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George Raveling

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“Being prisoners of someone else's expectations. So I want to live to whatever time I have left. And I want to, as Martin Luther King said, free at last, free at last. Thank God Almighty, we're free at last. I just want to be free of all these fences that society has put up around me. And I want to try to find out where are my outer limits.”
2018-08-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #332: Coach George Raveling — A Legend on Sports, Business, and The Great Game of Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't even know if I said this to my wife yet, so you're going to be the beneficiary of a movement. I now have committed that I'm going to try to give away most of my personal belongings. I'm going to give away my clothes, my books. I'm trying to give away as much stuff as I can to simplify my life. I can only wear one pair of shoes. I can only wear one pair of underwear. I don't need all these things. And so I'm going to rid myself of all these material things that I thought were important at 80 years old. The money's not that I learned. Money's not that important. Collecting things are not that important. How you dress, all those things become what I call surrender. Someone tells you what time to get up in the morning, what time to go to bed, what to eat, what to dress, how to act. And so we end up.”
2018-08-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #332: Coach George Raveling — A Legend on Sports, Business, and The Great Game of Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“to share an old guy told me one time nothing in life is of any value unless you can share it with other people and so that is the essence of me at 80 years old what is it that I have that I can share with others and what can I give away I”
2018-08-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #332: Coach George Raveling — A Legend on Sports, Business, and The Great Game of Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You just got me off the hook. All my youthful advisors said, Coach, make sure you tell people how to stay in touch with you. But technology has helped me create a platform of sharing to try to share. One thing my grandma said to me one time, she was correcting me, and I was a little smart alliky. And so she looked at me in a stern way, and she said, boy, let me tell you something. I know where the potholes are in life. And maybe if you listen to me, I can help you avoid stepping into them. So at 80 years old, I think of my grandma and I say, hey, I know where a lot of the potholes are in life, and maybe I can tell you where they are and share my life experiences with you so that you don't have to step into those potholes. And so that's what I try to do is.”
2018-08-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #332: Coach George Raveling — A Legend on Sports, Business, and The Great Game of Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That have changed the world. If you want to do something that's going to change the world, you change first. And if everybody started to feel that way, we'd have this huge movement of change that would be authentic.”
2018-08-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #332: Coach George Raveling — A Legend on Sports, Business, and The Great Game of Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Make an indelible mark on my brain that it's up to me. If change is about the most authentic change takes place within yourself. And so, and oftentimes in life, Tim, as you know, the most important person you ever get to lead is yourself. And if you can't lead yourself, how are you going to lead other people? And so I would like to challenge people to start to look within before they look out, is to look within. And what are the things that I can do to be a positive change maker in my life and in the life of others? And when we talk about being a positive changemaker, the thought process is this is about trying to change society. But I hear people always say, do something.”
2018-08-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #332: Coach George Raveling — A Legend on Sports, Business, and The Great Game of Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I would say if I could put up a billboard and a message to people, the quote would be if it is to be, it's up to me. Because at the end of the day, each of us have an individual responsibility to ourselves and to our society to figure out ways to be positive difference makers. And it all starts in life. I'm fond of reminding myself that nobody's going to row your boat but you. You've got to get in and you've got to row your boat to the other side of the lake. And so I would remind people, as I said, if it is to be, it's up to me. And that's something that I had on my office door. I had a big sign at Washington State. I had it on my office door. It's something that I've tried to...”
2018-08-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #332: Coach George Raveling — A Legend on Sports, Business, and The Great Game of Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, what I get most excited about is just wait when you're 80 years old, you damn sure better be excited that you wake up the next morning and you have a growth opportunity. I'm still trying to understand like most of us what the future is going to be like and how can I get to the future first and what's the future going to be like but I read a lot of books and talk to a lot of people but I don't know if anybody can really tell you what the world is going to be like five years from now not ten years from now but five years from now we're in a society where it behooves all of us to be comfortable with change and to be comfortable with being uncomfortable”
2018-08-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #332: Coach George Raveling — A Legend on Sports, Business, and The Great Game of Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Everyone's knowledge. And I think to myself, they know something that I don't know. And so I want to value their opinion. So we meet every day as a staff. We talk about things. And it helps me grow and it keeps my day simplified. I try to once a week have a personal audit. At eighty years old I try to hold myself to the most severe standards. And I just despise the idea of retirement. I think that it's the biggest farce that's ever been predicated on us is this idea of retirement. Because the first thing that happens, you retire physically and then you retire mentally and then you're just taking up residence in society. And I don't ever want to be a resident of society. I want to be a contributor to society.”
