#168 Kendall Cross - Olympic Gold Medalist & NCAA Champion

Wrestling Changed My Life (Wrestling Podcast)

Wrestling Changed My Life

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🗓️ 5 October 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Kendall Cross is a 1996 Olympic gold medalist. He won an NCAA title and 3x All American honors for Oklahoma State in the late 80’s/1990, as well as two team titles for the Cowboys. Enjoy folks! SPONSOR This episode is brought to you by the Wrestling Changed My Life online store. We have podcast T-Shirts, Hoodies, Crew-necks, Stickers and more. Go to Store.WrestlingChangedMyLife.com to shop. 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. FOLLOW THE PODCAST WrestlingChangedMyLife.com

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0:00.0	Welcome to the show folks. This is wrestling changed my life. Here we go.
0:03.6	John, he isn't looked terribly much like a six-time world champion and two-time Olympic
0:10.6	gold medalist just from, if you give him the eye test and so you might be
0:17.4	mistaken if you think that he's not very strong. We can endure anything and adapt and pivot and change. Wrestling gave us that ability.
0:31.2	I would say nothing in life has impacted me more than the things
0:34.8	wrestling has taught me in terms of self-reflection, resilience. Toughness. Some guys have it, some
0:41.0	guys don't. Adversity, 100% how to pick myself up and be a man after I failed.
0:47.0	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.
0:57.0	For me, wrestling saved my life because it allowed me to focus and channel my energy.
1:03.0	We're fortunate if you wrestle because if you wrestle
1:07.0	natural talent helps but it's 5% of the ingredient. It pales in comparison to heart and technique and effort.
1:18.0	It humbled me.
1:20.0	Humility. Nothing can humble you more than wrestling. I think help me
1:23.0	humility, nothing can humble you more than wrestling.
1:24.6	I think it's the learning to adapt, right?
1:27.2	You learn, you learn how to adapt,
1:28.9	you learn how to solve problems.
1:31.4	You know, if I look back at my time,
1:32.3	that's good wrestling. If they gave me one thing more than anything else
1:35.0	it's been the toughness.
1:37.0	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the wrestling Change My Life podcast.
1:41.0	This is Ryan Warner, your host. your host folks today our guests is the
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