Being from a country like Iran which unfortunately right now is like the worst country to be from in America, you still want to be an American. When you actually sit down and talk to people, you just realize people are people, you just make friendships.

Any sport that lasts six minutes, that's it, you can just imagine how intense it is, only six minutes long.If you try something, if you try a move, if you take a single leg takedown and it doesn't work, you don't give up. You don't give up you will succeed. I think it's very parallel with the stuff that you have to do in the real world.

I think great teachers, which coaches are, are the ones that you hear.

There's going to be government and politics that aren't representative of everyone. So, we have to really take it by a person by person basis, we can't just say, hey, this guy looks like this, or he's that religion or he wears this kind of clothes, your skin tone is this way.

Fight, fight, fight and more fight. If you have that burning desire in you, if you're just one of those guys that does not like losing and you fight and you fight and you fight, that's what makes you a good wrestler.