Not accomplishing my college dreams was a hard to put my head down at night every single where I looked I could just all I could think about and so I think that was kind of my initial drive to the coach was like I don't want people to feel what I felt.

We can endure anything and adapt and pivot and change.

Wrestling gave us that ability.

I would say nothing in life has impacted me

or the things wrestling has taught me in terms of

self-reflection, resilience.

Toughness. Some guys have it, 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 is 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.

For me, wrestling saved my life because it allowed me to

focus and channel my energy. We're fortunate if you wrestle because if you wrestle

natural talent helps but it's 5% of the ingredient it pales in comparison to heart

and technique and effort.

humbled me, thought of humility.

Nothing can humble you more than wrestling.

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

You learn, you learn how to

solve problems.

You know, if I look like my time, I could

at wrestling. If it gave me one thing more than anything else,

it's a mental toughness.

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