Born on 25 October, 1948, Dan Gable is an American former freestyle wrestler and coach.
A two time NCAA Division I national champion, a world gold medalist and an Olympic gold medalist, Dan Gable has achieved a lot throughout his lifetime. Don Gable is known for being one of the most renowned wrestlers in the history of America.
Dan Gable’s childhood was not a happy one, however he did not let those obstacles stall his journey as a wrestler. Instead he drew inspiration from them and moved on with a strong spirit. Dan Gable quotes on success, Dan Gable quotes on motivation, Dan Gable quotes about life, Dan Gable quotes on winning, Dan Gable quotes about pain are appreciated by all. Given below is a list of famous quotes from Dan Gable.
Famous Dan Gable Quotes
Dan Gable started his career in wrestling from a very early childhood. Here’s a list of some of the most famous Dan Gable quotes.
1. “All I worried about was what Owings was doing to me, instead of what I was doing to him.”
– Dan Gable.
2. “Many of those who have paid the ultimate price for freedom have come through the wrestling ranks”
– Dan Gable.
3. “Once you’ve wrestled, everything else in life is easy.”
– Dan Gable.
4. “More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride.”
– Dan Gable.
5. “I shoot, I score. He shoots, I score”
– Dan Gable.
6. “Greatness in the mat is achieved through training that make you push to survive.”
– Dan Gable.
7. “Pain is nothing compared to what it feels like to quit.”
– Dan Gable.
8. ” I was born into wrestling, so the transition from being a wrestler to a coach was automatic.”
– Dan Gable.
9. “You can’t ever work too much because there’s no such thing as being in too good condition.””
– Dan Gable.
10. “Remember, don’t wait for it to happen. Make it happen, as soon as possible, by great preparation.”
– Dan Gable.
11. “For some reason, even if you win 15 national titles and 21 straight big 10 titles, things aren’t always going good because you’ve got 25 members there, or 35.”
– Dan Gable.
12.” Some have wrestled without great skill, none have wrestled without pride.”
– Dan Gable.
13. “My valleys are higher than most people’s peaks. I stay at that level.”
– Dan Gable.
14. In all my coaching and writing and speaking, I’ve always tried to convey good, useful messages that can help people not just be more effective wrestlers or professionals, but also live better lives”
– Dan Gable.
15. “If we don’t progress, we backslide into bad habits, laziness and poor attitude.”
– Dan Gable.
Dan Gable Wrestling Quotes
Dan Gable won several medals throughout his lifetime. In his collegiate career, Dan Gable served as the head wrestling coach at the University of Iowa. The following is a list of Dan Gable quotes on wrestling.
16. “You may get tired. So what? We expect to be tired, but we expect to be able to continue until a match is over as well.”
– Dan Gable.
17. “Wrestling has been a way of life with me day in and day out. I won’t get too far away from it.”
– Dan Gable.
18. “Wrestling, what men do during boys basketball season.”
– Dan Gable.
19. “A lot of my intensity in wrestling was due to my mental preparation before the matches. I got myself into a different world.”
– Dan Gable.
20. “Determination is the strength needed to succeed.”
– Dan Gable.
21. “Yeah, I do. Short stories, and it’s supposed to be inspiring. So hopefully, it’ll help boost our sport up a little.”
– Dan Gable.
22. “We, as a wrestling community, better remember it is more than one individual that makes a winner.”
– Dan Gable.
23. “I never measured an athlete by their accolades when they arrived on campus.”
– Dan Gable.
24. Just because you are strong on a physical point of view, you still have to apply a lot of motivation in your training to go to the highest level.”
– Dan Gable.”
25. “Pain is weakness leaving the body.”
– Dan Gable.
26. “My preparation was all week long, every week.”
– Dan Gable.
27. “My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.”
– Dan Gable.
28. “Talent is everywhere, winning attitude is not.”
– Dan Gable.
29. “Wrestlers are a little more dedicated than, and are different from, the other people, which may be strange.”
– Dan Gable.
30. “Wrestling is the only sport I’ve ever competed in that puts you totally in a situation of constant motion without breaks.”
– Dan Gable.
Inspirational Dan Gable Quotes
Serving as the head wrestler at the University of Iowa, Dan Gable inspired many amateur wrestlers and motivated them to not give up before achieving the highest stair of success. Given below is a list of Dan Gable quotes on inspiration.
31. “The amount that you’re willing to sacrifice is directly proportional to your desire for success.”
– Dan Gable.
32. “Give everything you got today, for tomorrow may never come.”
– Dan Gable.
33. “But no matter your activities, motivational drive determines outcomes.”
– Dan Gable.
34. “You may get tired. So what? We expect to be tired, but we expect to be able to continue until a match is over as well. ”
– Dan Gable.
35. “I might walk through the wrestling room once a week. I could go every day if I wanted. But just walk through, make sure it’s still there.”
– Dan Gable.
36. “Gold medals aren’t really made of gold. They’re made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.”
– Dan Gable.
37. “When my wrestlers got their hands raised, I jumped for joy.”
– Dan Gable.
38. “Great wrestlers make other wrestlers great.”
– Dan Gable.
39. “I am not a good loser.”
– Dan Gable.
40. “But at around 48 or 49, I wasn’t really ready to just hang it up, especially when you have a work ethic like a wrestler. ”
– Dan Gable.
41. “My wrestling and my family go together. It’s always been that way.”
– Dan Gable.
42. “A clean, hard-fought wrestling match is the most honest of athletic contests.”
– Dan Gable.
43. “My advice to young wrestlers is that your surroundings really make a difference.”
– Dan Gable.
44. “I don’t think college wrestling is in danger of extinction by any means.”
– Dan Gable.
45. “No, you would have no chance.”
– Dan Gable.
