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Dan Gable

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first: 2021-01-09
most recent: 2021-01-09
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“The Highness of getting your arm raised in a wrestling match. And you know what? What's even greater than me getting my arm raised is that if I'm a coach or if I belong with you, that you get your arm raised. And even if you don't get your arm raised, it's what you walk away with and how you learn to handle that as well. Because there's going to be some losses, but you don't want many. You don't want to get used to losing, I can tell you that.”
2021-01-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And some of these guys that maybe weren't wrestlers, that had to wrestle, had to fight wrestling guys and stuff missed a little bit there. But I think the ones that did have wrestling probably have a really good chance and can adapt to the other ones. But I think every martial art or every activity is good and you probably can't skip any, but I don't think they're ever going to overlook and say that wrestling's pretty not valuable because. It is. However, that doesn't mean you're going to make it. You still got to take the values and apply it whatever area you're going to be in. And some people forget that. Some people can't get over.”
2021-01-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's right. He was a wrestler. Yeah. Yeah. He goes, I go back to that. That's what gave me that chance, you know, and there's a guy in Iowa that guy named Norman Borlaug. He invented a process to feed the underprivileged countries of the world. He was a wrestler and he said the same thing, and he worked extremely hard and he said, I give a lot of credit to the sport of wrestling. And even though I'm known for this and I got a statue in Washington, D.C. because I saved a billion lives plus, I'm going to give wrestling a lot of credit. So, you know, I think some of these MMA stars and...”
2021-01-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And he told me, he says, You think I really. Learned how to be a great writer Writing school I said, yeah, I learned a lot there. But really what gave me the ability to Stay focused, to work extra hours, to be more disciplined was wrestling practices.”
2021-01-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Or I would actually maybe I had a guy climb 12 ropes after practice, one after another. And then maybe the next day I'd do it again. I might not make him do it the next day. I might let him recover a little bit more. And you got to learn. Keep adding to your philosophy and your philosophy may have been great at that time, but it's at that time. And what is really important is where you at with this time today. And so there's better ways to do things. Now, if you ever take attitude out of it and just depend on total science, And you're not going to be as, you know, I think I listen to a couple people that are really pretty famous people. One of them was John Irving. He was a writer.”
2021-01-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And that's what you call that a lot of science. So for me, I think that, you know, like right now, if I look back, yeah, I do a lot of things different just because things are proven differently. I give people water during practice. And I did. And I would let them change their wrestling shoes into running shoes to run sprints on the concrete.”
2021-01-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“For me, I'm not about luck, but I do think there is luck is involved, but I think it's mostly created just how lucky you are through preparations. And things have happened in my life forever. A lot of good things. And a lot of people could say, Hey, you've been pretty lucky to win all these awards. I don't know if you analyze my life. I don't think it was involved with luck. You know, I think it was more involved with preparation. And, you know, and again, science, had you been smarter, had you understood that you could do some things and be just as lucky? That'd be great I'm only a smart as today So, when I was training in my life and me even training people in my life, As of that moment, as how lucky I am to be able to have whatever is available to me.”
2021-01-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, probably northern I probably caught a northern net weighed 20 some pounds. You know, the fish I like to catch is walleys. And the reason why I like to catch them, because they're really good eating fish. And the best eating fish are not the real big ones. It's kind of interesting. I got people hunting deer right on my land. And they're looking for the big bucks, but they're not the best eaters if you want to eat, but they're the best trophy. So, you know, I do have a couple trophy walleys on the wall. But most of the time I throw the big ones back and put them back in there.”
2021-01-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In your eyes, and that's great, and it might be But it's the same type of thing that, you know, there's something that you're probably stealing from Harvard. But you won't give them credit.”
2021-01-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, all that stuff. And that's why even talking to you when you're sitting over there and you love MIT and you're bragging about it over Harvard. You know,”
2021-01-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And so it was like when I was trying to beat the best that has labeled the best because they win the world championships every year since they've been just about involved. And I don't think they got started involved until like the 50s. But it's something you study the best who's out there. But then you don't focus so much on the best that you can't beat the best. You learn from them, but there's something that they don't have. You can have”
2021-01-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He had some coaching that was given him the opportunity to become a little better. But I think because he was doing well. And being very successful, The opportunity came. And so it's for me, it's like the same thing. I had so much success. So many practices that went well. And so much goodness out of this sport. It gave me the opportunity. To really look more finite and look more how I can even make it better. And so it's like if you look at my library upstairs, I got a library upstairs. And there's a lot of books up there. From the family, and but if you look at gable books up there, Got a lot of Russian technique books. I can't read the book, but I can see the diagrams. And I can see the figures. They don't really show it in pictures. They do it in drawings.”
