Jordan Burroughs Quotes


It's one thing to never accomplish anything. You start from the bottom, you remain at the bottom, and all you know is the bottom. When you start at the bottom and you get to the top, and you feel the success and the notoriety and the recognition from being the champion, and you go back to losing, that's a tough place to be in.

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Defeat
Failure, Failures
Motivation, Motivations
Success
Achievement
Defeatism
Disappointment
Downfall
Losing
Notoriety
Recognition
Triumph
One Thing
Champion
Championship
Climbing
Citations

Burroughs, Jordan. Interview by Kathryn Tappen. NBC Olympics, NBCUniversal, 19 Aug. 2016.

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Jordan Burroughs
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Jordan Burroughs
  • Born: July 8, 1988
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Athlete
Biography

Jordan Ernest Burroughs is an American freestyle wrestler and graduated folkstyle wrestler who competes at 74 kilograms. In freestyle, he is the 2012 Olympic Gold medalist, a four–time World Champion (seven–time medalist), three–time Pan American Games Gold medalist, four–time Pan American champion and four–time US Open National Champion, making the US World or Olympic Team in nine occasions. In folkstyle, Burroughs was a two–time NCAA Division I champion for the Nebraska Cornhuskers and was awarded the Dan Hodge Trophy (equivalent to the Heisman Trophy) in 2012. Burroughs is widely known for his double leg takedown and is considered one of the greatest American wrestlers of all time.