#81 Mike Grey - Cornell Associate Head Coach, NJ's first 4x State Champ

Wrestling Changed My Life (Wrestling Podcast)

Wrestling Changed My Life

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4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2019

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Mike Grey is the associate head coach at Cornell, where he’s been a member of the coaching staff since 2011. As an athlete, Coach Grey was a 2x All American for Cornell and was New Jersey’s first 4x state champ. In this episode, we talk about Coach Grey’s upbringing, his family, the journey to win four NJ state titles, and what he’s learned coaching with the great Rob Koll. If you’re a Big Red fan and enjoyed this episode, you may also want to check out the episode with Gabe Dean (episode 71). This episode is brought to you by the Wrestling Changed My Life store. Please go to Store.WrestlingChangedMyLife.com for T’s, Hoodies, Stickers, Coffee Cups, and a ton more. All proceeds from sales go to support the podcast.

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0:00.0	On this episode of wrestling changed my life with Coach Mike Gray.
0:04.0	That wrestling made me who I am.
0:06.0	You know, it taught me how to fight through adversity.
0:09.0	It taught me what a day's work is, what a hard day's work is,
0:13.0	a hard day's work is, you know,
0:14.0	it made me who I am.
0:15.0	We can endure anything
0:20.0	and adapt and pivot and change. Wrestling gave us that ability. I would say nothing in life has impacted me
0:28.1	more than the things wrestling has taught me in terms of self-reflection, resilience.
0:34.0	Toughness.
0:35.0	Some guys have it, some guys don't.
0:36.8	Adversity, 100% how to pick myself up and be a man after I failed.
0:42.2	And everything that has shaped my life and where I'm at today
0:46.4	would not be there without the values and basically the lessons I've learned
0:50.9	through the sport of wrestling. For me, you're wrestling save my life because it allowed me to focus and channel my energy.
0:58.0	We're fortunate if you wrestle because if you wrestle natural talent helps but it's 5% of the
1:08.1	ingredient it pales in comparison to heart and technique and effort.
1:14.0	It humbled me, thought me humility.
1:16.0	Nothing can humble you more than wrestling.
1:19.0	I think it's the learning to adapt, right?
1:22.0	You learn, you learn how to adapt, you learn how to solve problems.
1:26.4	You know, if I look back at my time, I spent wrestling, if it gave me one thing more than anything else, it's
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