You're speechless sometimes when you think of the support you've had from the first day I've started wrestling to now.

Most of my fights, I push the pace. I'm the aggressor.

Sometimes the silence of your friends is worse than your enemy's words.

I'm just so surprised about all of this that I'm speechless. I never expected that I would be the first one to win a medal for Japan, so I didn't feel that pressure. But I'm very happy that I am the one who won it.

I told coach Mayer before wrestling started that this could be the day that he finally gets taken down, but it didn't happen.

It should be a good day of wrestling, with a lot of good semi-final matches.