When you get on
the mat you have to be focused on the task at hand. It’s your
match to be won or lost and no one else’s. Some things you just
have to take personal.
The wrestler who
won’t quit will always have a chance of winning the match and on
the other hand if you mentally give in you will not have much of a
chance of winning.
The
concept of being or becoming a competitor is an attitude and desire
to go out and brawl every time you go out on the mat, no matter whom
your wrestling or what may happen during the battle.
You have to be a
competitive person to become successful in wrestling. The
willingness to keep fighting until the match is over even if your
losing is critical to your success.
If you don’t go out and compete your hardest every single time
then your not really giving yourself a fair chance of becoming a
successful wrestler or in winning the match.
Don’t
take practice for granted, the practice room is where competition is
learned and refined.