This district has a great run of wrestlers from 125 on up. We might have four or five state place-winners wrestling here.

You're nervous. You block everything out except maybe for your father and your coach. There's no one to blame but yourself.

Three times we wrestled. I guess they were one wrestler better than us.

We wrestled with everything we had tonight. We were all rooting in that last bout for a pin. It just didn't happen.

We normally get the ball rolling in those middle weights and it usually keeps going after that. Unfortunately we were flat today and now we're going to have to work twice as hard in practice now just to make up for it.

Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that transforming laughter without which no hint of the ultimate reality of the opposites can be faintly intuited.