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Tom Brands

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  1. “I mean, that's past. I mean, he's got an Uno title. We have Uno World Championships. He's got an Uno title. I have yet to have one. Morningstar has two titles. That's unprecedented So there's only four trophies out there, and Terry's got one of those, and I don't have one yet”

    2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “He came up on that end of the pool and he was like, Where's he X? He didn't see me. And so we stopped him, and then he came back and then we went another one and I beat him. But it's the only time that I wouldn't say that he was tuckered out. And that's the reason why. And I'll also say this. We did a time where we timed my race, the one I won. And then we timed his first down to the wall, and then we timed his, the actual race where once he hit the wall, we timed him on the way back and he'd beat me. Now, how's that for being a”

    2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “I had researched this thing because that's how I am. No, I didn't, but I researched it in swimming. If you flinch on that starter block, it's a full start. You can't twitch a finger. And because they would be doing that to get their buddy to move or the guy next to him, you know. So you have to be rock solid. Well, when we went, Terry was leaning forward as of the gun was going off. So he's moving. And so I was like, no, no, no, false star. No, no, no, no. And he couldn't hear me. He was already in the water. And so he took off like a bat out of you nowhere for the end of the pool and couldn't hear me and got to the end of the pool and it was a down and back. Well, that's a hard thing to do with a guy with no body fat. And so he burned a lot of energy”

    2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “Next year, well, I don't know if it'd be legal, but I'd have to check with our compliance. They'd have to vet you. You could come and see what it's all about. This room is full.”

    2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “Have to have that. And if you don't have that, then you have to address it quickly. And those outliers, you know, let's solve that problem. Let's get it out in the open here. And if it doesn't work out, it's not going to work out.”

    2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “Goes back to what I said earlier about our people. Our people are great. Ryan Mortistar is great. Bobby Telford is great. Bobby Telford took over for a guy named Ben Burhau, who is great. Our medical team is great. Dr. Westerman, Dr. Wolf, Jesse Doneworth, our athletic trainer is great. Terry Brands is great. Variat and Elise Owens, our managers are great. My daughter's a manager as well. It's great. They're hardworking young women. Our Hawkeye wrestling club is where it needs to be in terms of how they help in their role. And now we have four women in there. And that's great. And, you know, at least one of their dads is super involved with us. And so it's one thing that I've learned is that you have to.”

    2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “Their children here at Thanksgiving. And that equals 70 people. And it's fun. It's fun. So family means administration. Gary Varda, my athletic director gives us everything that we need to be successful. And he has an open mind for the sport of wrestling. And wrestling is important in Iowa, so that's a no-brainer. Not if you're not a wrestling guy, but he sees we do it the right way. And so the commitment is there from him. If we were Dufuses, you know, the commitment wouldn't be there.”

    2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “Kimmers Dan is the same, and so there's a lot of good there. And that's a big move because how we talk to parents, we don't talk to parents to get along with them. We talk to parents to help them understand where we're at with their sons. And when you can have a direct conversation with a parent who's helping his son or her son, the mom, helping her son to be accountable and to own it, then you can get a lot accomplished. And that's what we've been able to do. And so you're solving problems like I talked about earlier. That's part of the family. The other part of the family is the coach's are like family. The other part of the family is the coach's significant others and wives are part of the family. And we fed, you know, we fed 40 guys and an entire coaching staff and wives.”

    2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  9. “Anyway, here's the thing with family. I mean, we have great people in our program. We have great parents. We have a culture of parents that that's part of the buzz. And this class that you see wrestling right now that's been here a year now, Lee, Miran, Costello, Warner, and then Lugo was a transfer, and I'm forgetting somebody and I don't want to forget anybody. But these parents are phenomenal. And that's a different parental culture.”

    2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  10. “Her story of that is that she didn't want me to have to remember the number. And I say at this point, and I say there's no way. And I remember it very clearly.”

    2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  11. “Strength, love, patience. Same things I talked about, things that you can't control, you turn them over. So the biggest thing for me is I got to turn over the things that I can't control, turn them over to that power. And I'm going to be a lot better off. And that's the reason why I'm not in the funny farm. It's very competitive to me. Very serious that we know that these young wrestlers come to school here to be the best that they can be and to accomplish goals that, like me, when I was young, they've set out to accomplish. And they chose Iowa to do that. And so we have to deliver. And because of that, Peace with God, you know, it's pure. It's a pure motivation. It's a pure platform. It's not doing this for my ego. We're not corrupt people, we're not liars and cheaters. And so often That gets in the way of a decent person.”

