Life Lessons from an Olympic Hero | Dan Gable | Talks at Google 

Anyone who understands wrestling, even a tad bit, can barely fathom how incredible his accomplishments are as a wrestler and as a coach... quite an exceptional human being and an inspiration

"That's why I'm here...For my sport and my family. FOR MY SPORT AND MY FAMILY!" Passion personified is Coach Gable.

I can honestly listen to Dan Gable tell stories for days. What a man. I’m jealous of every Iowa wrestler and Olympian that were good enough to be coached by him. How do you say no to someone that is honestly one of the most honest and genuine humans we have left in this country.

I haven't wrestled in over two years. I've graduated and moved on to new pursuits in the world of endurance sports. Hearing of Dan Gable as a freshman wrestler set the chain of events in motion that have led me to where I'm at now. I'm training for my first 50 miler in March. I've come to know that there is so much more valuable knowledge to come from successful men like him, who embrace discomfort and enjoy it than guys who just live by motivation, who need to be told to get up at 4 to run, the guys who can't operate on their own frequency, the guys who don't know what it's like to not be born a world-class athlete. Guys like Dan Gable remind us that life sucks, and that's alright, life isn't supposed to constant fun and enjoyment, the suffering is what makes us feel, without it we wouldn't know what happiness was.

The story of his sister during his high school wrestling career is insane. What a way to push through the hard times.

Still ate up about a single loss from 50 years ago. Dan Gables is a national treasure.

I am cracking up because the greatest of my sport does such a great interview when the interviewer has few chances in the get in a question. Gable is a GOAT.

Absolutely legendary man. He is very special.

Thank you Google for posting this interview! Dan Gable is a national treasure. A plain spoken man, willing to talk about some very personal memories as a way of giving insight into achieving success in life and your chosen interest. Powerful!

bjj guy who loves Gable.... so inspiring!!

I have tremendous admiration for Dan, and as a former wrestler and state champ (and about Dan's age) I can directly relate to much of what he says. But I'm amazed that he still has not learned much about nutrition. He apparently went by standard dietician/government sanctioned recommendations as did I back then, but with old-age health problems I went back to the drawing board and learned that the old standards are flawed. There is better scientific knowledge out there to be learned and applied. Approximately 20 years or so ago Dan broke his hip due to osteoporosis. In some of the old wrestling videos you can see him with his crutches. He was not that old. That was likely due to a nutritional deficiency. So, Dan, if you happen to read this, you are at an age now when nutrition is especially important. I'm 74, and have been through serious health problems cured with nutrition and supplements. I am an arborist. I can still climb and do professional tree jobs.

Dan weighed me in for high school Natl. in 1976. What an honor!

Love this man. Lucky enough to know him on a personal level.

Such an amazing and inspiring person.

His words echos in my mind. Ill be pondering about this for awhile.

Dan Gable is pure class! He is a true example of a real American hero!

this needs more views

That story about his sister is haunting.

That loss fucks with him still. Unbelievable.

Awesome video

Gable is amazing. The interviewer ... sorry buddy, but not so much. We need someone who understands the sport of wrestling and can dig into Dan's take no prisoners attitude. He has an uncanny ability to have tunnel vision. Let Dan do this thing!

Now that was a lot more wisdom than I was expecting. This is a deep guy. I love the ability this guy has to keep it real. He doesn't hide the vivid issues and memories of life that he used as fuel to propel him to success. I have 3 life damaging events that this talk will help me to evolve from. Thank you "Talks at Google" and Dan Gable.

I cant believe this doesn't have a million veiws

See comments about the hosts lack of guiding the interview, however I feel he was just in Awe of this incredible man, hence he became what so many of us rarely do, and that is Present, hence he just became an observer and listened.

how do you cut off Gable?? i was interested in the last two questions!!

What a genuine guy. Reminds me a little of my mentor President 💙 Ikeda

how the fuck does this not have a million views?

3:21 YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS i always told people this shit. THIS pertains to anything with high level skill and competition. your thinking CHANGES in a more efficient way once u break that barrier and reach tough milisecond competition as i like to call it, you breakdown and analyze your actions and opponents to improve! then you can take this and apply to other skills and trades and get quick results. i was the .5% of world of warcraft players when it had 15 million suscribers not exactly an athlete. but not many other people played from ages 14-21 to memorize 120 different keystrokes (1,2,3, cntrl 1, cntrl 2, cntrl 3, q, shift-q, alt-q) etc etc and use them on the most opportune moment more efficiently than others. they say you are an expert after training 1000 hours of whatever it is you are training. i have 370 days played on my warlock. thats nearly 9000 hours. my most notable partner was the #1 2v2 priest in the world at the time. we played 8-16 hrs a day since we were 14 to age 21. he was a 16 year old living in florida. he is now a doctor. alot of us were addicted teens to world of warcraft who i played with. most of us stopped and engage in physical fitness. so i picked up on what dan gable was trying to say quickly especially when i noticed most of us were overachievers off the computer when we spent our a large part of our youth playing 16 hours of wow a day. i carried on the mentality to boxing and brazilian jiu jitsu. i surpassed people who were training for 3+ years in 6 months using good genetics, diet, knowledge and the burning desire...borderline addicted... to improve...to be better.

