#442 Rob Waller - PA Coaching Legend

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Wrestling Changed My Life

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🗓️ 15 May 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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ABOUT THIS EPISODE Rob Waller is a legendary coach from Pennsylvania. For over fifty years, he’s run the Rob Waller All-American wrestling camp and club. Coach Waller is a PA hall of famer, as is his son Robbie Waller who was a PIAA state champion and an NCAA champion for Oklahoma. Enjoy!

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0:00.0	I call it championship shape.
0:03.0	We have a lot of guys.
0:04.0	I thought, you're a good shape.
0:05.0	You're good for in here.
0:06.0	You're really good for in here.
0:07.0	You're doing a good job.
0:08.0	But you're not in championship shape.
0:10.0	And when you get to Horsley, Pennsylvania,
0:12.0	Hoss, that's going to take his toll on you
0:14.0	about the quarters of the semis.
0:16.0	So you better pick it up, dude.
0:21.0	We can endure anything,
0:23.0	and adapt, and pivot, and change.
0:26.0	Wrestling gave us that ability.
0:28.0	I would say that nothing in life has impacted me
0:31.0	or that things wrestling has taught me
0:33.0	in terms of self-reflection, resilience.
0:36.0	Stop it.
0:37.0	Some guys have it, some guys don't.
0:39.0	Adversity, 100%, how to pick myself up
0:42.0	and be a man after I failed.
0:44.0	And everything that is shaped my life
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