 So I left through a couple things, right, three T's, I'm going to think about those three T's, about minds, about finding what's in your way and getting through it. Right, there's no way you can go from state, from state qualifier to state champ in an hour. Right, we all know that. Probably not in two hours, in three or four hours, but six months. Six months, now we're starting to think maybe we can juggle up. I was JV this year, I won E.T. matches this year, I won three matches this year, I won one in ten next year. Just going to take a lot of work. There's no magic thing, I just want to take some concepts with you. How many guys train at a compound? Yeah. Okay, both of you guys from Florida here? You guys are good, you have really good basics here. I mean with this group, with your learning capacity, you guys know how to wrestle. We've got an hour, three T's, I share with you, three things you have to be able to do. Watch, set up your start, to be great on your feet, you'll see some stuff like this. You really elite guys, right, they'll do something like this, right. Now they'll take this drag and they'll just take it and make it the most beautiful thing you've ever seen. Right, they drag it, they feel they don't have it because the guy steps away and they do this, right. And they hit the bullseye every single time. Their forehead is riding a crook of the knee, it's not through, that's not good. Their forearms flat on the mat on the other side, they're posting ears, their foot's off, they're driving down beautiful. We've got to be able to get this side. So this is on you, you guys are blessed. You've got the internet, when I was a kid growing up there was no internet, there were no cell phones. There was one phone in my house, it was in the stair of the kitchen. And had a really long, I would stretch that cord as far as I could to try to talk to my friends. Hey, what's going on? Couldn't hide in my room my cell phone. No internet, I couldn't watch any wrestling. Once a year I could watch the nationals on TV. But I had a buddy that got me a tape on Arson Puzzai, I was a Russian, I love him. I don't love him, I still do. I watch him all the time. You can watch him, you can Google his name, Arson Puzzai. You can watch Kyle Snyder, John Smith. You can watch the best in the world. You can learn from them, that's why we're so good right now. That's why America is one of the best countries in the world now. There's only learning opportunities, there's no reason for you not to know it. So I tell my guys this, you better be the expert. Don't count on me to be the expert. You run your life. Mommy ain't running your life. Daddy ain't running your life, you're running it. Yes? You set the alarm clock. You make your lunch. You do your laundry. You clean your room. You clean up when your friends leave the house. Yes? Learn that early. You are in charge of your wrestling and life. So I leave you guys with this. You guys really go right. One side, this side, this side, and a front handle. Alright sit down. Here's what I got for you. I'll leave you with this. I love wrestling, it changed my life. It's not a wrestling instead of creating. You know why? Because I got caught in the basketball. You know how mad I was? I was mad. I thought it was really good. I remember like yesterday. I scored 12 points a game. Second grade to sixth grade, CYB basketball. Loved it. Seventh grade came around. Three middle schools joined together. There were more kids. There were like 20 kids trying out. 11 kids made it. Here's what I do. I showed them to school. I know I made the team. I'm sweet. I look on the wall. That's what they did when I was a kid. I looked in the lobby on the wall. I looked for the name. My name wasn't there. I was coming. That's what I did. First, I didn't have a cell phone to call my mother. I might have. It was a pay phone down the hallway at the front of the school. And I didn't have a quarter. So I went into the coach's office. And I just represented myself. What did I say? What did the guy say? I said, my name is not on the wall. Mr. O'Leary. I remember his name. I love Mr. O'Leary. I can see the whistle around his neck. I said, where's my name? And he said, you can make a team. Is there anything I can do? No. You can make a team. You try to wrestle. I was kind of dressed like that long. I tried to wrestle. Did I go on that night with the dinner table? My brother just started wrestling at night. He said, you can wrestle. I said, no, I'm not. You can wrestle. No, I'm not. The head coach at Ohio State is talking to you right now. Wrestling? He's like, you're out like no way. Why not? I'm not wearing the same one. No way. I'm not wearing the same one. I'm not wearing the same one. You're going to wrestle? No, I'm not. Finally. He goes, you wear shorts and a t-shirt in practice. I go, oh, really? All right. I'll give it a try. First day I went to get some idea. I fell in love. Not even a single. I fell in love with it. I