BlueBolt Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 Each year I find myself posting this question in in one form or another. It's important to reflect on the important things we learn in life I guess. In 1986 I learned a very interesting piece of triva while on a road trip to Bloomington. I learned that I learned that Side One of Led Zepplin IV is 60 minutes long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naco228 Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 I learn that when you drop a lot of weight, you enjoy food soooooooo much more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boot Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 If you start running a tilt and your opponent looks at you and smiles, be afraid because you're about to take an elbow to the nose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparticus Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 cant eat as much when you graduate high school........lol :-X Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebestthatneverwas Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 If your in a bar don't mess with anyone who has calliflower ear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevinl Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 No matter where you think you are on the mat: If you take a shot you are closer to the edge of the mat than you think. If your opponent takes the shot you are farther from the edge of the mat than you think. Seems that is still true whenever I take a risk thrty years later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimtown 138 Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 Never judge a book by it's cover... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
outsidersview Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 If your in a bar don't mess with anyone who has calliflower ear. Haha I love this!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueBolt Posted February 10, 2010 Author Share Posted February 10, 2010 No matter where you think you are on the mat: If you take a shot you are closer to the edge of the mat than you think. If your opponent takes the shot you are farther from the edge of the mat than you think. Seems that is still true whenever I take a risk thrty years later. VERY WELL PUT! Excellent! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
army197 Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 ive learned you can shove anything into a bleeding nose... ANYTHING lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insanoflex Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 My high school coach used to have a saying that went like this: "If you're early, you're on time. If you're on time, you're late." Very simple but also very applicable to anything you do in your life. I share this with my wrestlers every season. That and "girls and wrestling don't mix." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimtown 138 Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 Quote from my high school coach Don Farrer- "It'll feel better once it quits hurting"... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammer Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 I have learned that "The older I get, the better I was" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattM Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 I have learned that "The older I get, the better I was" More like the older I get the smarter I am about how to stall against high school kids in practice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WingMan Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 1. Never ask your wrestler what they weigh. 2. Act like you don't see your wrestler weighing themselves with the food they are about to eat on the scales with them (usually balanced on the head). 3. Never under estimate the parents of your wrestler's opponent. They can be great and they can be nasty (and when I say nasty, I mean nasty) 4. We go to gyms where there is no room for spectators but every year we act like it is the best venue since sliced bread. 5. We wait to hear that one spectator yell at the official, this way, the coaches don't have to. 6. The skin "funk" vocabullary... 7. Watching this website and reading about below level wrestler's who someone picks to win... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebestthatneverwas Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 If your under shorts are smiling back at you from both sides it's time to wash'em :-X Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlittlejohn Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 My high school coach used to have a saying that went like this: "If you're early, you're on time. If you're on time, you're late." Very simple but also very applicable to anything you do in your life. I share this with my wrestlers every season. Similar version... "To be early is to be on time, as to be on time is to be late, and to be late is inexcusalbe!" -Bruce McGeth Tech H.S. Track & Cross Country Coach Social Studies Teacher He had this on his blackboard his entire teaching career and always cautioned at the beginning of each semester, "Do not enter this classroom after the bell without a note from the dean." This is an adage that I live by! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mykidgrapples Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 after a few beers, you should never taunt one of your kid's buddies from the wrestling team to "come on man, try me" ESPECIALLY if he is good and outweighs you by 45 lbs. within 5 seconds, he had my right foot stuffed in my left back pocket.... pulled my hamstring, missed 3 days of work and spent 2 months going to the choiropractor... TRUE STORY!! and that kid is ranked at 215 Btw, I never wrestled... But hey I've seen alot of matches.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueBolt Posted February 11, 2010 Author Share Posted February 11, 2010 What I have learned is this: Life, with all of it's trails and tribulations, is far easier than wrestling ever will be. Wrestling does not prepare us for life...Some lives are just MEANT to expirence wrestling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlittlejohn Posted February 11, 2010 Share Posted February 11, 2010 I need wrestling more than wrestling needs me! I learned this as a teenager and still believe it to this day. I was a problem/lost child and the wrestling community gave me someplace that I felt I belonged and helped me to mature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeavyHands Posted February 11, 2010 Share Posted February 11, 2010 When the lights are out, but the spotlight is on, anything is possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awood2 Posted February 11, 2010 Share Posted February 11, 2010 I need wrestling more than wrestling needs me! I learned this as a teenager and still believe it to this day. I was a problem/lost child and the wrestling community gave me someplace that I felt I belonged and helped me to mature. Lj, this is priceless. I wish we started every season with this quote. Thanks for pointing this out again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fmedina119 Posted February 11, 2010 Share Posted February 11, 2010 I need wrestling more than wrestling needs me! I learned this as a teenager and still believe it to this day. I was a problem/lost child and the wrestling community gave me someplace that I felt I belonged and helped me to mature. Amen! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trinedad Posted February 11, 2010 Share Posted February 11, 2010 The harder you work, the luckier you get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCMOM Posted February 11, 2010 Share Posted February 11, 2010 I need wrestling more than wrestling needs me! I learned this as a teenager and still believe it to this day. I was a problem/lost child and the wrestling community gave me someplace that I felt I belonged and helped me to mature. The reason we give so much of our time...if just one boy in our wrestling family feels this way it's worth it! Thanks for posting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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