Dan Gable Quotes - Page 2

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• 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

  Hard Work, Wrestling, Years

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• 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

  Wrestling, Take Me, Turn Me

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

  Dan Gable

  Wrestling, Community, Remember

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• If you are afraid to fail, you will never succeed.

  Dan Gable

  Wrestling, Succeed, Failing

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

  Dan Gable

  Wrestling, Differences, Advice

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

  Dan Gable

  Wrestling, People, May

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

  Dan Gable

  Greatness, Training

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

  Dan Gable

  Attitude, Progress, Laziness

  Gable, Dan (1998). “Coaching Wrestling Successfully”, p.15, Human Kinetics

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• 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

  Sports, Baseball, Football

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• 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.

  Dan Gable

  Worry, Owing, Stuff

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

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  Wrestling, People, Valleys

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

  Dan Gable

  Mind, Gone, Far Away

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

  Dan Gable

  School, Wrestling, People

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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

  Wrestling, Might, Way

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

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  Mean, Reputation, Just Live

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

  Dan Gable

  Mom, Dad, Wrestling

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• 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

  Wrestling, Iowa, Goal

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

  Dan Gable

  Dream, Action, Turns

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• 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.

  Dan Gable

  Philosophy, Wrestling, Ymca

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• There's nothing like success.

  Dan Gable

  Wrestling

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

  Dan Gable

  Sports, Wrestling, Pride

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• 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

  Mom, Daughter, Dad

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

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  Wrestling, Olympics, Sponsorship

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• There is no mat space for malcontents or dissenters.

  Dan Gable

  Motivational, Athlete, Space

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

  Dan Gable

  Mean, Wrestling, College

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