#96 Mark Ironside - Hodge Trophy Winner, Iowa Legend

Wrestling Changed My Life (Wrestling Podcast)

Wrestling Changed My Life

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🗓️ 1 February 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Mark Ironside is one of the great college wrestlers of all time. He's a Hodge Trophy winner, 2x NCAA champ and 4x Big 10 champ. He was also a member of 4 NCAA championship teams. After wrestling Mark founded Ironside Apparel & Promotion, a custom merchandise manufacturer based in Cedar Rapids Iowa. Mark is also the voice of Iowa Wrestling, providing play by play commentary on KXIC-AM (800). Our fan of the week goes to Jim Couples. This episode is brought to you by the Wrestling Changed My Life Store, which can be found at Store.WrestlingChangedMyLife.com.

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0:00.0	Ladies and gents, welcome to wrestling change my life.
0:03.0	You're listening to episode 96 with Mark Ironside.
0:07.0	I'm not thinking about winning.
0:09.0	I'm not thinking, I'm not thinking, you know, about the crowd. I'm not thinking that I'm wrestling
0:13.9	curricula all as I'm doing is thinking about and the same thing I always thought
0:17.5	about my entire life anytime I was ever on the mat wrestling I'm just thinking
0:20.9	about scoring that's all I'm ever thinking about in my mind.
0:24.0	We can endure anything and adapt and pivot and change.
0:32.0	Wrestling gave us that ability. and pivot and change.
0:34.8	Wrestling gave us that ability. I would say nothing in life has impacted me or the things wrestling has taught me in terms of
0:40.9	self-reflection, resilience.
0:43.0	Toughness.
0:44.0	Some guys have it, some guys don't.
0:46.0	Adversity, 100% how to pick myself up and be a man after I failed.
0:51.0	And everything that is shaped my life and where I'm at today would not be there
0:56.7	without the values and basically the lessons I've learned through the sport of wrestling.
1:01.1	For me, wrestling wrestle saving my life
1:02.9	because it allowed me to focus and channel my energy.
1:08.6	We're fortunate if you wrestle because if you wrestle,
1:12.1	natural talent helps,
1:15.0	but it's 5% of the ingredient.
1:18.2	It pales in comparison to heart and technique and effort. It humbled me. Thought me humility. Nothing can humble you more than wrestling.
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