Dan Gable Quotes - Page 2

If we don't progress, we backslide into bad habits, laziness and poor attitude.

I can take anyone down at anytime; they can't take me down; no one can ride or turn me; I can control anyone.

If you want to train and work hard 3 months out of the year, well, then, UNI is a great place to go. If you want to bust your tail 6 months out of the year, you should be very happy at ISU. But if you want to train and develop into a champion 12 months out of the year, then Iowa is the place for you.

The obvious goals were there- State Champion, NCAA Champion, Olympic Champion. To get there I had to set an everyday goal which was to push myself to exhaustion or, in other words, to work so hard in practice that someone would have to carry me off the mat.

My advice to young wrestlers is that your surroundings really make a difference. You want to put yourself in good, positive surroundings.

Wrestling has been a way of life with me day in and day out. I won't get too far away from it. I might walk through the wrestling room once a week. I could go every day if I wanted. But just walk through, make sure it's still there.

We, as a wrestling community, better remember it is more than one individual that makes a winner.

My mind's never gone very far away from what I wanted to accomplish.

Wrestlers are a little more dedicated than, and are different from, the other people, which may be strange.

Greatness in the mat is achieved through training that make you push to survive.

Wrestling is the only sport I've ever competed in that puts you totally in a situation of constant motion without breaks. I could play football or baseball, swim -- but there's always some kind of situation that would break my thoughts, break my concentration.

All I worried about was what Owings was doing to me, instead of what I was doing to him. When you start worrying about that stuff, you're going down the wrong path.

My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.

Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.

But we've got to work. We can't just live on reputations at all - by any means.

My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.

I'm delighted to be back in coaching. Our goal is to put Iowa wrestling back on top, and I want to do everything I can to make it happen.

But after that, turn it into action. Don't just dream.

I've never changed my life since I was 4 and went to the YMCA with a gym bag. I still have that philosophy. In fact, I still have that gym bag.

There's nothing like success.

More endearingly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self control and pride.

My wrestling and family go together. It's always been that way, from day one with my mom and dad, my sister, my wife, four daughters, grandsons, son-in-laws.

If you're going to stay in the Olympics, you've got to be entertaining and get sponsorship.

I don't think college wrestling is in danger of extinction by any means. But I am concerned if one program drops.

There is no mat space for malcontents or dissenters.