2021-01-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't think I ever Looked at it. As anything but just to a combat, and I I think there's times that have made me figure out how to make that combat better. There's little markers or little points in time in your life that make you. Wonder, or I should say determined Be able to get more out of yourself and to be able to take it to a new level. And I don't think people can actually feel that way unless you've actually had a lot of accomplishments in anything. I think there's anything out there. I mean, no matter what sport or breaking the four minute mile, I mean, when you broke that, when they broke that Roger Bannister broke that four-minute mile, I can't imagine him breaking it from his best time being 430. Know it's one of these things that along the line that he did had some close calls.”
2021-01-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It just overcame me. It was like four o'clock, four 30 in the morning when I heard about it. And my wife had been up looking at the internet. And she woke me up and I thought she was joking. But I jumped out of bed really quick when she said that. I knew she was serious. And I start making phone calls right then to find out if it was true. And when I found out it was true, you know, it was just like devastating. It was one of these things that it's a nightmare. You don't let it happen again. It's that simple. You keep getting stronger”
2021-01-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And so our leadership got changed, and it's better, but it's got to stay better. But there are things that we could still be doing to make sure that we don't have situations like this happen. I'll tell you what I first learned about it. I was like, Broke down and wept Again, it's like every once in a while I'll break down and cry about. Or I'll break down I don't know if I cry about losing the owings, but I probably get more determined. But that's kind of, you have to go back and think about those moments when you heard. When I heard that moment and I,”
2021-01-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, yeah. I mean, it's the first time in ever in history that probably all this comp competitive people. That were working for their own agenda. Turn that agenda to the sport. So that made a big difference. And we got a lot done. In fact, In America there was several people that were Really out there that we didn't know about. Until this point in time, and when they came aboard Now they're still aboard. That doesn't mean we're doing everything perfect because just because we got voted back in before we even got kicked out really, that doesn't mean we're by any means safe. We have to do some of the things that I'm talking about or some of the things that we didn't do before we can't fall right back into the same mess.”
2021-01-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But yes, that's wrong. You have to. And if you don't have somebody looking out for you right within the structure It's pretty easy people turn their head. But all it took The statement you guys are kicked out of the Olympics. You guys are done.”
2021-01-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“First of all Did it surprise me yeah But did it really surprise me? No. You gotta run, you gotta have people running. The organization, the are top notch. If you take anything for granted. And you're not the person of authority. Somebody can You And even though we had a lot of authority because we're wrestling, we're one of the first sports in the Olympics ever, and that we think that, you know, we're in 180 some countries and some of the number one. Countries in the world that are politically strong have the sport, you know, we thought we were okay. But then you got to look and see who's running the IOC. The IOC, the International Olympic Committee. You got to see that In rustling, we don't have anybody in there. I mean, that shocked me. We've never had anybody on the ILC. From Know why? Because we didn't have to.”
2021-01-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Year in and year out, and not just based on, okay, Burl's got beat this year, so he'll win next year. It's got to be every year if you're capable of doing that. And that's what the coaching staff has to do. What's kind of funny that I do have a lot of influence actually on the coaching staffs right now at the USA level because the women's freestyle guy is Terry Steiner and he wrestled for me and was a national champion. He's got a twin brother that's at Fresno State. And then Billy Zadick is the freestyle coach and he wrestled for the Hawkeyes back in the early days. And he was the national champion. So we got a lot of former Gable influence on there.”
2021-01-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And Sajal, I've got, I mean, Snyder got second. So those two are our main guys. So the three new guys that came through were guys that hadn't one world gold. In fact, two of them have never made a world team before. And so we have three world champions this year, but we needed all five of them to come through to win the championships. And so the key really is. Getting them all to do the same at the same time.”
