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?
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
My heart bleeds for full-time wrestlers who get part-time results.
There is no gene for the human spirit.
If you watch closely, you can see it happen in every wrestling tournament.
A match where one wrestler fights and another decides to quit.
Be humble enough to knowThat you’re not better than anybody,And wise enough to knowThat you’re different from the rest. The way that you carry yourself, The way that you present yourself, The way that you compete, The way that you interact with your allies and rivals, The way […]
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.
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.
Do the same.
John Passaro 