothing can humble you 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 at my time, I could at wrestling.

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

...