    2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  12. “Of a sudden, you do something in the practice room that you've been working on, and all of a sudden you hit it, and it's like it was automatic. And then that, you know, Yeah, that multiplied success.”

    2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  13. “We have a good young group of guys, and there is a lot of buzz in the program and probably hasn't been this much buzz for quite some time. And our job is to be relaxed and be focused and not get caught up in the buzz. But we have to put it together. And we have a catalyst, Spencer Lee, but he's going to have to have to get better. And we have some other catalysts as well that are going to help us in the future. But they got to get better. And so all this stuff about independence and accountability and being able to get better every day under duress. And not knowing that you're getting better, but you are great thing about Gable was wrestling for him was, is you were getting better and you didn't know you were getting better.”

    2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  14. “That's right. And I mean, I'm not going to say you can't because somebody will get a hold of this and I'll get an email or a letter that says, you said blind people can't play baseball and blah, blah. I'm just saying that blind people can wrestle very effectively. I've wrestled with my eyes shut. I mean, was honest about it too And it was effective. Why was I able to be effective Is it sport that you can overcome a lot? Your demons that you're overcoming, they're not limited. Whether I'm blind or not, the demons that are overcoming are inside you. You have to overcome those demons from within.”

    2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  15. “I do, and we're raising $20 million for a facility to make it the best facility on the planet. We have a vision to build the best facility on planet Earth and put the best wrestlers in it. And that is bigger than wrestling. It's for the University of Iowa. And our donors are doing it for the University of Iowa. But it is about the value of wrestling to me also. There is so much value to wrestling blind. Blind people don't play football. They wrestle. Blind people don't play basketball. I mean, maybe they do, but it'd be very difficult. They can wrestle. Wrestling is a feel sport.”

    2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  16. “There's a balance because you're not going hard and holding your breath. It's not a relaxed and like you've got a guy cornered in who's most dangerous. Well, the guy that's cornered. And so that's where you relax. I'm not bum rushing him. I relax. I'm still moving faking very fluid. Guy falls down on his face. I run around behind him. That's offense. Have to just grunt to the leg and call that offense. Offense is a And out, smooth”

    2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  17. “I said something about that too in a book, and I think I was misquoted one time. Actually, it was Gable's quote, and I was trying to make the point that Gables quote was like this. And they were making it like it was my own words. I think it was a first wrestling tough book. It's a good book. It's a good book, but the story's gables. And I don't know if there's anybody that has done that besides him. And I think that's a very rare quality. But I've definitely been in that nervana level of, you know, you could go all day long and it doesn't, you have to shoot me to stop me.”

    2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  18. “Get up for John Smith. They get up for Oklahoma State. They get up for Penn State. My question is, I'll answer it this way. I'll give you an example in my coaching career. I coached at Virginia Tech for 22 months. Recruited the number one recruiting class. We got the administration to change 100% 180 how they looked at wrestling. Here's the thing. And because of how serious we were and because we weren't idiots. We were able to do that with our administration, but my point is this we tried to win. We tried to win, even at Virginia Tech. It wasn't a stepping stone for me. It ended up being one quickly. And looking back on it, I was a fool to think that I'd be there for 20 years.”

    2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  19. “Well, I'm not asking for that necessarily, but thanks. I'm saying, you know what? As a coach, I mean, okay, come spend a month in our program and you'll see really what kind of people we are. And there's a stigma out there because they are very threatened by our program. There's nobody else that threatens. Sport arrest, like we do. And that's the truth.”

    2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  20. “There's a balance, or not even a balance, there's a line that you go up to and you can't cross it. Sportsmanship is everything. You can get dinged for points. You can get thrown out of tournaments. There's rules with flagrant misconduct where you're kicked out of the match. Other team gets the points, and then you have to sit the next meet. So it's very serious. The NCAA sends a message, very serious message about sportsmanship. And so we talk about that. The other thing with wrestling is there's rules in wrestling. These guys that are tough guys outside of the rules. That's what you want in your opponent. That means they're frustrated. You gotta be a tough guy inside the rules of the sport. That's more honorable than Colcock and somebody and knocking them out.”

