Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Gable

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

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

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

Dan Gable

I shoot, I score. He shoots, I score.

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

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

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

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

If you're afraid to fail, you'll never succeed.

Dale Carnegie

Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities.

Claire McCaskill

Well, Im wrestling alligators.

Dave Bautista

People look at me, and they have a certain perception, and they slap a label on me. The guy you saw in a wrestling ring is not who I am.

Dawn Fraser

I probably have a different mental approach to swimming than most people. I actually enjoy training.

Curt Schilling

The bigger the game the better. I'm an adrenaline junkie. I feed off big crowds and noise.

Andre Agassi

If I don't do what I need to do to win, I won't win, no matter who is on the other side of the net.

Chuck Knox

Repeated actions are stored as habits. If the repeated actions aren't fundamentally sound, then what comes out in a game can't be sound. What comes out will be bad habits.

Chuck Knox

Practice without improvement is meaningless.

Andy Kaufman

If I play my cards right, I could bring network wrestling back to TV. Unfortunately, to most people, wrestling is a laughingstock. But fortunately, I'm reaching people who otherwise wouldn't watch it.

Eddie Guerrero

To me, wrestling is therapy. No matter how bad my personal situation is, when I step into the ring, all my troubles disappear. My baggage stays in the back where it belongs.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

If you want to be a champion you cannot have any kind of an outside negative force coming in to deflect you.

Bobby Heenan

Just look at the way he hangs in mid air!

Bobby Heenan

Once you wrestke Rikki Atakki, an hour later you want to wrestle him again.

Bobby Heenan

When's the last time you went into a barber shop and saw everyone there unconsious?

Bobby Heenan

You don't have to yell at me Schiavone. I'm not blind!

Bobby Heenan

He looks like something that fell out of a deck of cards!

Bobby Heenan

I once asked him what came at the end of the sentence... and he said "parole".

Bobby Heenan

[On Sting] He threw a sucker punch. There's the sucker who threw the punch. Him the the Bart Simpson hair doo.

Bobby Heenan

The two things that scare me most about wrestling fans is that they're allowed to vote and allowed to reproduce.

Bobby Heenan

There's a counter for every hold and a hold for every counter, and a lunch counter for every person that you know Schivone.

Bobby Heenan

Tito Santana is like a cue-ball. The more you strike him, the more english you get out of him.

Bear Bryant

Find your own picture, your own self in anything that goes bad. It's awfully easy to mouth off at your staff or chew out players, but if it's bad, and your the head coach, you're responsible. If we have an intercepted pass, I threw it. I'm the head coach. If we get a punt blocked, I caused it. A bad practice, a bad game, it's up to the head coach to assume his responsibility.

Bear Bryant

I'm no innovator. If anything I'm a stealer, or borrower. I've stolen or borrowed from more people than you can shake a stick at.

Brian Tracy

Luck is predictable; the harder you work, the luckier you get.