I know I’m late to the show here. But the people that said it’s only a wrestling Match simply don’t understand why that match was more than a wrestling match. He came from an alcoholic home. His dad was physically abusive. His sister was raped and murdered in their home. He moved in to her bedroom so they wouldn’t move because his parents wanted to sell the house. His wrestling kept his parents together after his sister died. He said he was wrestling for her and in other interviews has said he felt if he won it would help bring healing to his family. He’s obviously got major PTSD. The pressure on him was enormous because the weight he felt to win was to give his parents something to be happy about. When he lost to Larry Owings it wasn’t just losing a match. He felt he let his sister down and his mom and dad. Fast forward to the 1972 Olympics. When he’s on stand with his gold medal and they’re playing the national anthem, he’s looking down. He explained he didn’t even hear the anthem because he was having flashbacks of his sister. The picture is online. He’s still so driven because it’s affecting him til this day. So it wasn’t about losing a match. That’s the trigger and the symptoms were the emotional turmoil. After he lost he called home from Ames which is 100 miles from Waterloo and told his mom he was quitting. He was drinking some beers with his friends at his apartment. His mom said I’ll be right there. She drove 100 miles, walked in with his friends right there and slapped him across the face and said get it together quit this crying now. Put it behind you now. Something like that. Loose paraphrase. She proceeded to turn around and walk out and drive back home. So the weight he Carried traces back to his sister.

Proud to be born in waterloo Iowa

I'm from Ireland, I don't anything about amateur wrestling but Dan Gable is truly inspirational!

Thank you

Anyways gable was my hero as a kid I still love listening to him

Amazing how one match remains with Dan Gable. Just a few minutes in his life...

I wrestled a bit in high school & about 2months of wrestling practice in junior high during my 8th grade year i think i took 2nd in the county. In the mail ? 1day came a brochure to go train w Olympians & National Champions Iowa Hawkeyes trained by Dan Gable who set all time records it was a 10 day camp ? I never progressed so much in 10 days in my life. i was 1 of the youngest kids training. It was great. When arrived in Iowa they took us on a little plane to get to the University the plane was very shaky i was 12 yo ? I didnt wrestle my freshman year. So i missed that season ? I wrestled the off-season freestyle cadet tourneys my 1st competition i break my wrist against Mike Giuliani from Massapequa ? Rushed to the hospital casted my wrist. Kept training took 2 weeks off coach took the cast off my wrist was BAD REAL bad it wasnt heale. Won a few tourneys took 2nd in State Cadet loosing to the current State champ who had 5 yrs of wrestling exp. I at the time had about 3months and had a broken wrist i later avenged that loss in the same tourney a year later. I came back sophomore took 4th in state. My junior year i went 17 - 1 my sophomore year which was my 1st TRUE season i went 27 - 2. Before QUALIFY Tourney of my Junior year i was told by CoachJones i was ineligible ? Due to 1 extra absense ? The principal was a nut who was later FIRED FOR IMPROPRIETIES to say the least.i competed mma many yrs ago i did pretty good

Awesomeness

enjoyed that entire interview.

I truly wonder what Coach would say if asked this question: is there such a thing--such a danger, as "overtraining?" We all know you can do too little--but can you do too much?

Dam I am a current wrestler and I aspire to be as good as you.

Legend 🔥

Dan is the greatest Athlete/Coach combo of All-Time in any sport.

I watch wrestler's today, the ones that lost by an inch or less. Like Aaron Pico, who won everything until he lost in international competition to someone as I recall from Iran? Anyway, I sat there thinking "Aaron could have won--IF he had been one of Gable's boys" , but...he wasn't. How many others with great talent who fell just a fraction of an inch short, might have won with this guy as their coach and mentor? Fact is, we will never know.

None better ever, PERIOD!

Larry Owens the ghost that never dies

Gabes, I think pretty much that way, too.

Over training is the number one problem elite athletes have especially triathletes or drowning in ironman meets which causes one problem death

If that second guy asking the questions after what Mr. Gable just told us, asked those kind of questions to probably any wrestling coach I’ve ever met he’d get his ass whooped.

Dam

Has there ever been two obviously opposite ends of the spectrum as Dan Gable and this kid "interviewing" him?

Hey Dan. Me and my 11 month old love you. Can you send me a match used singlet signed by you? It would mean a lot to my 11 month old.

Hutchins, _HeartStrong_: Nautilus HQ, '72-'87, 3 serious subjects made it past 3 -4 exercises of the HIT session w/o nausea &/or delirium &/or marginal coherence. 2 were cross-country skiers, w/o enough muscle to generate a high metabolic load. 3rd: Gable. Hutchins made no conclusion. My conclusion: Gable's the single greatest test subject combining, physical&mental strength&endurance.

I found this pretty rambling and disjointed...there were parts were I was unsure what he was talking about, and *I know* the Gable story. Dude is the GOAT of wrestling and even more so of coaching, but his public/motivational speaking could use work.

Stan table

Google even spy's on America's greatest

The millennials in the room are like..what’s wrestling? How do you get that game on ps4?

Ya actually Dan lost 6 times not once but hey who's counting

And I wrestled thirty years

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He does not kinda, sorta answer the questions, interesting though.

why is gable the only wrestler people really remember he has that elan that you cannot quite put your finger on but n he has it

I like Dan but losing g a wrext.ing match is a joke compared to real adversity I lost my rectum my mom fell down the stairs my dad died dog got run over and now I am broke I don't think a losing a wrextling match is a big deal

You want to know want adversity I lost my mom dad dog my rectum to cancer car got totaled ya wrestling a joke compared to what I have gone thru

Lost all respect for Gable when he accepted the "Medal of Freedom" from traitor Donald Trump.

incredibly boring