    2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  21. “I don't think that that's a bad thing to have that mentality. I mean, I think a Kutikov. I remember a story I read about him. He comes to mind, you know, Sargouch. I remember when he lost in London. And I remember the look on his face. And those are some of the greatest wrestlers in the history of the sport, freestyle wrestling. You know what? It's what works for you. And you can talk about being at peace with your results and that the approach and the journey is what it's about. But, and that's great. And that relaxes some champions and that makes some champions really, really tick. But not everybody. So it's okay. It's okay. And if that wigs you out, that really makes you uptight, then go the other route. You have to find what works for you. You. That takes a lot of work. If you're lazy, forget it.”

    2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  22. “Yeah, but you're talking about, yeah, we got to move forward. What does that mean? Well, I know what that means, but how many guys really know what that means in their program? There's so many levels of that.”

    2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  23. “Like there's just some, you know, there's ideas that when you're a coach that aren't, they're beneath the surface and you got to find them. And”

    2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  24. “I think that we need to put them both together and the individual impacts the team. We haven't done that since 2010, and we need to do a better job of putting 10 weight classes out there that contribute to the team. And if it's not 10, then it's nine. And if it's not nine, it can't be four. And that takes a lot of pride and it takes a lot of, you know, where the coach is on top of it. And, you know, you're not just working on the easy things. The glaring things you're working on everything.”

    2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  25. “What are they going to do tonight in their rest? What are they going to do tomorrow in their recovery on their own necessarily? What are they going to do Monday? Great wrestlers can. Use their imagination with a win that they're not satisfied with and go forward as if it was a loss, but it's still easier to go forward with that win. But they don't just, oh, I want, I'm fine, it goes on. But then when they lose the exact same way that they could have lost before, then they go off the deep end. And then that's when they're going to make the change in their life. And we talked about that to our team tonight. The mature rare ingredient is guys that can get better even with success like it was a loss without beating themselves up. That's complicated.”

    2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  26. “That's where your psychology comes in, and that's where the repetition and all of self talk and visualization in the physical shape and everything comes together. And so that doesn't happen. And tonight, we got beat twice. Actually, three times, and we out-restled those. We lost three matches, and we out-restled the guy for six minutes. 30 seconds or one match went to overtime. And if our guys can move forward with the right perspective, I'm confident that they'll be better. I'll tell you what, I'd take our guy over their guy any day, any day, because our guys get up for every match. And now we got a lot to work on. A lot to work on, but you know what? I can say all that, and I'll take our guy. But what are they going to do tonight in their meal?”

    2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  27. “Little, he'll never admit that, and he probably is truthful. And I shouldn't, I'm speaking for him, but he is truthful when he says that. But if I look at it and bronze sucks. But if I look at it, he did put some demons in rest. I'm proud of him for it. There's something there that is a consolation in the fact that he won the consolation medal. The consolation medal sucks, but there is a consolation that he won the consolation medal.”

    2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  28. “Control how you react to an injury. Control that so you can't have any control over it. It's over. You know, whatever and whatever happened, but relax and you learn to deal with injuries better because of that. You have that experience that you let this thing maybe get the best of you. And that's just an example. Know Terry put a lot of demons to rest with that bronze medal.”

    2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  29. “And because of that experience, that makes Terry a better coach because of 1995, that makes me a better coach. Realizing that there are certain things that unraveled in that year that I could have controlled looking back on it. And when you have that perspective, you can communicate.”

    2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  30. “Think you come to peace that in the end, when it's over, that you did the best you could. And that's certainly the case with Terry. He is a career credentials are better than mine internationally. He won two world championships. I won one. And he won Olympic bronze medal. And I won Olympic gold medal, but I only won. And the thing is, is that's not what's important anyway. What's important is that when it's all over, you know, how do you look back on it? And you're kind of like, well, you just said that you made sure that you weren't going to leave anything undone. But you know what? There were tournaments where I did leave things undone. And so how do you come back from that? Well, Terry never came back from 2000 because he retired. Well, you know what? You duplicate and exceed when you're communicating to these young athletes.”

    2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  31. “Fear is the type of fear, and I just talked about this to one of my athletes today, Jack Dempsey talked about fear and the fear of losing is what motivated him to try to take his opponent's head off. He was a boxer. And that's okay. So fear of competition, fear of screwing up, fear of, oh, I don't feel good, no, but that little fear that, you know what, there's somebody out there that thinks that they're going to revel in my eat it up in my misery. They're going to love. They're going to be thriving because I fail. And I'm not going to let that happen.”

