Does John Smith still wrestle with the guys in practice? Does he go live at all?
Kelly: When I first got to school there, he wrestled with us a lot. He’ll drill with the guys occasionally. The last time me and him wrestled was when I made the Olympic team. He kind of called me out, so we hooked it up a little bit. How did that go? Kelly: Um … I won. He probably won’t admit to it. But, you know, I won. He was good at really getting the intensity out of me sometimes. You get with the guys in practice, a lot of them, you get to kind of have your way with them, and you know exactly what they’re going to do. So, sometimes he would go with me, just because he knew how he could bring another level out of me. He came up to me, just a random day at practice, and was like, ‘I know that I could have made the (Olympic) team in 96 and 2000. Now I’m going to see if I could have made the team in 2004. I kind of looked at him like, ‘I can’t believe you just said that to me.’ But he knew that would get kind of a rise out of me and bring my intensity level up. Just little things lik
