#169 Bruce Burnett - 4x Olympic Coach, Hall of Famer
Wrestling Changed My Life (Wrestling Podcast)
Wrestling Changed My Life
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🗓️ 8 October 2020
⏱️ 70 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the show, folks. This is wrestling change my life. Here we go. |
| 0:03.6 | I filled up more passports. I've been all over the world and what you find is |
| 0:10.6 | the things that drive people as a family and a country, they're the same. |
| 0:19.0 | We can adore anything and adapt and pivot and change. |
| 0:24.5 | Wrestling gave us that ability. I would say nothing in life has impacted me |
| 0:29.2 | the things wrestling has taught me in terms of self-reflection, resilience. Stop |
| 0:34.4 | this. Some guys have it, some guys don't. Adversity, 100% how to pick myself up and be a man after I |
| 0:41.0 | failed. And everything that has shaped my life and what I'm at today would not be there without |
| 0:48.0 | the values and basically the lessons I've learned to the sport of wrestling. For me wrestling |
| 0:53.2 | will save my life because it allowed me to focus and channel my energy. |
| 0:59.3 | We're fortunate if you wrestled because if you wrestled natural talent helps but it's |
| 1:07.2 | 5% of the ingredient. It pales in comparison to heart and technique and effort. |
| 1:14.0 | It humbled me, taught me humility. Nothing can humble you more than wrestling. |
| 1:19.3 | I think it's the learning to adapt, right? You learn how to adapt. You learn how to solve problems. |
| 1:26.0 | No, probably back in my time that's good wrestling. If you give me one thing more than anything else |
| 1:29.8 | it's mental toughness. Ladies and gents, happy Friday from the Wendy City. Come and do you a |
| 1:36.3 | little bit late this week with our second episode. But nonetheless it's here. We have Bruce Burnett, |
| 1:41.8 | one of the great coaches of the past 30 years or so. Bruce is coached at four Olympic games. He |
| 1:49.0 | was the head coach at Navy for many years. He was the head coach of Team USA freestyle for many |
| 1:55.3 | years. But back in 1987 through 1990 he coached Oklahoma State and he had a chance to be around the |
| 2:02.0 | great John Smith, the great Pat Smith, Kenny Monday. And I really had a fun time hearing about all |
| 2:07.2 | these stories. So I hope you enjoy it folks. Fan of the week goes to my man Nick George who just had a |
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