Wrestling Dan Gable Quotes & Sayings

[ ... ] dictatorship, the most extreme form of tyranny, can never lead to social liberation. — Noam Chomsky

I believe that gospel is more than just a sound, it's a way of life. I don't really have any shame to talk about spirituality in my music. A lot of your favorite soul songs started out in gospel. — Leon Bridges

Sometimes you only get to win one championship. — Leonard Gardner

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

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

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

Look at the bright side no matter how old you are, you are younger than you'll ever be again. — Zig Ziglar

You can't be pro-labor and anti-business. — Bobby Schilling

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

I was supposed to be babysitting an eighteen-year-old blind, rich kid, and he locked himself in a closet! Honestly. — Renee Carter

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

How hard can it be? — Kinky Friedman

The other guys were in the bedroom. There was a movie playing, one I hadn't seen. The boys lifted their heads up at the same time, like a pack of meerkats. I almost died. Too cute.
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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

I want to live my life without filters. I don't walk on egg shells. I say what I want and I'm a very free spirit. — Demi Lovato

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

Love in my case is not indispensable to pleasure, nor is respect. Is it possible, therefore, that the disgust, the humiliation begin afterward, when a man subdues you and violates you at his pleasure solely because now you belong to him, love or not, respect or not? — Elena Ferrante

I love being a redhead. It's a rare thing, so I think there's a bond between redheads. — Laura Prepon

Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice. — Hanoi Hannah

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

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

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

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 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

Isabelle waved a hand. "No need to worry, big brother. Nothing happened. Of course," she added as Alex's shoulders relaxed, "I was totally passed-out drunk, so he could really have done whatever he wanted and I wouldn't have woken up."
"Oh, please," said Simon. "All I did was tell you the entire plot of Star Wars."
"I don't think I remember that," said Isabelle, taking a cookie from the plate on the table.
"Oh, yeah? Who was Luke Skywalker's best childhood friend?"
"Biggs Darklighter," Isabelle said immediately, and then hit the table with the flat of her hand."That is so cheating! — Cassandra Clare