OOH …Here’s One Thing
Here For You
by Jim Johnsen,
Managing Director, Johnsen, Fretty & Company
Kygo – Here For You – Ella Henderson (Live)
https://youtu.be/CPQldYTf5GE?si=jfSZRaI5x5pOgHGX
What a better way to herald in the summer than a little yacht rock. I got invited to a Kygo concert a few years back. Never heard of the guy. Concert was fantastic. Only problem was my friend and I were the only guys over 50 (actually over 25) in the place. Talk about feeling like a stalker! All the same, the music does sound really good while standing on someone’s yacht with a rose in hand.
Speaking of summer, I had a chance to attend a fish fry on Friday, courtesy of Robinson Outdoor. This was a first for a sheltered Yankee. But it was a ton of fun and I did get to rub shoulders with Marshall Faulk, a Superbowl champion, an NFL Hall of Famer and one of the best running backs of all time. I did get to hit a few golf balls with him and even better, late night, listen to him wax eloquent about his phenomenal glory days, his post NFL career and his philosophy on life. Here are my three key takeaways:
- Rejection makes you stronger. He told the story of getting recruited by lots of colleges to play football, under one condition, that he play cornerback. One famous coach, whose name I will not mention, told him he would never make it as a running back. Only one school, San Diego State, agreed to take him on as a running back. Needless to say, when he had a chance to play against the aforementioned coach, he blew the doors off and enjoyed shaking the guy’s hand after the game.
- Strive for nothing less than perfection. After watching him hit a few balls I thought, okay he is at a totally different level. I asked him what happens when he takes a couple days off. He told me, hey the wheels come off just like the other guy…but then I go back to range, hit a couple thousand balls for a few days, and next thing I know, I am shaping every shot just like a want to again. I approach golf the same way I approached football. (He did then admit that the 2,000 balls included sometime on the practice putting green too).
Marshall Faulk is serious about his golf – The San Diego Union-Tribune (sandiegouniontribune.com)
- We all stand on someone else’s shoulders. Growing up in the projects in the 9th Ward in New Orleans, Marshall Faulk attributes a good deal of his success to the local YMCA and some of the selfless adults he bumped up against while playing basketball and baseball there. Without the guidance of a few, including his mother, things good have gone so much different. He now tries to give back as much as he can to youth sports with both his time and funding from his foundation.
Number 3 really stuck in my head, and ironically, I stumbled on this article on my plane ride home:
This is The Accomplishment That Matters Most | by Ryan Holiday | May, 2024 | Medium
Great article about how each and every one of our greatest accomplishments are the fine men and women we mentor who go on to do great things. Here is an excerpt:
“By all-time wins, someone like Gregg Popovich of the San Antonio Spurs is a great coach. Five NBA championships, twenty two winning seasons, two Olympic medals (one gold, one bronze) and a winning percentage of .657 But his coaching tree is unreal. Players like Tim Duncan and Tony Parker and Manu Ginóbili and Patty Mills and Kawhi Leonard and now Wemby. At one point, nearly 30 percent of all the coaches in the NBA had worked for or played under Popovich, and his protégés have, independently, won eleven championships as head coaches (and one G League championship). Five times, someone from his tree has been named the NBA Coach of the Year. Of the current twenty-three black head coaches and GMs in the NBA, seven spent time under Popovich at the Spurs. Becky Hammon, the 2022 WNBA Head Coach of the Year, spent eight years with the Spurs, where she was the first female assistant coach in the NBA and the first to serve as an acting head coach after an ejected Popovich designated her his replacement (she won two-straight WNBA titles as a coach too).
Gregg Popovich’s coaching tree is so extensive, as one sportswriter put it, that it’s actually more like a coaching forest.” (Ryan Holiday)
That got me thinking. Do Jeremy Male, Scott Wells, Sean Reilly and Francois Decaux wake up every day and think to themselves…today is the day, this year is the year, this decade is the decade I am going to make someone (and hopefully many ones great? I’d love to know the answer to that. After meeting Marshall and stumbling on the article, for sure I am looking forward to training the two new analysts we have coming on board.
Wishing you a great week.
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