loved it. So here's what happens. Seventh grade, eighth grade. I keep getting better and better and better. I'm starting to do pretty well. And I get offered a scholarship to college. And I go to college. I accepted a full scholarship at Syracuse University. Two years later, my brother and I were roommates. I left. I walked on an aisle and changed my life. I understood suffering. I understood suffering. I don't know what it was. It was the camps I went to. I suffered. I connected. I suffer a lot. And I come home from camp. And my dad would say, you want to go back next year? What would I say? No. No. And the season would come around. And I got way better. And all the guys were beating me. I was not beating. So when the summer came around, what did I say to my dad? I got to go back. So I went back. And I got better. But wrestling was my God. Wrestling was so important to me. It still is. But it's not my God anymore. There's two types of suffering. I'm challenging you to constantly find pain. Sometimes it's physical. But chase it. Because you only grow when you're under duress. If you have any easy practices, and some practices are designed to be easy, but some aren't. And when they're not, you better dig. You better dig deep. And the more you suffer, the more you're going to grow. It's just a fact. I know nobody that's up here that hasn't suffered. So connect that. Second thing is to unshows when you're suffering. Does anybody know me personally? Does anybody know my life story? I shared some with you. Some of you know me. February 16, 2004, I was the head coach at Hofstra. I'm at dinner with my family, four kids. Life's great. And while at dinner, my youngest son, Teague, who was five at the time, falls over and dies from a massive heart attack at the dinner table. He was healthy. He was at practice with the old dad. It was President's Day. It was February 16, 2000, President's Day. We spent the whole day together. Me and my four kids. There was no school on President's Day. It was Monday. And he falls over. And we rush into the hospital. My kids stay at the house. And we get to the hospital. And I call my brother. And I said, I don't know what happened. Teague fell over at the hospital. Meet me there. The whole family gathers. About two hours go by. We're waiting. We're waiting. We're in the surgeon. He comes out and he says, we're sorry. I drive home from the hospital. I get to the front door. Guess who's at the front door? Teague's reached two older brothers and a sister. So don't miss this. If I'm putting you to sleep, don't miss this. If there's anything I said today, make this the thing that you hear the loudest. And the most clear. I get up to my house. Open the front door. I didn't open the front door. My car pulled in. My kids, when you're little, you're at the front door. When your dad comes home. That's the way it is. Or mom. When you're older, you're out the back door. What you know is the front door. Where were they? Front door. Teague was five. Jake was eight. Jake is getting married this week. A couple of weeks. September one is getting married. Graduates from Ohio State University. My older son at the time was 11. He graduated from Ohio State. But at the time, he was eight years old. And I get to the front door. And I open the door. And what did he ask me? What? Teague up here. Yeah, where is Teague? Pretty logical question, yeah. It's amazing what happened when we used common sense. And asked the right questions in life. Asked the right questions. He said, where is he? What do you think I said? I'm going to tell you something. I was 36 years old. I was a grown man. I was leading people. I was coaching a team. My team was doing well. Life was good. I had a pool in the backyard. I had air conditioning. I had a car. My wife had a car. Life was good. Everyone was healthy. He said, where is he? I didn't know. I didn't know. But I'll tell you what I did know. I knew every guy in my team what their tendencies were. I knew I would recruit in the country. Or the ones that would impact our program. There's a lot of things I could tell you, but I couldn't tell you where it was. So guess what became my priceless? You got a priceless? I'll tell you what I got a priceless. Here's the deal. If I taped your mouth shut, which most men aren't very good at, being quiet, right? When you get married, you'll learn this. If you just shut up, life will be way better. The older I get, the better I'm getting it. If I taped your mouth shut, and I followed you around for one month, what would I learn? I'd learn what your priceless is. I would learn what is most valuable in your life. So for me, if someone followed me around, they would have said, my children, and rest. What's your priceless? What do you stand for? Who are you? You think you're invincible. You're not. I did too. We're going to be wrong. So guess what happens? I get a vision correction. My life's going to change greatly. Because guess what happened? I