100 Quotes by Ben Askren

If your coach ain't got your back, who's got your back?

I've been around the block. I travel a lot to gyms.

Wrestling is a worldwide sport. It's totally international.

My view on wrestling in MMA is changed a lot since I started really doing it.

I try to wrestle one time a week with good, solid people.

In wrestling, if you want to be the best wrestler, you show up at the U.S. Nationals. If you win that, you go to World Team Trials. You make the World Team, you go to the World Championships, and we all know who the best is at the end of the year.

I think people realize that I'm one of the best welterweights, whether I'm number one or number four or number five or number six.

So I think there's a lot of people who are really interested to see how good I really am, because they know I'm good, but they're not really sure how good. They want to see that, and there's definitely interest in that, but because of some other people's shortsightedness, maybe it never really happens.

When I say something, I generally stick to it, no matter what it is in life.