#189 Jason Welch - Head Coach at San Francisco State, 3x All American
Wrestling Changed My Life (Wrestling Podcast)
Wrestling Changed My Life
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🗓️ 22 December 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the show, folks. This is wrestling change my life. Here we go. |
| 0:03.9 | Yeah, I was always, always a technique junkie. Um, you know, I think it's interesting |
| 0:07.3 | so I always like to, to fight a little bit, you know, at the same time. |
| 0:11.3 | But I think that's what kept me interested in wrestling. |
| 0:13.9 | And so it does. It's just like the the technique aspect and the learning aspect to me. |
| 0:21.6 | We can adore anything and adapt and pivot and change. |
| 0:26.0 | Wrestling gave us that ability. I would say nothing in life has impacted me |
| 0:31.4 | or the things wrestling has taught me in terms of self-reflection, resilience. |
| 0:36.9 | Stop it. Some guys have it, some guys don't. |
| 0:39.8 | Adversity, 100% how to pick myself up and be a man after I failed. |
| 0:45.2 | And everything that is shaped my life and what I'm at today would not be there without the values |
| 0:51.9 | and basically the lessons I've learned to the sport of wrestling. |
| 0:55.4 | For me, wrestling is in my life because it allowed me to focus and channel my energy. |
| 1:02.4 | We're fortunate if you wrestled because if you wrestled, natural talent helps. |
| 1:08.8 | But it's it's 5% of the ingredients. It pales in comparison to heart and technique and effort. |
| 1:16.2 | It humbled me, taught me humility. Nothing can hurt you more than wrestling. |
| 1:22.6 | I think it's the learning to adapt, right? You learn how to adapt. You learn how to solve problems. |
| 1:29.4 | If I look back my time, that's good wrestling. If you give me one thing more than anything else, |
| 1:33.2 | it's mental toughness. |
| 1:36.1 | Ladies and gentlemen, we're back. It's wrestling changed my life. |
| 1:39.6 | Merry Christmas to you. I don't know if I'll talk to you again before December 25th. |
| 1:44.9 | And if I don't, hope you have a great holiday season. |
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