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We can talk IQ s*it all we want but at the end of the day the mfer who wants it more is gonna get it. I might not be the best ball handler or shooter but ain’t nobody gonna f*ing want it more than me and that’s a skill by the way anyone can possess
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Terry Francona says Michael Jordan never accepted being told no when he managed him in the minor leagues, and says he wanted to win at anything and everything including Yahtzee
“Well, in Sarasota, when I was with the White Sox as a Double-A manager, we used to meet at 7:00am every morning, in this trailer, and you go over the day. I was kind of half asleep, and all of a sudden I heard, ‘Michael will be assigned to the Birmingham work group.’ My life changed like that. I went from just being happy that our games were on the radio, and I didn’t know it at the time, but it was probably the greatest learning experience I’d ever been put in.”
“And then when he was going to play in the fall league, I had already been in the fall league, so they wanted to kind of keep it, but he said, ‘I want him.’ I think he knew I knew the lay of the land, and I had learned how to navigate his life. He was great, man. I’m telling you, the first thing I told him, I said, ‘Michael, you’ve got to respect the game of baseball.’”
“And I kind of explained to him how much money these kids weren’t making. You’d have a hard time getting me to say something negative about him. He was awesome. But so much of baseball is repetitive, year after year after year.”
“You can be the greatest athlete, but to try to jump in, unless you’re Bo Jackson, it’s really, really hard. When I get asked if I could have made Michael a legitimate major league starter, the way I’ve always answered it is, you need to get a thousand at-bats under your belt before you can even make a determination. He had about four or five hundred. I also found out when you tell him no, he’s going to find a way to make the answer yes.”
“And that’s not just baseball. That’s ping-pong, tennis, golf, I don’t care, Yahtzee, you name it, man. He’s going to try to beat you. He’s going to find a way.”
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“If you don’t have that burning feeling, in your stomach, like if you’re not getting up to play KD or Steph... it’s like, I’ve done lost my drive of what this game was all about, and that’s competition.”
TWO NBA OGs.
ANOTHER CHAPTER OF KD/STEPH.
9:30 PM ET ON ESPN 🍿
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You don't look like your goals, you look like your habits. Effort never lies.
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Tom Brady lost a perfect 19-0 season because of one little habit with his finger.
Osi Umenyiora, the Giants defensive end, caught it on film two weeks before the Super Bowl. He pulled the whole defensive line into a room, showed them, and they went out and sacked Brady 5 times.
Here's the habit. Brady would walk up to the line and point at somebody on defense before he yelled "hut." Osi says that whenever Brady pointed, the ball was snapped on "hut," and whenever he skipped the point, the snap wasn't coming. He went back through all their games and says it held 100% of the time.
That sounds small until you think about how a pass rush works. On every play, the offensive linemen know when the ball is getting snapped and the defense doesn't. That's their whole edge. The big guys up front get to move first, and the pass rusher has to sit there and react, already a step behind someone who outweighs him and only has to get in his way.
Osi basically took that edge away from one of the best offensive lines in football. The 2007 Patriots had three Pro Bowl linemen. They scored 589 points, the most in NFL history at that point, and Brady got sacked just 21 times in 16 regular season games.
The Giants had actually played them in the last week of the regular season and lost 38-35. They got to Brady once that night. Five weeks later, it was the same quarterback and the same line, and the Giants sacked him 5 times and hit him 9 more. Osi says the difference was the two weeks he spent watching tape.
And get this. Earlier that same season, the NFL had fined Bill Belichick $500,000, the biggest fine any NFL coach had gotten up to that point. They also hit the team for another $250,000 and a first-round draft pick, all for filming the Jets' defensive signals from the sideline. So New England paid $750,000 and a first-rounder for stealing signals with a camera, and their perfect season ended because a defensive end found Brady's own signal sitting on regular game film, totally legal, for free.
Osi didn't even get a sack that night. Before the game, Brady had said his number one job was keeping #72 and #92 off him, meaning Osi and Michael Strahan. Justin Tuck got two sacks, and Strahan, Jay Alford and Kawika Mitchell got one each. Osi went home with 4 tackles, a hit and a fumble recovery. He found the most valuable piece of information in the building and gave it to everybody else.
