Dan Gable Wrestling Quotes & Sayings

I let my kids make decisions for themselves, but some things are not up for discussion. When it's cold, they wear a coat. — Jen Mann

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. — Dan Gable

Toxic derivatives were underpinned by toxic economics, which, in turn, were no more than motivated delusions in search of theoretical justification; fundamentalist tracts that acknowledged facts only when they could be accommodated to the demands of the lucrative faith. Despite their highly impressive labels and technical appearance, economic models were merely mathematized versions of the touching superstition that markets know best, both at times of tranquility and in periods of tumult. — Yanis Varoufakis

The last thing a director needs is an actress who feels an ownership towards a particular character. — Romola Garai

Label-locked thinking can affect treatment. For instance, I heard a doctor say about a kid with gastrointestinal issues, "Oh, he has autism. That's the problem" - and then he didn't treat the GI problem. — Temple Grandin

More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride. — Dan Gable

If you are afraid to fail, you will never succeed. — Dan Gable

Many of those who have paid the ultimate price for freedom have come through the wrestling ranks. We need to honor them and win this decision to have wrestling - the world's oldest sport - remain a part of the most prestigious athletic competition in the world, the Olympics. — Dan Gable

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. — Dan Gable

Once you've wrestled, everything in life is easy. — Dan Gable

Love is a funny thing to describe. It's so easy to feel and yet so slippery to talk about. It's like a bar of soap in the bathtub - you have it in your hand until you hold on too tight. — Michael Jackson

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

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. — Dan Gable

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

There's a sorrow and pain in everyone's life, but every now and then there's a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed. — Hubert Selby Jr.

Any organisation develops people; it either forms them or deforms them. — Peter Drucker

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. — Dan Gable

his choice was not for life, but against death. — Shane Stadler

And that's all right with me. — Sammy Johns

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

The writer is the person who stays in the room. — Ron Carlson

[The Euclidean algorithm is] the granddaddy of all algorithms, because it is the oldest nontrivial algorithm that has survived to the present day. — Donald Knuth

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. — Dan Gable

A clean, hard-fought wrestling match is the most honest of athletic contests. There is no technological interventions, no teammates to blame, no panel of judges to bias the score. In wrestling, you compete or you quit. No alibis. I like that — Dan Gable

Wrestling ... what men do during boys basketball season. — Dan Gable

I will shoot on film as long as they make it. — Jaume Collet-Serra

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. — Dan Gable

I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestling. — Dan Gable

How you define a problem shapes how you address it. — John O. Brennan

A lot of my intensity in wrestling was due to my mental preparation before the matches. I got myself into a different world. — Dan Gable

I believe, indeed, that what I could not refrain from saying to him on this head had the effect of inducing him to push on. While, therefore, I cannot but lament the most unfortunate and bloody events which immediately arose from my advice, I must still be allowed to feel some degree of gratification at having been instrumental, however remotely, in opening to the eye of science one of the most intensely exciting secrets which has ever engrossed its attention. — Edgar Allan Poe

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

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