"the following is a conversation with tom brands olympic champion and world champion in freestyle wrestling three-time ncaa wrestling champion at university of iowa and one of the greatest coaches in t..."

"what's the best motivator for you or for your athletes hatred of losing or love of winning for me personally it was definitely the hatred of losing i was not a guy that was about pageantry i was not a..."

"question you know i don't know how to answer that so there's no losses that just that eat at you still there's opponents that i have learned a great deal from i mean my loss to john smith in 1991 us o..."

"knew that i 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 it you can't you know feel your calf muscle you know and i got to get..."

"won't do it anymore and so to learn wrestling it's more of a probably a relaxed approach so if you have to choose between two athletes who would dominate competition one who drills 100 000 reps of a s..."

"in my experience what i've seen uh communicating the value of repetition and drilling is a hard thing to communicate it's hard and it's very rare to have somebody that goes in there and will do it on ..."

"right i mean you could be a great guy for a for an a for a coach as an athlete and you did everything that coach asked but you did nothing more so you're really looking for the guys that go way beyond..."

"differently just let exactly so letting letting athletes uh be part of their own development communication to me is is is letting them know what their what they need to do to get themselves in content..."

"that understanding and that's has to do with symptoms that you see in the wrestling room there's something where the father is not doing with mental emotional spiritual physical everything everything ..."

"something that maybe you or maybe even iowa in general is a little bit known for so how do you train mental toughness as a coach you train metal toughness by putting them in situations that they're wi..."

"better every day so mental toughness too is a matter of repetition so that's mental toughness it's a matter of repetition and having an open mind and being extremely accountable and and not only accou..."

"think peaking and burnout are frames of mind or burnout as a is 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 m..."

"the thing is is we we have to accomplish what we need to get accomplished and get better every day you can't kind of accomplish what you need in companies you have to accomplish it and when when you'r..."

"eternal the only thing that's eternal is death you know there's nothing sometimes guys come in there and they wig out oh it's an hour and 25 minutes and or an hour and 45 minutes oh yeah you have to b..."

"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 you know you're starting to shrink your body down and it's that ti..."

"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..."

"both a lot of twins there's a dominant twin oh a lot of them very few times is there a situation where you're gonna i'm gonna win every time and everything and then he's thinking the same exact way an..."

"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 lockstep in that hallway in our offices and when you deviate outside ..."

"rear end bad yeah and the thing is is we maintain a high level and there's very few programs so oklahoma state ohio state now penn state i mean there's four programs that try to win a national title e..."

"1996 olympic games in atlanta can you take me through the day when you're going for the 62kg what did you eat drink what did you think oh it really doesn't matter um i have a routine that you know i h..."

"you're right that is the hardest bracket i've seen so i've talked to a lot of olympic champions this is the hardest bracket i've seen of any champion so uh maybe i'm confused on this but it seemed lik..."

"your identical twin brother terry you've been adam like you said your whole life and you're both some of the greatest wrestlers of all time you won the gold medal he won the bronze medal you've mentio..."

"can communicate so what control is there can you control everything how big of a role is luck control how you react to an injury control that so you can't you don't have any control over it it's over ..."

"by the way yeah but do you see the the shakespearean tragedy of it all that uh the line between winning and losing so you'd often say that you know winning is everything but it feels like especially a..."

"it's a balance you often talk about iowa's focus on creating individual champions like spencer lee can you explain the philosophy of focusing on individuals versus the team i think that we need to put..."

"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 what do you mean by everything so the like there's just..."

"i don't think that that's a bad thing to have that mentality i mean i think a kudukov i remember a story i read about him he comes to mind um you know sargosh i remember when he lost in london and i r..."

"can get dinged for points you can get thrown out of tournaments there's rules with um flagrant misconduct where you're kicked out of the match other team gets the points and then you have to sit the n..."

"intimidating there's a legend to john smith it's the same thing but they can't up for john smith they get up for oklahoma state they get up for penn state my question is okay i'll answer it this way i..."

"of you know either you you could go all day long and it doesn't you have to you have to shoot me to stop me yeah but there's a balance because you're not going hard with and holding your breath it's n..."

"so what's the future of iowa wrestling look like with this facility and this momentum you have now and this great group of guys you have now we have a good young group of guys and um you know there is..."

"the biggest thing for me is i gotta turn over the things that i can't control turn them over to that power and i'm gonna be a lot better off and that's the reason why i'm not in the funny farm because..."

"platform it's not it's not doing this for my ego we're not corrupt people we're not liars and cheaters and so often uh that gets in the way of a decent person yeah first and foremost you're a good per..."

"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 mirin costello warner and th..."

"problems like i talked about earlier that's part of the family the other part of the family is the coaches are like family the other part of the family is the coaches significant others and wives are ..."

"it's from the restless to the family it goes back to what i said earlier about our people our people are great ryan morty star is great bobby telford is great bobby telford took over for a guy named b..."

"to address it quickly and those outliers you know let's solve that problem let's get it out in the open here right and if there you know if it doesn't work out it's not going to work out that's a heck..."

"flinch on that starter block it's a false 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 w..."