Rookie Jay Alford sacked Brady with 19 seconds left to seal it, 17-14. Four years later, Brady said he still couldn't watch highlights of that game.
Osi Umenyiora says he discovered Tom Brady's pre snap cadence and knew when he was going to snap the ball ahead of Super Bowl XLII, and says it allowed the Giants defensive line to dominate the game with 5 sacks and 20 hurries
“But as I was watching the tape, because you have two weeks leading up to the game, I noticed that Tom Brady would come up to the line of scrimmage. And this is real information I’m giving you here, worth millions of dollars. I’m giving it to you right now. And there’s people recording this to pass it on to their players.”
“But what I noticed was he would come up to the line of scrimmage and he would say ‘hut,’ which is telling the center to snap him the ball. So what he was doing was he would come up to the line of scrimmage, and before he said that, he was pointing at somebody, maybe somebody on the opposing side. And if he didn’t point at that person, that means they weren’t going to snap the ball. But if he did point at that person, the ball was coming as soon as he said ‘hut.’”
“So after I watched this, I studied this for literally a week. I went back, I watched all the games, and he was doing the exact same thing, but nobody had figured it out. So I saw that, and I went and gathered the whole defense, and I was like, ‘Listen, this is what this man is doing.’ If you know when the ball is being snapped as a defensive line, you are at a tremendous advantage over the offensive lineman because they’re relying on you not knowing.”
“Because if you don’t know, that means you’re going to be late. But if you do know, you’re going to beat them almost every time. And so as soon as I figured this out, I gathered the whole defensive line. I was like, ‘Listen, this is what Tom Brady’s doing.’”
“Now we all started to watch this together, and we saw this was 100%. It wasn’t even like 80. This was 100%. So now we knew going into that game that, as a defensive line, we were going to be able to overwhelm them offensively simply because of that one thing that I had pointed out.”
“And we went into the game and we sacked him like five times, hit him like 20 times. They couldn’t understand how we were getting off the ball and getting to him that fast. And it was simply because, for two weeks prior, I just sat there and I had watched what this one person was doing, and that gave us the mental advantage going into the game. We knew we were going to win that game even though nobody else did, because we knew something that they didn’t know, and nobody else knew that we knew.”
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luck is just randomness that goes your way. increase your exposure to randomness by putting yourself out there; make it go your way by being irrationally resilient. do both and i guarantee your ‘luck’ will increase.
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Kobe was right when he said:
“It's not the number of hours you practice, it's about the number of hours your mind is present during the practice.”
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Peak Mindset: Give it your all, leave nothing on the table, and let the chips fall where they may.
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"Playing hard is a strength.
Playing hard is a skill. A lot of people think skill is dunking or passing and shooting.
No, playing hard is a skill."
You don’t build consistent effort by giving it occasionally.
Your standard is the effort you repeat.
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A big choice in life is accomplishment versus savoring life.
Savoring life is taking a moment to smell the roses, enjoying a beautiful day, and making sure you have time with the people you love. Then there's the other side, which is accomplishment and impact.
You have to discover for yourself where you are and how you deal with those choices. The key, and the most effective path, is where they align—when you can make your work and your passion one and the same.
#RayDalio #LifePrinciples
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14 years ago today, #15 Texas A&M beat #1 Alabama 29 to 24. Texas A&M jumped out to a 20-0 first-quarter lead and sealed the upset when defensive back Deshazor Everett intercepted AJ McCarron's fourth-down pass at the goal line in the closing moments.Redshirt freshman quarterback Johnny Manziel accumulated 345 total yards (253 passing, 92 rushing) and two passing touchdowns, cementing his path to winning the Heisman Trophy.
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Everyone has bad days.
Champions don’t let bad days become bad standards.
You can’t control how you feel, but you can always control how hard you compete.
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Anthony Davis first half MASTERCLASS:
30 PTS | 8 REB | 10/11 FG | 2/2 3FG | 100 TS%