2021-01-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But there's a lot of people that are Maybe even closer And they got a big name. I mean, we're doing pretty well right now. I mean, we got first two years ago, and we got second this year. And then we got the women's freestyles doing good in wrestling. We got to work a little bit on Greco yet, but they are working on it. But our men's freestyle team right now are excellent and The key for them is to get them all on the same page. Instead of just have new highlights. And by that I'm saying you look and see who won this year. Well, the three guys that have never won before won this year. We had three world champions. Our two past world champions. Dinwind this year. I mean, they did okay, you know, they got medals.”
2021-01-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I love wrestling. I love wrestling. And I want to start another wrestlers and business network. But there's more than one Dan Gable out there. Well, maybe not.”
2021-01-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Delaware, because we don't have any colleges and wrestling in Delaware. And so I said, Well, you know, I'm gladly that because that's my life, you know, so but then all of a sudden I didn't say anything to my wife until all of a sudden this morning and I told her that I might go on the Friday the 21st of December. Well, I said that's not Christmas. She goes, We're celebrating Christmas that weekend early because a lot of the family can't be here except for that weekend. And I said, oh, well, that's not going to work But I kind of didn't say anything to her at first. And then, well, I'll tell you, she started getting a little emotional. And if I want to stay married for another year 45 years, then I better tell those people that I got family obligations because I Depends what's most important.”
2021-01-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's never happened But I do spend a lot of time out there. And it's, you know, you got to have a little distance sometimes and you got to know your role. And so all of a sudden when you're a guy that's been gone your whole life from eight o'clock in the morning till close to 73 or 8 o'clock at night, so 11, 12 hours a day, then all of a sudden you're not gone as much, even though you still work. She's trying to slow me down now. I'm doing not so much like here what we're doing right now, but when I get in the car and drive somewhere or fly somewhere like just last night, I went to bed and I hadn't told her that this guy called me and he wants me to speak for wrestling wants to start another wrestler's in business networking out in”
2021-01-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's my house away from my house. It's only 30 feet from my house, and it's my office, and it's my workout room. I got a sound of there. It's a bed upstairs if I need it, if I ever get too close. And she says, hey, why don't you go sleep in the other house? But he kicks me out of the bed”
2021-01-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think the chances of doing a loan are much less than the chances of doing it together. Know they say don't bring your profession home sometimes. They say that. I never got away from my profession. And sometimes It's like my house right here. So when I'm moving home and I'm not going to have an office because I'm not going to coach anymore or I'm not going to be an assistant athletic director for a while. You got to do something that Gives you a little bit of a break, not you necessarily. Maybe the person you're living with. And so, I don't know if you looked outside there, I got a cabin right out in my backyard. You probably can't see it right there”
2021-01-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It worked out pretty good. But I think them being able to follow me, not just through college and Olympics and worlds, but my coaching. So it's the same, the same success and factor, you know, the excitement and all those things gave them a real purpose. And it gave my four daughters. It gave my wife a real purpose to be able to be close to all these champions and championships. And now it's like there's a family of 22. And they're all interested in what we're interested in. And it's going good, knock on wood. But, you know, it's something that when all of a sudden you got too much time in your hands and you're not doing and accomplishing much, that things probably Get off, get off track”
2021-01-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I think my family was ready to make a split because of that incident. They're blaming each other. And I think that I was able to help, but more than that, they really liked each other, but they didn't really know it at the time until I got out of the house. Two years later, it probably was going on for a couple years until I moved on and went to college. Then they found out they really liked each other when they were alone.”
2021-01-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And, you know, it was one of these things that. It's definitely made me A lot of who I am because there's been a lot of choices, and I don't, I took the word choice out of my life. And I just like to say, okay, do the right thing, do the thing that you should do. And so I don't really, it's like, you're going to do this or this. Well, what do you mean? Which one's better? You know, well, then I don't have that choice. Just give me the right way to go. And so not that I've been perfect by any means, but it's made a big difference in my life on how I handled my life. It's probably given me the opportunity to be married for forty-four years. It's just given me opportunities to be better in my life. And I want to thank my sister for that, you know.”
2021-01-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He looked at me and he just like he slapped me actually. He pushed me against the car. He didn't slap me. He pushed me against the car. My mom slapped me. She was the one that slapped me around a little bit. But my dad, he pushed me against the car and go, what do you mean you might know something about this? I said, Dad, I don't for sure, and it was probably all crying. And I doubt if I was crying yet. I've probably cried a lot of tears since. But I just said, hey, I was walking to school with this neighbor and I never had walked to school with him before. And he was kind of a troubled kid. And he said something about Diane. And it wasn't good, but I didn't, he goes, why didn't you say something? I said, I just boy talk, you know? And so he hugged me. He hugged me. He hugged me.”
