Wrestling legend Dan Gable was one of the most dominant competitors and coaches in wrestling history. He is best known for his tenure as head coach at the University of Iowa where he won 16 NCAA team titles from 1976–1997. He is also famous for having only lost one match in his entire Iowa State University collegiate career – his last – and winning gold at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Germany, while not giving up a single point. October 25, 2013, will be recognized as Dan Gable Day in Iowa. Here is what Gable had to say sterids and facing ster*id using opponents in wrestling:
“I knew I was going to wrestle in the finals of the Olympics against a Russian and I knew he had been training specifically to beat me, but then I knew the guy was on ster*ids, That would help me. Whereas some might think ‘oh he’s cheating, for me you didn’t pay the price. You’re not as committed as I am. It’ll tear him apart. He may be strong, but all I have to do during that 9 minutes of wrestling is loosen one single wire in his brain, make him do something that isn’t perfect, and he’ll fall apart.”
“Besides the health effects, what you lose when you use ster*ids is mental toughness. The key to victory is that the strongest mind wins. You can get physical strength with ster*ids, but you lose the mental toughness (you would have gained) from brutal hard work. Ster*ids hurt mental toughness by serving as a crutch.”
