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Wrestling Changed My Life (Wrestling Podcast)

#93 J Robinson - 3x NCAA Champion Coach

Wrestling Changed My Life (Wrestling Podcast)

Wrestling Changed My Life

Sports

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2020

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

J Robinson is a wrestling icon. His career got started in San Diego where he won the California CIF. He then attended Oklahoma State, was an Army ranger, went to Vietnam and was a 1972 Olympian on the Greco team. Shortly after the Olympics, J moved to Iowa City and took an assistant coaching job. He’d spend the next 12 seasons at Iowa, most of which working for legendary coach Dan Gable, and helped the Hawks win 9 national titles. After taking a 2 year break from college wrestling, J became the head coach at Minnesota and created a wrestling dynasty by winning 3 NCAA titles and 6 Big 10 titles. J also owns the J Rob Intensive Wrestling Camps businesses and has spent 40+ years working with high schoolers during the summer. Enjoy this one folks!

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0:00.0

You're listening to wrestling change my life episode 93 with Jay Robinson.

0:05.6

You got to get the right people on the bus and the wrong people off the bus.

0:09.6

So it says this is what we're doing. We're here to win the national tournament. We're here to be a

0:16.0

dominant force in wrestling. So I'll either get on the bus with us or get off the bus. Because if you're on the bus and you don't want to be there

0:25.2

you're going to get in our way.

0:27.2

We can endure anything and adapt and pivot and change.

0:35.0

Wrestling gave us that ability.

0:38.0

I would say nothing in life has impacted me

0:40.0

more than the things wrestling has taught me in terms of self-reflection, resilience.

0:46.0

Toughness.

0:47.0

Some guys have it, some guys don't.

0:48.8

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

0:54.0

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.

1:04.0

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

1:10.0

We're fortunate if you wrestle because if you wrestle,

1:13.0

because if you wrestle, natural talent helps,

1:17.0

but it's 5% of the ingredient.

1:21.0

It pales in comparison to heart and technique and effort.

1:26.1

It humbled me. taught me humility. Nothing can humble you more than wrestling.

1:31.6

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

1:38.4

You know, if I look back at my time, I spent wrestling, if it gave me one thing more than anything else, it's been a toughness.

1:44.0

Ladies and Jents, thank you so much for tuning in.

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