Reflections on Wrestling, Discipline and the Will to Win

· Reflection

I loved to wrestle. I was not a gifted athlete, like some that I met over the years. My greatest strength when I went into a match, was that I would say to myself, I have run further, lifted more weights, practiced more and want to win more than my opponent.

Black-and-white photo of two wrestlers grappling on a mat marked with a W in a university gym, one wearing a Huskies singlet, as a referee in white watches and spectators sit in the stands.