Your Nights Must Be Friends With Your Days
It is much easier to stay disciplined than it is to get discipline back into your life again.
JohnA Passaro
I always knew that I would write, I just had no idea how personal my first book, "6 Minutes Wrestling with Life", would be to me.
I love to inspire, motivate and show a different approach to dealing with or solving life's problems through my writing.
As a former athlete and current coach, I believe that in sports there are valuable life lessons that can have a tremendous impact on a young athletes life.
I pull these life lessons out from my own experiences in sport.
Hopefully I have touched you through my writing and have stirred your emotions enough to live life more fully.
Don’t Let Defeat be Victorious
There is a difference between losing and being beaten.
Wrestling Rules for Life Podcast Episode #13 – Pick the Right Partner
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Thoughts From Opening Night
Thoughts from opening night. The combination of football playoffs overlapping with the start of the wrestling season and December duals with wrestlers not at their postseason weights is a recipe for forfeits. Needs to be corrected. Football playoffs should be completed before the wrestling season starts. And there should only […]
Hard Work Wins
It is the start of the wrestling season and the first rankings of the year have just been released.
And you are not ranked.
What do you do?
My Philosophy is to Attack
“My philosophy was when I walked on the mat I knew that I out trained the guy in front of me and I was going to wear him down no matter what I was doing.”
Be Humble or Be Ready To Be Humbled
In the long run, a loss that makes you humble will more beneficial than a win that makes you arrogant.
Natural Talent Without Work, Time and Grit, Will Go Unfulfilled
Natural Talent + Work + Time + Grit = Success
Walt Whitman Speech 2019
In 2018 the Walt Whitman High School wrestling team lost their coach Vin Altebrando to a rare auto-immune disease. He was 51. Here is a speech I gave at Walt Whitman HS this spring communicating that Wrestling is More Than a Sport It is a Lifestyle. A Lifestyle […]
Rearranging The Deck Chairs From My Titanic
Imagine being on The Titanic and being separated from your loved ones for the two hours and twenty minutes it took to sink into the Atlantic Ocean.
