A successful wrestler must know his opponent's strengths and weaknesses, but most of all he must know himself, his own limits and capacities. Not everyone matches up the same way. For instance, I always welcomed the chance to take on an overly-muscled opponent and was apprehensive if a tall strapping type appeared opposite me. I had more difficulty with. As for rules, wrestlers learn to live within disciplined limits.
Life is that way.
Or at least it should be. Likewise, as I have taken a look from a congressional perspective at what has been dubbed the Whitewater affair, what is so disconcerting is not just the personal aggrandizement so apparent, but the gall of political privilege, the notion that some people considered themselves unconstrained by the rules. It doesn't work that way on the wrestling mat. It shouldn't in society. In conclusion let me than the Wrestling Hall of Fame, especially Myron Roderick, for helping me perpetuate the tradition and history of wrestling.