Dan Gable radio interview with a San Diego sports station

Last week, wrestling icon Dan Gable did an interview with San Diego talk radio station XX 1090 AM.

The subject in the beginning is his gold-medal win in 1972, why Gable felt he was primed to win it, how he approached the tourney. But as things go with Gable, it veers off into a lot more than that, and it's all interesting in my opinion.

"The worst thing the Russians ever did was tell me four or five months before the Olympics that they were going to find someone who was going to beat me," Gable said. Meaning, that motivated him to get all that much better.

The interviewer is John Kentera. I'm guessing California sports talk radio doesn't do much with amateur wrestling, but Kentera clearly welcomed the chance to have Gable on his show.

Click here for the link to the interview.

Said Gable about Iowa: "We can farm, and we can wrestle."

It's a long interview, and I think it gets better as it gets longer. Asked about his three male grandchildren, ages 5, 6, and 7, Gable says this: "They were born to wrestle."

Here is

a great 2009 Seattle Times story about the one match Gable didn't win. The loss, Gable says, more than anything else, is what pushed him to greater successes.