#57 Jim Miller - 10x NCAA Champion, Coaching Legend

Wrestling Changed My Life (Wrestling Podcast)

Wrestling Changed My Life

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🗓️ 3 October 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Jim Miller was NCAA Division II champion at 134 pounds for the University of Northern Iowa in 1974 and ’75 and placed second and fourth in Division I those same years. After coaching at the high school level, Miller returned to UNI as the top assistant coach from 1983-91 when he became head coach at Wartburg. He had a career record of 413-37-2, winning 10 NCAA Division III team championships, 21 consecutive Iowa Conference championships and seven National Wrestling Coaches Association National Duals championships before stepping down after the 2013 season. He coached 37 individual national champions, 147 All-Americans and 72 NWCA Academic All-Americans at Wartburg.

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0:00.0	How you think has everything to do with how you perform and what you attain.
0:04.8	Welcome to the show folks. This is wrestling changed my life. Here we go.
0:11.6	We can endure anything and adapt and pivot and change. Wrestling gave us that ability.
0:18.8	I would say nothing in life has impacted me or the things wrestling has taught me in terms of
0:24.4	self-reflection, resilience. Toughness. Some guys have it, some guys don't.
0:29.3	Adversity, 100% how to pick myself up and be a man after I failed.
0:35.0	And everything that has 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.
0:45.0	For me, wrestling saved my life because it allowed me to focus and channel my energy.
0:51.0	We're fortunate if you wrestled because if you rustled, natural talent helps, but it's 5% of the
1:01.1	ingredient.
1:02.1	It pales in comparison to heart and technique and effort.
1:07.0	It humbled me.
1:08.0	Thought me humility. Nothing can humble you more than wrestling.
1:12.0	I think it's the learning to adapt right you learn you learn
1:16.0	how to adapt you learn how to solve problems. You know if I look back my time
1:20.4	that's good wrestling if it gave me one thing more than anything else, it's been toughness.
1:25.1	Welcome to the show folks. You're listening to wrestling changed my life. My guest today is one of the
1:29.8	greatest wrestling coaches of all time, Jim Miller who coached Warburg to 10 national
1:36.8	titles during a 22-year span and they also won 21 consecutive conference championships
1:41.8	during that same time.
1:43.3	Pretty incredible and I really enjoyed this conversation.
1:46.9	Our fan of the week goes to Ryan Nalin, who's a former wrestler turned BJJ extraordinary. Many thanks for the support, my friend. And if you enjoy this
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