2021-01-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Be careful. I'd say, don't be driving and drinking. Or don't be in a car with somebody that's of the same nature or stay out of trouble. Don't go be somewhere where you have, I said, you know how to get out of a car if your car goes into the river. I just, you know, I'm always thinking ahead a little bit just in case of something did happen. And it goes back to that walk to school with that young man. That when he was talking to me, and I just took it and I kept it inside me. And once I found out she had been murdered, it took me maybe twenty-five to thirty minutes, and I told my dad I think I know who killed her.”
2021-01-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely But I'm 15 years old. You make mistakes, and you don't really act on everything that happens in your life. But I can tell you how it affected me, and I acted a lot on. Anything that maybe wasn't even of that consequence. I mean, because I had four daughters and I'm telling you, when they left every time to go somewhere in a car or go out with someplace, I always said something to them. And they had always said, Dad, you said that last night. I don't care”
2021-01-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What it did was realize that I was already Pretty well developed because I was only a sophomore fifteen years old in high school. And I had parents that weren't making it. And my parents are a lot older than me. And now that we're down just to me and my parents, and I'm going to be around the house for another two years, And they had just lost a daughter that was the only other sibling. They weren't handling They were the ones that were suffering much more than me. I always look back upon one area that I wasn't good at was communication at that time. Except inside the resin room, because I had been tipped off.”
2021-01-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It can be very emotional to me under certain circumstances And And it can be the mood I'm in. It can be maybe if I've had a mountain dew or maybe if I've had a gable beer. Or maybe if you turn the country music up a little bit loud. Emotions come out and everybody has them in their life. It just so happens, you know, what brings it out. And hopefully it's nothing that you do to the extreme point of to where it brings it out. For me, it's not extreme. I don't have to have any of that really. I can get emotional”
2021-01-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, it's just like anything in life that's really high. I mean, it doesn't have to be athletics. I mean, you think I'm ever going to get over the murder of my sister And you might not even know that”
2021-01-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Know it's like, why do I keep going back to it? Because you're not, you don't get over those things. So Royce really keeps going back to it, even though he says he's fine. But then he realizes he's really not fine because that's just the nature of the game. And that's why he was able to win national titles and make world teams and stuff like that. What's interesting about him, he's analyzed all the people that he's wrestled. And a lot of them have one world in Olympic championships. And he's beaten every one of them at one time or another. And he didn't get to that world championship goal or Olympic gold. And he says it because they did it. So he's showing people that. That I beaten those guys. But apparently he didn't beat him at the right time. And so it still haunts him. You don't get away from that stuff.”
2021-01-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm okay with it now Then he keeps talking about it. I don't really think he's okay with it. It's hard for him to actually make amends to himself. When you really don't do it. I mean, it's no matter what the situation, even with the Owings loss.”
2021-01-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Right, exactly you had that line One side of the line you can have an anger for a performance and the other side of the line you if you go beyond that it's not going to be for performance it's going to be for not performance because you're going to lose points. It's a fine line. There's definitely a fine line. You're talking about Roy Selger. You're talking about Tom Brands. You're talking about Terry Brands. I mean you got world championship titles there. You got Olympic Championship title there. You got a world silver medalist in Roy Selger. And when I talk to him about the world silver medalist, he's haunted by that because he was actually 20 seconds away from winning when he got beat in the end there, but that's part of the game. I don't know whether he's okay with it or not because he says every after talking about things he goes”
2021-01-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think anger would cause Less successful wrestling. I think anger would cause you to make mistakes and actually get out of position because I think anger is kind of a loss of control. There can be a furious type of Attack But I think if it crosses the line to anger. Then you're going to be vulnerable. And so Royce and the brands wrestled to the edge through the edge, but when the whistle blew they stopped. And there's people that when the whistle blows they keep going. It's like in a football game Fight breaks out, and it's after the whistles blow. Well, when the whistle blew. They backed off. So that whistle was Something that in a match That kind of gave them the boundaries.”