quieted the world, and I considered what? I considered where he was. That single question transformed my life. What is the meaning of life? How did I get here? Why am I here? I'm going to share two options with you. And I've talked all over the country, and no one's talking about the different options. There's only two. There's only two. And the quicker you make a decision, the better. You don't get to look and to not choose. Anybody here want a new pair of wrestling shoes? Your shoes are ripped. You don't have any for the season. You need a new pair of wrestling shoes. You don't shop around and not buy, right? At some point, you've got to what? You've got to make a decision. You've got enough information. The Snyder is a little better attraction. The Burroughs has a little this. This one has this. And this one has that. You get all the data that you want to choose. So guess what I did? I got so much data, guys. I considered the only two options that are out there. One option is true. One option is not true. In the wrestling shoe scenario, they're both nice. Can't go wrong. Can't go wrong. In this one, you can. Because one's true and one's not. Are you with me so far? I'll beat it up. What's your name? Tyler. Tyler and I wrestle for an hour. I don't even remember going, hey, wrestling's cute. Tyler, you're going to look at stud, big traps, forearms are popping out, nice black socks. Looks good. Beat him 100 nothing. My wife goes, oh, that's great. High school kid. Oh. Tyler goes home, gets out of there, calls his mom. Hey, wrestle coach Ryan. Talks a lot. I beat him 100 nothing. So here's my point. You have two options. You get to decide. You will not be forced. You will not be forced to decide. But you are. So option one is that you are here. And I weigh this by chance. You're here by chance. A billion years ago, something exploded. And over the course of time, it went from something in the water that was one cell, and it split. It kept splitting. And then eventually, the first human being was formed. That's one option. I'm not telling you that that's right or wrong. But I'm just posing it to you this way. The other option is to pull our opposite to that. One, what I did, my price became finding out why I was here and where he was. So I took a piece of paper. I put a line down the middle. I put chance on this side. And what I put on this side. On this piece of paper is chance. On this side of paper, God. I'm not trying to impose on you. I'm just trying to expose your mind to something that you have to come to terms with. You, it's one or the other. So I studied it. I learned about it. Here's what I did. I told God, yo, yeah, start writing stuff down. How can you let this happen? Sonali, 250,000 people dead. There's a God in that. Lots of reasons on this side. I got up in DVD on evolution. I wrote them all down all this stuff. But on the God side, Jesus Christ said he came. He said he was. How could every person have their own fingerprint, exactly a different, every person that ever walked on earth has a unique fingerprint. No one turned up in the scene. Every hair in your head says he knows. How could something that looks like this happen? My chance. This building is a hunk of junk compared to you. It's a hunk of junk. The space shuttle. Garbage. Tesla. Garbage. Dell computer. Microsoft. Garbage compared to you. But those had a maker and you didn't. And I didn't. I'm the fanciest thing on earth. I'm the fanciest thing on earth. And I'm the same as you. We're fancy. We're made incredibly well, man. There's so many things going on in us right now. We're fancy. Hey. It's one or the other. I challenge you. I'll tell you what. Anybody on Twitter? Alright. Instagram? I'll tell you this. If I'm recruiting you, I follow you. And I look at who you follow. Follow Kyle Snyder. Who follows him? Who follows him on Twitter? Instagram. Follow him. If you're online, follow him. You'll see what he posts intentional. His mind is amazing. The only thing he can produce is fruit. It's the only thing he allows in. When someone tells you not good enough, don't listen. You'll have to listen. But you will. Like I did. Some guys told me you'll be a good division to repel a person. Memorants. I'm not listening to you. I don't really hear that nonsense. It'll be a constant battle, right? There's a constant battle up here. You guys are special. You're brave. You're human beings. You're the fanciest thing on earth. God bless you guys. Good luck to you guys. Go Bucks. He's the best. Tom Ryan. You guys are a special group. We're just glad you're here. Tom, thank you so much for being here. And if you need anything, and I'm sure guys if you need anything, he's a good man to talk to and a good man to follow. Let's get it in on Coach Ryan. You can do the go Bucks if you want. That's a good thing. They already tried to do the go cyclins earlier, so you've got to do this. You think he's telling you to do the go cyclins? One, two, three. Go Bucks!