Wrestling Rules for Life

For he today that sheds his blood with me shall always be my brother - Shakespeare

Everyone has chatter inside their heads.

Some of it is good chatter, some of it is bad.

Which chatter takes over?

The one you feed.

There will be a time in your life where you will not be at your best and you will have to rely on those closest to you for guidance.

They will influence you.

The Zone is the state of massive production.

Every day matters.

Every minute matters.

Every second matters.

One can learn a tremendous amount from failure.

And even more from success.

"Life is 90% reason, rationality, discipline, and organization.

You need to live your life that way.

That last 10% is a leap of faith, an emotional connection, an irrational belief.

That last 10% makes no sense at all.

But the truth is, nothing worth having and nothing worth accomplishing, happens without that last part.

You have to live in that world to do something great." - Scott Green, Wyoming Seminary Head Wrestling Coach

Never let the odds be a deterrent to the achievement of your dream.

As the odds are just other people’s success rate at what you are looking to accomplish yourself.

They are not your odds.

Is “your dream” more important to someone else than it is to you?

If it is, I hate to tell you it is not your dream.

It is theirs.

The biggest mistake a wrestler can make is comparing themselves to successful wrestlers and then trying to emulate their style without having the same body type as they do.

If you want to emulate a successful wrestler, emulate the fact that they used their body type to their maximum advantage and developed a style that was unique to their own.

The same goes for life.

The most important people in your life are the people who believe in you before confirmation of their intuition.

These people will have the biggest impact on your life.

Learn from them.

Better yet, become one of them.

To reach a goal bigger than you thought you could ever accomplish, you will need to become someone greater than you ever thought you could be.

And that is the magic.

The magic of your unique personal transformation into the best version of yourself.

You will reach a point in time in your life when you will stop wrestling. It is at that time life will become your new opponent. Life will be the most formidable opponent you will ever face. No amount of training will ever prepare you for the onslaught that life has in store for you. To win in life, as in wrestling, you must first learn not to beat yourself. 

I never won a National Championship. I’ve never been an All-American. I never won a State Championship Or even a Sectional Championship. Heck, I don’t even have cauliflower ear. Not even on one ear. But 36 years after wrestling my last match I still consider myself a wrestler. That’s because I believe I got the greatest reward from this sport - The realization That Wrestling is more than a sport; It’s a lifestyle. 

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