The 2024 Paris Summer Games is the second Olympics for Myles Amine.
When Local 4 caught up with Amine at the University of Michigan before he headed to Paris, we asked him what he would tell young athletes starting out in sports.
The Michigan Wolverines standout spread the message of dreaming big and making sacrifices.
“I would say three things. The first thing is, dream big. I think that there’s something to be said about setting, you know, goals that are really lofty, that are almost unattainable or seem unattainable. I set a goal to be a four-time NCAA champ in college, and then I ended up taking fourth my freshman year. And I was like, ‘Okay, now I want to be a three-time NCAA champ.’ And, long story short, by the end of college, I made the finals, but I was never an NCAA champ, and I was heartbroken about that, but I said, ‘What if I would have just set the goal to be an All American, maybe I would have fallen short of that.’
“The second thing is, I believe wrestling as a sport that really shows that you can take it as far as you want to go, really, if you're willing to put in the work, and you're willing to, you know, make sacrifices.”
Finally --
“Fall in love with what you do, with whatever sport it is, and that will take you a lot further than trying to be the toughest or, you know, the most disciplined, just truly falling in love with what you do and loving it.”
University of Michigan wrestler Myles Amine
The Brighton native, who is wrestling for San Marino, lost Thursday (Aug. 8), but he still has a chance for the bronze medal on Friday.
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