Athlete quotes from Session 3 of the World Freestyle Championships
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John Fuller (USA Wrestling)
09/13/2003
Men's 96 kg/211.5 lbs. - Daniel Cormier tech. fall Ricard Paulikonis (Lithuania), 10-0, 2:58 "I like being in front of a big crowd like this. It's good to have fans behind us." "(Women's wrestling) is good for the sport. They bring another aspect and we feed off of them too." Men's 120 kg/264.5 lbs. - Kerry McCoy pinned Davud Mahammadov (Azerbaijan), 2:32 "We took a couple of hits last night and this morning, but our goals remain the same. We want to win all the golds. We want to win 5 golds." "He tied me up a little more than I wanted. I just kept moving and finally was able to create an opening." Women's 48 kg/105.5 lbs. - Patricia Miranda tech. fall M. Del Mar Peralta Osuna (Spain), 11-0 "There are so many perks that come with being at home - like the crowd cheering for you." "I anticipate every match to get better and better. I'm at a potential peak. I'm knocking on the door of doing my best wrestling." Women's 51 kg/112.25 lbs. - Jenny Wong dec. Teresa Piotrowski (Canada), 6-1 "I didn't really think about us being undefeated. You always want to start the day out right for your team. We had such a great day yesterday that I just wanted to keep it going." "(Japan) has been doing so well on the women's circuit. Now, we're just starting to show what we've got too." Women's 55 kg/121 lbs. - Tina George dec. Elvira Rasulova-Mursalova (Krygyzstan), 10-2 "I got bit pretty good. I have been bit in a match before, but never like that. She did something illegal and I don't condone it. At first I thought it was by accident, but then she started gnawing on it." "I was trying to just score four more points at the end. That's what I needed for a tech fall and to get off the mat. For me to go six minutes is not a big deal to me, but it frustrates my coaches." Women's 59 kg/130 lbs. - Sally Roberts dec. Seba Jimenez Valderrama (Spain), 5-0 "I think it's the greatest thing because of (the fans) intensity and their love. We fed off of it." "We're at the top of our game right now. We've worked so hard for a year and it's finally paying off." Women's 63 kg/138.75 lbs. - Sara McMann tech. fall Kristine Ordina (Latvia), 11-0, 1:38 "I heard the fans go nuts after McCoy's match and I heard him pin him and that just fired me up more." "This is the first time out of my pool at Worlds. I deserve to be smiling like this. This year, I think the competition that I wrestled prepared me to get out of any pool." Women's 67 kg/147.5 lbs. - Kristie Marano pinned Nori Saito (Japan), 2:13 "I think we feed off each other's energy. I'm always nervous. Wrestling against Japan kind of gave me a fright." "I've been working on that move I pinned her with, but never really been able to get it to work. Today it was just there and I took it."