Best Dan Gable Quotes
Dan Gable believed in never giving up and continuing to struggle, because only then success in inevitable. Dan Gable has won many medals, following this mantra in life. The following is a list of Dan Gable quotes for you to read.
46. “If everything was going really good and we needed a short, hard practice that’s probably what I did.”
– Dan Gable.
47. “Always remember the pain of defeat, and never let it happen again.”
– Dan Gable.
48. “You can’t ever lift too many weights because you can’t ever get too strong”
– Dan Gable.
49. “There’s nothing like success.”
– Dan Gable.
50. “There’s always ways of motivating yourself to higher levels. Write about it, dream about it.”
– Dan Gable.
51. “When you start worrying about that stuff, you’re going down the wrong path”
– Dan Gable.
52.”I know some people have been working on it for a while. I didn’t really take them seriously. I appreciated it. But apparently they got some work done.”
– Dan Gable.
53. “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.”
– Dan Gable.
54. “But after that, turn it into action. Don’t just dream.”
– Dan Gable.
55. “The bells are a very good investment. They never break if they are maintained.”
– Dan Gable.
56. “We need to honor them and win this decision to have wrestling – the world’s oldest sport – remain a part of the most prestigious athletic competition in the world, the Olympics.”
– Dan Gable.
57. “The mind weakens before the body.”
– Dan Gable.
58. ” I could play football or baseball, or swim, but there is always some kind of situation that would break my thoughts, break my concentration.”
– Dan Gable.
59. “When I could see him working, I would start pushing myself.”
– Dan Gable.
60. “I always measured success by what they achieved when they left the program and what they went on to do with their life.”
– Dan Gable.
Gold medals aren’t really made of gold. They’re made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.
If you’re afraid to fail, you’ll never succeed.
More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill – none have wrestled without pride.
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.
My mind’s never gone very far away from what I wanted to accomplish.
If you’re going to stay in the Olympics, you’ve got to be entertaining and get sponsorship.
My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
I never won anything by myself. I was always strong because of help that gave me extra strength to win.
My wrestling and family go together. It’s always been that way, from day one with my mom and dad, my sister, my wife, four daughters, grandsons, son-in-laws.
Once you’ve wretled everthing else in life is easy.
Many of those who have paid the ultimate price for freedom have come through the wrestling ranks. We need to honor them and win this decision to have wrestling – the world’s oldest sport – remain a part of the most prestigious athletic competition in the world, the Olympics.
Raising your level of performance requires a proper mentality and meaning from within. This gives you the ability and drive to work on the things necessary to go to a higher level. When people ask me how to raise their level of performance, the first thing I ask is, How important is it to you?
I vowed I wouldn’t ever let anyone destroy me again. I was going to work at it every day, so hard that I would be the toughest guy in the world. By the end of practice, I wanted to be physically tired, to know that I’d been through a workout. If I wasn’t tired, I must have cheated somehow, so I stayed a little longer.
You don’t really measure the year until the whole year is done. I’m sure there are some concerned people, including the coaches right now.
There is no mat space for malcontents or dissenters.
The bells are a very good investment. They never break if they are maintained. I can teach the kids the basics. They may play bells for only one year, but many of them go on to play at local churches.
More endearingly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self control and pride.
Greatness in the mat is achieved through training that make you push to survive.
But we’ve got to work. We can’t just live on reputations at all – by any means.
If we don’t progress, we backslide into bad habits, laziness and poor attitude.
I’m delighted to be back in coaching. Our goal is to put Iowa wrestling back on top, and I want to do everything I can to make it happen.
Great wrestlers make other wrestlers great
Always remember the pain of defeat, and never let it happen again.
There is no mat space for malcontents or dissenters. One must neither celebrate insanely when he wins, nor sulk when he loses. He accepts victory professionally, humbly; he hates defeat, but makes no poor display of it.
Talent is everywhere, winning attitude is not.
Determination is the strength needed to succeed.
Pain is nothing compared to what it feels like to quit. Give everything you got today for tomorrow may never come.
I’ve been a fanatic about working out all my life.
I’ve never changed my life since I was 4 and went to the YMCA with a gym bag. I still have that philosophy. In fact, I still have that gym bag.
I don’t think college wrestling is in danger of extinction by any means. But I am concerned if one program drops.
There’s nothing like success.
Wrestlers are a little more dedicated than, and are different from, the other people, which may be strange.
A clean, hard-fought wrestling match is the most honest of athletic contests. There is no technological interventions, no teammates to blame, no panel of judges to bias the score. In wrestling, you compete or you quit. No alibis. I like that
When I lifted weights, I didn’t lift just to maintain my muscle tone. I lifted to increase what I already had, to push to a new limit. Every time I worked, I was getting a little better. I kept moving that limit back and back. Every time I walked out of the gym, I was a little better than when I walked in.
If you want to train and work hard 3 months out of the year, well, then, UNI is a great place to go. If you want to bust your tail 6 months out of the year, you should be very happy at ISU. But if you want to train and develop into a champion 12 months out of the year, then Iowa is the place for you.
You can’t ever work too much because there’s no such thing as being in too good condition. You can’t ever lift too many weights because you can’t ever get too strong. You can’t ever wrestle too much because you can always do better.
The obvious goals were there- State Champion, NCAA Champion, Olympic Champion. To get there I had to set an everyday goal which was to push myself to exhaustion or, in other words, to work so hard in practice that someone would have to carry me off the mat.
Wrestling is the only sport I’ve ever competed in that puts you totally in a situation of constant motion without breaks. I could play football or baseball, swim — but there’s always some kind of situation that would break my thoughts, break my concentration.
Wrestling has been a way of life with me day in and day out. I won’t get too far away from it. I might walk through the wrestling room once a week. I could go every day if I wanted. But just walk through, make sure it’s still there.
