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Vote: | Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts. |
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Vote: | More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride. |
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Vote: | Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose. |
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Vote: | Wrestling has been a way of life with me day in and day out. I won't get too far away from it. I might walk through the wrestling room once a week. I could go every day if I wanted. But just walk through, make sure it's still there. |
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Dan Gable (born October 25, 1948 in Waterloo, Iowa), has often been called the Babe Ruth of wrestling.
At Waterloo West High School, Gable went undefeated in high school between 1963 and 1966. After graduation, he moved on to Iowa State University where he won two NCAA titles (1968, 1969). His overall collegiate mark was 118-1. His singular defeat was in his final collegiate match in the NCAA tournament to Larry Owings in 1970. Perhaps that loss propelled him to even stricter training.
After college, Gable wrestled as an amateur for three years. It was clear that he was single-minded in quest for the 1972 Olympic Games. During training, he was driven by the possibility that the Russians might be training harder than he. If he awoke in the night, he would do push-ups and sit-ups until he went back to sleep. "Maybe the Russians are training" he would think to himself.
Needless to say, he won the gold medal at 149 pounds (68 kg) at the 1972 Summer Olympics despite suffering from a painful shoulder injury. In fact, Gable did not surrender a single point at the 1972 Games. As an amateur from his high school career to his retirement in 1973, he was 299-6-3 with 182 pins.
Gable became head wrestling coach at the University of Iowa in 1976. He formed a dynasty rarely matched in all of sport. From 1978 to 1986, the Hawkeyes won the NCAA title each year, a record nine in succession. He continued to coach the team until a sabbatical after the 1997 season. He returned in 1999 to coach two more years. His record in dual meets was an amazing 355-21-6 with fifteen NCAA titles.
In addition to his leadership at the college level, Gable was head coach of the United States Olympic team in freestyle wrestling in both 1988 and 2004. Currently, he is an assistant athletic director at the University of Iowa.
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