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Like I said, you get your ass kicked for like two years straight by these guys that

you've never even seen or heard of before. They're just bigger and better than you and older and more experienced.

And so then you go back into that zone of like, yeah, you're training hard and you know you're putting the work in, but in the back of your mind quietly in private you're telling yourself

man that sometimes you're thinking there's no way there's no way I'm ever going to be able to make the Olympic team

like I can't even beat the guy that's seventh right now

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, 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 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, you're wrestling saving my life because it allowed me to focus and channel my energy.

We're fortunate if you wrestled because if you wrest you wrestle natural talent helps but it's 5% of the

ingredient 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, you learn how to

adapt, you learn how to solve problems.

You know, if I look back at my time, I've spent wrestling. If it gave me one thing

more than anything else, it's a mental toughness.

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