You were listening to the wrestling change my life podcast episode 89 with Tom Ryan.

You know you're only a walk-on if you view yourself as one, right?

And you just how you see yourself is so much more important than how anybody else sees you.

You never see yourself through anybody else's lens other than your own, right?

And for me, I never felt like I was a walk-on. I never viewed myself as a walk-on. You know, I viewed myself as someone that was committed to sport.

And whether or not anybody in the organization knows I'm going to have an influence in it, I know I'm going to.

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 wrestle saved my life

because it allowed me to focus and channel my energy.

We're fortunate if you wrestle,

because 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.

It humbled me, thought of humility.

Nothing can humble you more than wrestling.

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