Dan Gable
Dan Gable
Danny Mack "Dan" Gableis a retired American Olympic wrestler and head coach. He is best known for his tenure as head coach at the University of Iowa where he won 15 NCAA team titles between 1976 and 1997. He is also famous for having only lost one match in his entire Iowa State University collegiate career – his last – and winning a gold medal at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Germany, while not giving up a single point...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWrestler
Date of Birth25 October 1948
CityWaterloo, IA
CountryUnited States of America
If you are afraid to fail, you will never succeed.
If you're going to stay in the Olympics, you've got to be entertaining and get sponsorship.
I've been a fanatic about working out all my life.
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.
My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
I don't think college wrestling is in danger of extinction by any means. But I am concerned if one program drops.
The easiest thing to do in the world is pull the covers up over your head and go back to sleep.
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.
Greatness in the mat is achieved through training that make you push to survive.
We, as a wrestling community, better remember it is more than one individual that makes a winner.
There is no mat space for malcontents or dissenters. One must neither celebrate insanely when he wins, nor sulk when he loses. He accepts victory professionally, humbly; he hates defeat, but makes no poor display of it.
My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
My mind's never gone very far away from what I wanted to accomplish.
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.