Wrestling motivational quotes are intended to inspire you to do your best on the mat. No other sport will push an individual to their limit in such a short period of time as wrestling. The oldest recorded sport, wrestling pits one will against another in primal combat.
All former wrestlers on any level have a bond that is knowing what it takes to prepare and be competitive at this sport.
Team sports build a person in a totally different way. When you are on the mat it is just you and the man across the mat. There is no one else to blame for your failures, and no one else feel the pump of success. There is a place for team sports, camaraderie, and the like. This is not that place.
You will never learn more about yourself than you will by being a wrestler.
Here is a great motivational quote for wrestling. It is about life but when you read it you will know it is really for wrestlers.
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." -Theodore Roosevelt
I want to share a few clips from a great wresting movie Visionquest. One of the best wrestling movies I know of.
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"The only thing that matters in wrestling are your teeth and your testicles. Anything else, keep wrestling, stop whining."
“No exercise brings into play all the muscles of the body in a more thorough manner, and none is more interesting than wrestling. He will find no other exercise more valuable in the cultivation of faculties which will help him to success in agility, strength, determination, coolness, and quick exercise of judgement.” - Hugh Leonard
“This is a sport (wrestling) that has turned many boys into men and many men into leaders. And it is a sport in which you can be a giant regardless of how big you are.” - Carl Albert
“But it's the wrestler who can put the fatigue out of his mind and break through the "wall," like a marathon runner after 18 or 20 miles, who will survive. The key to that survival is in hard workouts that develop mental confidence to the point where you won't submit to fatigue and pain descending upon you.” - Lou Banach
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