Dan Gable Quotes About Sports

Quotes about: Sports

• Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.

  Dan Gable

  Sports, Determination, Wrestling

• 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

  Inspirational, Sports, Wrestling

  Dan Gable (2017). “A Wrestling Life 2: More Inspiring Stories of Dan Gable”, p.128, University of Iowa Press

• Once you've wrestled, everything in life is easy.

  Dan Gable

  Sports, Wrestling, Life Is

• 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

• When I'd get tired and want to stop, I'd wonder what my next opponent was doing. I'd wonder if he was still working out. I'd tried to visualize him. When I could see him working, I'd start pushing myself. When I could see him in the shower, I'd push myself harder.

  Dan Gable

  Motivational, Sports, Tired

• 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.

  Dan Gable

  Leadership, Sports, Hate

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

  Dan Gable

  Sports, Wrestling, Pride

• 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

  Sports, Wrestling, Winning

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