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Welcome to the website of Thomas (TC) Dantzler Jr., 2008 US Olympian in Greco-Roman Wrestling at 74 kg/163 lbs. The fact that you are on my site when you can be any place else on the World Wide Web means that you are “now” READY for GREATNESS.

Before you start your dynamic tour of Greatness here is a foreword about the author (which is me. I’ve always wanted to say that about myself.. lol) the next paragraph is written in third person for purposes of entertainment:

Thomas (TC) Dantzler Jr. was genetically engineered with the perfect DNA from Barbara and Thomas Dantzler. The cybernetic unit went from concept to prototype in 9 months. The first and only prototype of its kind was engineered to completion in October of 1970. Since his creation there have been several upgrades to his chip which is located in the control panel on his back underneath his Omega Psi Phi tattoo. The prototype we are speaking of Thomas (TC) Dantzler Jr is currently at version 8.63.04.

After viewing my site and reading the second paragraph on this page you can infer that I love the movie “The Terminator.” For those who have not seen the movie here is brief summary of one of the best action movies of all time: Terminator traveled back in time to kill Sarah Conner because her son John Conner started a revolution in the future that taught the human race how to defeat the machines in a war for control of the earth. The Terminator played by the now Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, would stop at nothing to find Sarah Connor. He was very close to invincible, man I loved his determination to stop at nothing. After many decades of thinking I have come to the conclusion that my quest for the Gold is similar to the Terminators quest to find Sarah Connor. The parallel is that we both will stop at nothing. Welcome to my world!

If you cant tell by now I LOVE to have phun and laugh in a colossal way. In ways this is very contrasting to the way I was as a child. My Mom says I was a very serious baby and child. I do know I was very shy for a long time during my childhood.

Growing up in Harvey IL, until the late1980’s (before I left home for college @ Northern Illinois University on a scholarship) has shown me that life is too short not to laugh and laugh hard. It has also shown me that life can get real serious real fast, so enjoy a good laugh whenever you can. Quoting Annette Manley “I love it when a person has a good hardy laugh.”

I say all of this say ENJOY my site and please ENJOY life.

The poem “If” by Rudyard Kipling has inspired me to make it through some very rough times in my life. My life has not and is not always laughs. Please read the poem and hopefully during a rough time you can be inspired to keeping fighting as I have done so many times in my past.

In closing I sincerely invite every visitor to my site to leave me a note under my Bio tab.

IF

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream–and not make dreams your master,
If you can think–and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ‘em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings–nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And–which is more–you’ll be a Man, my son!

–Rudyard Kipling