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Tom Brands

lines on the record: 71
first: 2021-11-30
most recent: 2021-11-30
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“Communication to me is letting them know what they need to do to get themselves in contention to be the starting quarterback. and then to give them And compliments when they earn them. And I don't have time to waste with lies and cheating. And when I say cheating, I'm talking about when they cheat themselves. And so those become very direct conversations. And the conversation starts like this. I don't have time to waste and neither do you. And so why are we wasting our time? And here's what I mean by that. We're having a conversation about your accountability. You look in the mirror and you're accountable, then we aren't taking the time to go through this. We're already on our way to solving the problem. Problem can't be solved without that understanding.”
2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think you are born with it. You develop it also. And I think that there has to be comfort. And I go back to the communication that young people are comfortable enough to communicate that I need to take the day off.”
2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Don't want guys that are looking at their watch running out of the room when practice is over. We want guys that know what they have to get done and they might leave early. But they're not looking at their watch. They might be done early. They might be on a whole different path. And this guy just excuses himself. I'm all about that. We are not autocrats”
2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And it's rare. And the guys that do it on their own and have done it on their own are the guys that are in that lineup and doing well. The other thing is that when you talk about getting to that next level, a lot of times it's what held you back was I did everything the coach asked of me and nothing more. I mean, you can be a great guy for a coach as an athlete. And you did everything that coach asked, but you did nothing more.”
2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think it's rare. I think it's very rare. And I think it's especially rare. I mean, you can talk about that as a coach, but it's especially rare to bring a guy to that understanding, but you never stop trying. You're always trying to reach him. I mean, we didn't have a good performance out there tonight, but you know what? You don't stop communicating. And there's a lot of programs out there that put their head down when things aren't going their way. And then as things start going their way, then they rise with the tide. There was no difference in the demeanor of our corner. And we talk about that. That's a philosophy. And so you're reaching your guys that way. So go back to your point or your question, you know, do you believe in the 10,000 reps? And yes, I do.”
2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm talking repetition, technique, technique, technique, drill, drill, drill, hit, hit, hit, drive, finish, hit, hit, hit, drive, finish.”
2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, you know, I learned, and that I was young, I was young. And I remember being born, my mom's sister lived out there, and we were dropped off to stay out there with our cousins, and I was born a little bit. And they always treated us really good. But this was like the single most bright spot in a weightlifting, like enlightenment, even though I lifted weights, but I never knew the psychology behind lifted weights just to look good. And so you could flex and look in the mirror, or is it for performance? And this guy was about performance.”
2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, as a matter of fact, I had a strength coach when I was really young. He was just a freaking guy that he wore white, like he was almost like a nurse, nurse's clothes. He wore all white from head to toe, and he was in Cheyenne, Wyoming. And his first name was Walt. And he taught Terry and I to hate the bar away from you on that last rep when you're dead. And whether it's a curl you hated up. And then you do the negative and you hate it down and you hate that bench up and you hate it. You look at the bar and you hate it away from you.”
2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Both. It's the same. And I like to live wrestling. I was always wanting to live wrestling. Bring the warm up into the live wrestle. Let's go. But where I got really, really good was a repetition. And I was disciplined enough to know that the things that you hate. Do in this sport are the things that make you the very best, and that is a rare ingredient as I've gotten older. And you spend a lot of time communicating that to younger athletes.”
2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There's not a place for it with young people because in my opinion there's so much development to have happened. I mean, when you need to learn wrestling, you need to be wrestling. And as you get older, your body won't do it anymore So, to learn wrestling, it's more of probably a relaxed approach.”
2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Relax more like where you know what I was pretty dang good and I was getting better every day but maybe do it a little bit different a little bit smarter and Terry actually did that going through 2000 he had to do it and he would have been in the you know the funny farm let alone the you know the physical farm whatever you want to say mentally and physically beat up but he had to learn to Less is more type approach. And how it came around was you work hard at feeling good. You work hard in your recovery. So even when you're not. Wrestling hard in that wrestling room and looking for the toughest partner to go, you're still working hard in your recovery. Massage could be that stretching could be that things like that that are more fluffy.”
2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In terms of the coach, in terms of the coach, yes. And I knew that Gable was close. I mean, I didn't know when, but it just so happens, you know, 97 was a record-breaking year, and then he retired. But I didn't know how close he was, but I knew that he had, you know, he went down with a bad hip injury. And so, you know, you're not going to.”
2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I would be more probably in my older age, I probably would have been more relaxed in my training and probably would have went another cycle if I could do it over again. In 96, I really thought that when Gable retired that I would be the next guy in line. And I was wrong. And that was immature of me.”
2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I knew that this is what this is about, and you know what you move your feet and you don't give up a lace that's so damn tight that you can't feel your calf muscle. And I got to get ready for the consolation side of the bracket because I believe that was in the semis. You just learned from that. And it was better than learning from. Know a win over a second ranked senior level guy when you're a junior in college, you rest on the best on a stage.”
2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I learned that I had to move my feet. And I learned what it meant to move your feet constantly. And there's no rank. John Smith is very, very intense competitor that people know that now, six-time World Olympic champion. And I felt that firsthand. But I did not go in there taking a back seat, even though the score. Was very lopsid”
2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There's opponents that I have learned a great deal from. I mean, my loss to John Smith In 1991, US Open was something that I learned a lot about. I learned a lot about positioning. I learned a lot about the importance of partair. You know, in a certain kind of crazy way, I learned that I could go with the best guy in the world, even though it was 14 to 4. And this is when tech falls were 15 or 12 points. I didn't get tech fall. And that wasn't a badge of honor for me. But I knew I could go with it because it was one-point takedowns. I scored four takedowns on him.”
2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm a guy that remembers my career that well. I know that I am judged on a very small portion of my life in this minutes of wrestling matches. You know, a lot of winning, but there's some losing in there too. And people think they know you because of that. And they think they know you because they see you in a press conference. You know, to go back to the original question. I don't know how to answer that.”
2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So maybe that. But what I meant was it's when a coach says, okay, finish with four ropes. Bunny push ups in four way neck, you know, I would do 12 or 10. That's rare.”
2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's the thought that drives you in your training. That's why you do nine ropes when Gable says do three ropes and buddy push-ups and you're out of here and you do nine or you do them until you can't do any more. And it's a very rare ingredient. The older I get, the more rare I find it is.”
2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There is the lure of winning, but what drives you is that as you move forward, there's just no... Reason that you have to settle for anything but being the best. And if it just would get to you to the point where that's not going to happen to me again.”
2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Me personally, it was definitely the hatred of Lou Zine. I was not a guy that was about pageantry. I was not a guy that was about the parade. When I wrestled in Atlanta, I ran in a three-cylinder geo with my wife, drove home and mowed the lawn because it hadn't been mowed for a month. And I remember one of our neighbors driving by and they were like, they did a double take. Like, well, I thought he was in Atlanta. Well, I was in Atlanta yesterday. I just sat on the stand and got a gold medal put around my neck. That's how I was. That doesn't mean that it was the right approach or the wrong approach. It's just what worked for me.”
2021-11-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source