    2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  32. “You see the draw and it's a two day tournament, so psychology comes into it as much as physical shape, because there's those, you got to sleep, you know, the night before after the way, and then you got to sleep again that next night after you semi-final match is going to be in the morning, you know, and then you have to go back and rest because your final matches didn't entail whatever time it was. And so all this relaxation and all that stuff that you just talked about, that visualization and self-talk, that's what helps it your routine.”

    2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  33. “And you know what? I don't talk about that, and nobody else does either, but everybody talks about it in their own career. So now you're making my head big. But yeah, I had a road I had a row, you're right.”

    2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  34. “Yes, visualization, self talk, and that's how I was able to relax and getting ready for matches my whole life learned that very early age at a camp, at a developmental camp, at a young age, Terry and I did. And I can tell you what I ate. And I can tell you what I did to relax. And it doesn't matter. What you have to do is you have to find that piece. And I just know that when I was getting ready for the finals match, I had gone back to my room. I had my relaxed material, you know, and I was able to relax because I prepared for it.”

    2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  35. “It really doesn't matter. I have a routine that I had a routine as a competitor that I could run through right now. It was a lot of self-talk, very, very positive self-talk.”

    2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  36. “We do, and we haven't won. And you say, well, one in eight years. Well, you're right. We haven't, but look at our results better than anybody out there besides Penn State. And it's because of our mentality and because we have great people. Ryan Mornystar, Bobby Telford, Terry Brads, our medical team even, our strength coach, Quinn Holland, we're all on the same page. And when I send something, I hit it immediately. I don't have time to waste. There will not be dissension in that hallway.”

    2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  37. “That's probably where my hatred of losing Trump's my love for winning because I wanted to shove it up their rear end bad. The thing is, we maintain a high level, and there's very few programs, Oklahoma State, Ohio State now, Penn State. I mean, there's four programs that try to win a national title every year. That's it, and these other teams get up and they got a good team and they get up and they get going. And then when things don't go well, okay, we're going to do it next year. Or this is a down year. We're going to get ready. We're three years out.”

    2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  38. “When we go forward and we go put our public foot forward, there is a decision we are unified and there is no backbiting. And we have great people right now. We hadn't had that before. We've had detractors in our Hawkeye Wrestling Club. We've had guys that would go out and get rolled up in ankle laces and not care in our club. And we got Brandon Sorensen who got rolled up by James Green last night. But I tell you what, I don't have a problem with that. You know why? Because I know it means a lot to him. He didn't roll over. He didn't quit because he was on the consolation side of a bracket. And so when you have that and then you have, you know, if there's anticipation, it's behind closed doors and then you're moving forward. And when you have people that, when they're meeting your fans and your supporters, you know, they're talking the right way with the right message. And anything that's catty wonk us to that, you got to be careful there. You got to be careful there.”

    2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  39. “Not rake me over the coals, but they researched or they actually found out what the fight was about. And I was distraught. I was really emotional, like crying or whatever you want to say. You don't want to admit that to me. But it wasn't because I got beat up or got my nose bloodied or got punched in the face or broke my arm or there was any pain. It was because they stomped on my dream and they doubted me. And so I fought for that. And, you know, that was a lesson. There's going to be a lot of doubters. And one thing we talk about as a staff is our staff has to be locked up in that hallway, in our offices. And when you deviate outside of that, that is.”

    2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  40. “There are a lot of twins there is a dominant twin, a lot of them. Very few times is there a situation where I'm going to win every time and everything and then he's thinking the same exact way. And Terry used to describe it like when we used to get interviewed a lot about our careers, like it'd be like you grabbing a steering wheel and me grabbing a steering wheel and fighting. And that's what it was like when you would wrestle him or fight him. And so I had that benefit. So when did I know? Well, I got addicted to wrestling really, really fast in fifth grade and started to research it and I don't know why and talked about the Olympics and put it in my head and remember said something about being an Olympic champion in fifth grade and somebody made fun of me and I got into fight in the playground. And I remember getting pulled in, getting in trouble for that. And the people that got me in trouble for that were smart enough.”

    2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  41. “I don't know. I mean, I found out, I got really addicted to wrestling really, really fast, started late, but looking back at my life, wrestled my whole life with my twin brother. And when Terry and I would fight, it was wrestling. And it was to maim. And so if you're trying to maim me, I better be tough. Because if I roll over. Expects you to scratch my belly when you're trying to maim me. I won't lose my head. And Tom and Terry Brands, there was no alpha male. And when it was on, it was on for real.”

