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Wrestling Changed My Life (Wrestling Podcast)

#498 Jason Nolf - 3x NCAA Champ for Penn State talks Retirement

Wrestling Changed My Life (Wrestling Podcast)

Wrestling Changed My Life

Sports

51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Jason Nolf joins the podcast to talk about his retirement, battling Kyle Dake, and his early years at Penn State.

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So when I got to Penn State, you know, no longer having to drive at all, you know, I was just walking across the street to practice.

0:08.0

No longer doing two practices a day, we only did one practice a day and they were shorter than either of my practices from high school.

0:19.4

We can endure anything and adapt and pivot and change. Wrestling gave us that ability. I would say

0:27.0

nothing in life has impacted me more than the things wrestling has taught me in

0:31.5

terms of self-reflection, resilience.

0:34.7

Toughness. Some guys have it, some guys don't.

0:37.2

Adversity, 100% how to pick myself up and be a man after I failed.

0:42.1

And everything that is shaped my... myself up and be a man after I failed.

0:43.0

And everything that has shaped my life

0:46.0

and where I'm at today would not be there without the values

0:50.0

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

0:53.4

For me, you wrestle saving my life because it allowed me to focus and channel my energy.

1:00.4

We're fortunate if you wrestled, if you rustled natural talent helps but it's 5% of the ingredient.

1:09.9

It pales in comparison to heart and technique and effort.

1:15.0

It humbled me, thought me humility.

1:17.0

Nothing can humble you more than wrestling.

1:20.0

I think it's the learning to adapt, right learn you learn how to adapt you learn how to solve problems

1:26.9

You know if I look back my time that's good at wrestling if they gave me one thing more than anything else

1:31.9

It's nothing else. Ladies and, welcome back to the wrestling change my life podcast.

1:36.0

It's your host Ryan Warner.

1:38.0

Our guest today is the great Jason Noff, three-time. champ for Penn State, recently retired from the game and is now

1:46.6

full-time as the co-founder of Athletes Ocean, an app that Jason talks a lot about in this episode and I'm excited for you guys to learn about here on this podcast.

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