Like, my mantra was always relentless attack, and so before matches, if my mind started

wandering, I would just, in my head, I was just constantly relentless attack, relentless

attack, relentless attack.

I mean, if people kind of laugh when I tell them, but I'd be like, walk, you know, doing

the pace thing before, before big match, and I would just like, man, I'm a bad mother.

No one wants to wrestle me right now.

Like, that guy over there, he's scared, like, I would just, just constantly have this

going through my mind the whole time.

I can endure anything, and adapt, and pivot and change, wrestling gave us that ability.

I would say that nothing in life has impacted me more than 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 what I'm at today would not be there without

the values and basically the lessons I've learned to the sport of wrestling.

For me, wrestling is in my life because it allowed me to focus and channel my energy.

We're fortunate if you wrestled because if you wrestled, natural talent helps, but it's

5% of the ingredients.

It pales in comparison to heart and technique and effort.

It humbled me, taught me humility, nothing can humble you more than wrestling.

I think it's the learning to adapt, right?

You learn how to adapt, you learn how to solve problems.

You know, probably back in my time, that's a good wrestling if you give me one thing more

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