    2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  42. “I think that coaches, science is better. I think that coaches communicate it. I think they always have. I think the bottom line is having the energy to implement that and taking a guy by the hand when he doesn't understand and he's new in your program and he's essential or he's unwilling to and not disciplined enough because when you think him by the hand enough, they won't learn that discipline. This is an important aspect of wrestling, buddy. You know what I'm saying? So, you know, it's not just go and show up for the match. I mean, it's not about just making weight either. You got to be able to make weight. That's part of the warm-up, that's part of the process getting ready to wrest”

    2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  43. “It's a lot of discipline and it's a lot of discipline during a very uncomfortable time period that really doesn't last that long, but it feels like it lasts long and it's painful. But once you shrink your body down and if you're hydrated, you'll get through it. If you're a little hungry, but you're eating, but you're hydrated, once you break that sweat, your energy depletion goes away. That's a fact. I've practiced that. You come in and you're yawning and you're starting to shrink your body down. And it's that time of year where, hey, I got to get my body shrunk down and you're dehydrated. You are dead in the water. But if you're hungry and hydrated, when you break that sweat,”

    2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  44. “And when you walk in that wrestling room, there are no distractions. And it's never eternal. The only thing that's eternal is death. Oh, there's nothing. Sometimes guys come in there and they wig out. Oh, we're in 25 minutes or an hour and 45 minutes.”

    2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  45. “I do think it's possible to overtrain if you have a lot of distractions And if you're looking at your watch running out of the room Then, yeah, you're going to, in that frame of mind, isn't going to lend itself to excellency. And the thing is, is we have to accomplish what we need to get accomplished to get better every day. You can't kind of accomplish what you need to accomplish. You have to accomplish it. And when you're in that mindset, then the clock is irrelevant. There's no place for a clock in the wrestling room. And maybe a clock that times a match. It may be a clock if we're student athletes here, but that's why we encourage our, when you schedule your classes, that you don't have a class that comes right up to. Know practice time or starts as a night class and it starts at 5 30 you know go to get the 6 30 class or the 7 o'clock”

    2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  46. “I think Peking and burnout are frames of mind or burnout as a, like you let things probably get to the point where you could have arrested them with a good frame of mind. But peaking is a frame of mind and you have to know, be able to read. And that's a lot of it. And the individual athlete also has to know that it's a frame of mind. And so when you have a coach that's reading that the right way and you have an athlete that is knowing that when zero hour comes, you're going to be ready to go and knowing that there's light at the end of the tunnel if you feel like your vernacular that candle at both ends. Light's coming to the at the end of the tunnel. I mean, you're good to go.”

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  47. “It's a matter of repetition and having an open mind and being extremely accountable and not only accountable that when you maybe, when something doesn't go your way, that you look in the mirror and own it, but accountable to the point of view that what I got to get tough in this situation right here, right now, and this is what's going to make or break me. And I talked about my own career being defined by a couple of minutes on the mat. But that's when you're going to be defined. That's how you're going to be defined. That's okay. So people are going to talk about you. So you might as well have them talking about how doggone tough you are.”

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  48. “It has to do with that, and it has to do with understanding why we're doing it. And sometimes understanding why we're doing it might not come for months, but there's blind faith. And we have a heavyweight in the room right now, this young guy that he's like that. He doesn't necessarily understand it. He asks a lot of questions, but he doesn't. And he's been here four months now, four and a half months now, and he's getting better every day.”

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  49. “You train mental toughness by putting them in situations that they're. Willing to go through, but don't think they can make it, and then they go through it, and then all of a sudden those barriers are down.”

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  50. “With mental, emotional, spiritual, physical. Everything that you know about, you know, I had a boss, and our athletic director is a great athletic director, and he gives us everything we need to be successful. But I had a boss, his name was Fred Mims, and I didn't think anybody could be better than him. And then all of a sudden, this Gene Taylor guy came in. And then he was pretty doggone good too. And he actually, you know, was just like Fred and maybe even a little bit more current. And then he ended up taking a job at Kansas State where he's an athletic director now. And then this lady, Barbara Burke, comes in. And I didn't think anybody could be better than Gene Taylor or Fred Mims. And this Barbara Burke, she's better than both of them. And the reason why is because she's a problem solver. She doesn't waste time. She's direct and she's a problem solver. And that's what we need. You need problem solvers.”

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