Ben Askren Quotes

In college wrestling, you see a lot of talented athletes come in and fail because Division I class wrestling is the pinnacle of wrestling in America.

In high school and college all my friends and my brother wrestled.

When I was a kid, I wrestled my high school amateur wrestling in junior year.

I was a high school wrestler. I was city champion.

After my freshmen year of college, I really wanted to pursue wrestling.

When I started wrestling, I was still in high school.

I'd like to wrestle for as long as I can.

Once I started wrestling, I really got into it, and I just knew that I wanted to do that - I wanted to wrestle all the way through college.

I'm very happy with my wrestling.

If you had asked me in my early 20s or in high school if I was going to wrestle, I would have laughed at you.

I always wanted to wrestle, but when you're a kid, how do you do pro wrestling? For me, it seemed like the easiest way for me was to get into amateur wrestling and go that route because it was a place where I was allowed to go.

I started wrestling when I was eight years old with the amateur wrestling team in Mexico.

I did high school wrestling. I was first in the state of Florida and ninth in the nation in folkstyle. Freestyle and folkstyle wrestling I did for years.

I was one of the best wrestlers in Ohio.

I grew up a wrestler; for a long time in Oklahoma I was a wrestler.

After watching wrestling for 20 years, I thought I had enough confidence to do it. There were no wrestling schools at the time.

I am not the son of two people skilled in wrestling; nevertheless, I am a skilful wrestler.

I'm a wrestler, so I'm used to not being paid, and I'm used to doing five or six competitions a day and paying someone else to allow me into the event.

There's a couple guys that I'd like to wrestle, but truthfully, I want to wrestle as many guys as I can.

I got into wrestling when I was four years old.

I watched wrestling for the first time on television while in Punjab, after which I started working seriously to become a good wrestler.

All young wrestlers would love to see their game back in Olympics.

Through wrestling, my second home was Fort Myers, Florida.

There is no age limit to wrestling.

I never was an amateur wrestler.