2021-01-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“She pushed a coll Now, did she suffer because of that? Well, she didn't get to go to the next event because she had to qualify. I think it probably helped her too realizing because she was winning the race and she was beating people she normally never pushed, but she was at a new level that she had never been before and she only needed about five feet to finish. And it was just one of those things that I bet there was a lot of learning that she did there. And it probably made her realize that she could be better. She had to hold up”
2021-01-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And grab the water and get cold water in my face. And so, no, I never really was able to do that. And I think the story is in a book where my daughter pushed a collapse, Molly.”
2021-01-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You're usually in a fairly small room with a lot of guys that the heat rises, and you know it's hard to breathe. And that I can remember, and I stayed a lot of times not by the door, the far end of the room. I can remember walking from the far end of the room to that door. And I can remember, am I going to make it the next step? Am I going to make it the next step? I need air. I need water. I need oxygen. I need to get out of here. It didn't happen often, but I can recount four or five times in my career that I push myself to that level where I thought I was going to maybe go out, but every step I was dizzy. But once I got to that door, I was able to open it and go out.”
2021-01-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Ya, they understand it, but the outside might not understand it because it's almost like, what do you mean there? You push them to the point where they go collapse. That means they may die or something might happen to them. And, you know, that's dangerous. That's dangerous. We can't have our kid in that type of atmosphere. Something that's highly unlikely that's going to happen, but I'm going to tell you there's many times in a practice where I had pushed myself to all of a sudden the whistle blew or it was time to stop and when I got up off the mat or wherever I was at and I needed water I needed fresh air.”
2021-01-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Of exhaustion. You know, the question is really a good question about that pushing to you collapse. Because I don't, as a coach today, I don't think if I said that to my athletes. I don't know. I could get in trouble”
2021-01-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Dysfocus, make sure that I was doing the right things, and I needed my team to be focused. So I made sure that for my mistakes as an athlete or even as a coach sometimes, that I didn't repeat them. Didn't repeat them. And if you make a mistake once and then you can repeat it, then it's like... He didn't learn anything.”
2021-01-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Not being an artist As much, you know, maybe this guy might be better than me scientifically. And, you know, you're a scientist. I think that got to me more than anything else. I said early on that I want to eliminate ever having to worry about getting tired in a match. So I kind of eliminated that. So I got rid of that point. And I do think in wrestling, that is one of the fears that a lot of wrestlers have. Actually, how they feel during the match and are they going to get tired? And is it going to affect my performance? And as a coach, that really was one of the things I tried to eliminate on all my athletes. So there wasn't that fear factor. But that fear factor would be put upon my opponent, which would give me an edge. But that's not what I needed as much.”
2021-01-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I'm sure fear is out there, and I'm sure that was to my advantage almost every time. I'm sure in my Olympic finals, Azure, he had these doubts. He probably had these doubts. And that gives me the edge. And I don't know if I really ever. Had fear But obviously there were points in times where I didn't perform as well, not many, but a few. And if I look back at it, look back at it. I don't think it was that American stuff. I think it was probably the fear of”
2021-01-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I said it, I had to take it 22 times. And in the last two or three times, they wrote it out. And I read it. And still, it wasn't like I just said it. I was reading it like, hi, I'm Dan Gable. Come, you know, that type of stuff. And he finally just closed the book and said, Hey, that's good enough. But I turned, and it was my time to wrestle. And so you learn that, and for me it was great coaching experience because that's what I turned into be. You know, I coached for longer than I wrestled. And I put out a lot of champions, but you learn through mistakes that even in your own career that you had made. You know, it's an ever-learning process. It's an ever-learning process.”
2021-01-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, and I really wasn't a good talker. I mean, me and you were talking pretty good right now, except for I got a little cold, but I don't think I could say two words hardly then. And they took takes. Wide World of Sports said, hey, just, we want you to be the introduction for our next week's show. So just say, hey, I'm Dan Gable. Come watch me as I finish my career undefeated, 182 0. That's what they want me to say.”
2021-01-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I really wasn't. But it was why I changed my philosophy of training and added to The scientific artist type. And if I had won that match, even though I wouldn't have felt good about it, even if I squeaked it out. I wasn't feeling good about that match. It would have affected me a little bit, but if I'd have won it, I would have got over it. I mean, I'm not over it now. I mean, I don't know why I was doing this kind of stuff right before my match.”
2021-01-09 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #152 – Dan Gable: Olympic Wrestling, Mental Toughness & the Making of Champions · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source