Respect the Sport And the Sport Will Respect You
Understand, achieving great things is measured by the distance from where you started to where you finished.
Understand, achieving great things is measured by the distance from where you started to where you finished.
When you plow through adverse conditions – it is a differentiator.
It is much easier to stay disciplined than it is to get discipline back into your life again.
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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 […]
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 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.”
In the long run, a loss that makes you humble will more beneficial than a win that makes you arrogant.
Natural Talent + Work + Time + Grit = Success
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 […]