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“We at the Big Ten don't want to be like the SEC ... in any way, shape or form.”

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Bret Bielema is a prominent football coach, recognized for his successful tenure at the University of Arkansas. Born on January 13, 1970, he has made a substantial impact in the sport of football. more

“I've always been scared of advertising folk. I've met them at parties and I've been to their offices and I've always found them intimidatingly cool. At one company I visited, they held their meetings in a caravan that had somehow been installed in the place, a rather more exotic place to gather than the typical BBC glass box.”

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Author:Evan Davis

“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.”

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Author:Dan Gable

“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?”

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Author:Dan Gable

“I’m a big believer in starting with high standards and raising them. We make progress only when we push ourselves to the highest level. If we don’t progress, we backslide into bad habits, laziness and poor attitude.”

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Book:Coaching Wrestling Successfully

Source: Coaching Wrestling Successfully

“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.”

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Author:Dan Gable

“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.”

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Author:Dan Gable

“My mind's never gone very far away from what I wanted to accomplish.”

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Author:Dan Gable

“But after that, turn it into action. Don't just dream.”

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Author:Dan Gable

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