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

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

Pain is nothing compared to what it feels like to quit. Give everything you got today for tomorrow may never come.

The 1st period is won by the best technician. The 2nd period is won by the kid in the best shape. The 3rd period is won by the kid with the biggest heart.

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

More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.

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

Wrestling... what men do during boys basketball season.

Determination is the strength needed to succeed.

There's always ways of motivating yourself to higher levels. Write about it, dream about it. But after that, turn it into action. Don't just dream.

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

Don’t just GO through life, GROW through it. For Life comes to you only once, never to return! Climb the Ladder of Life, step by step.-RVM

Bumper sticker: My kid beat the heck out of the student of the month.

Turkey's economy is powerful enough to tackle tough times.

He expects us to kill him," Palomides said to Dinadan. "Some people are so demanding," Dinadan replied. "Considering we've only just met, I mean.

This is my destiny — I'm supposed to do this, dammit! Don't tell me what I can and can't do!

I want to give the people a lot more, and be able to perform more than just my one single and all my old songs.

And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself and forget his griefs, or for pastime and amusement.

It is you who are choosing, in any moment, to be happy or choosing to be sad, or choosing to be angry, or forgiving, or enlightened, or whatever. You are choosing.

God's miracles are to be found in nature itself; the wind and waves, the wood that becomes a tree - all of these are explained biologically, but behind them is the hand of God.