2018-08-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #332: Coach George Raveling — A Legend on Sports, Business, and The Great Game of Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so to me, to make simplify my day, I will not do more than four things. I try to limit the meetings to two, and if it's two, one of them is usually a breakfast meeting. When I go into the office, I have a total commitment once I get into the office to be totally focused on business matters, try to be as disciplined as I can not to get on the telephone, and also to meet with the two people that work with me. We meet every single day and we talk as a team because I want us to function as a team. I want each person's opinion to be valued. If one person happens to be 50 years younger than me, so what? Their opinion is valuable to me. I respect everything.”
2018-08-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #332: Coach George Raveling — A Legend on Sports, Business, and The Great Game of Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Are to be happy or to be very happy. And there's no other choice. And so then I start to plan out my day. And so I have these points of focus. Energy management, time management, environmental management, productivity. And to me, productivity is a byproduct of the other three. So how do I manage my energy every day so that I can be at maximum efficiency? So one of the things I try to do is declutter my mind. I won't do any more than four things a day. And it reverts back to something one of the presidents at Nike, Charlie Dinson said one time in a leadership meeting. He said, let me ask you guys this, would we be better off doing 25 things good, or will we be better off doing six things great?”
2018-08-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #332: Coach George Raveling — A Legend on Sports, Business, and The Great Game of Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I mean, because I really spend as much time as probably, at least, I wouldn't say probably once a day I'll find an hour to just go someplace and sit by myself. And all I'll do is take a notebook and just put it in a pen in front of me and I'll just sit there and think. Whatever comes into my mind, and then I start to fixate on those things, or I'll write down notes as a result of something that I think or I'll write out a strategy. For example, the way I govern my day, Tim, is I get up in the morning and I put my two feet beside the bed and I say to myself, okay, George, you only have two choices today. These are the only two choices that you have, and you got to make one. And the two choices.”
2018-08-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #332: Coach George Raveling — A Legend on Sports, Business, and The Great Game of Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Any doubt that I have, and I keep saying to myself, you got to go in there, you got to give them your best shot. You can do it. So I'm getting myself fired up for it.”
2018-08-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #332: Coach George Raveling — A Legend on Sports, Business, and The Great Game of Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Try to have at least 90% of the conversations that I have with myself, which I have two or three times a day, that it's positive self-talk. If I start to linger on to something negative, then what I'll do is I'll immediately deal with it and discount it. For example, since I'm Catholic, I'll make this confession. So this morning when I got up, your reputation is so impeccable that I got up at five. I'm really nervous. I'm thinking to myself, God, what if I do a bad job? I'll be so embarrassed. And so the minute I started thinking that, I said, nope, that's not it. Get fired up, man. You're going to do it. And I'm in the bathroom. And I'm doing this motivational talk for myself to eradicate.”
2018-08-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #332: Coach George Raveling — A Legend on Sports, Business, and The Great Game of Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The older I've gotten, the more I've come to the conclusion that the conversation that you have every day with yourself as you characterize it self-talk is so vital. It's far more important than the conversations you have with those around you. And the best part about the conversation with yourself is you're in total control of that conversation. You can craft the conversation any way you want to. And so”
2018-08-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #332: Coach George Raveling — A Legend on Sports, Business, and The Great Game of Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Is the second biggest seller of basketball shoes in the world, basketball shoes other than Nike Inc. And they sell more basketball shoes than under armor or Adidas. And so here you go back to 84, and here today he sits at the head of one of the most profitable sports footwear companies in the world. And what's interesting, which historians will put in their rightful place one day, is Nike was the first Fortune 500 company to take a black male and make them the face of their company. And then I'm sure you're familiar with the Spike Lee ads and all those things like that. And so there was a huge risk in some ways. But one time I mentioned to Michael about Nike taking a risk. And so he quickly came back to me. He says, Nike took a risk. Hey, I took a risk”
2018-08-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #332: Coach George Raveling — A Legend on Sports, Business, and The Great Game of Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so, and Nike would make a signature shoe that would be marketed under this logo of Air Jordan. So when the meeting goes well, we think we got a shot. And so Truder's word, Michael took the deal back or David took the deal back to Adidas. And Adidas passed on it because of the signature shoot thing because they didn't feel there was any market for it. And they still made him an offer, but they wouldn't go on the signature shoe thing. And if I remember correctly, Michael was getting five cents a royalty on the shoe. So at any rate, Michael ended up accepting the offer from Nike and, as they say on television, the restless history. But here we are today. And Jordan Brand is a business of so-and-so. So there's Nike Inc. and then you have these subsets hurly, converse, Jordan brand. So Jordan Brand.”
2018-08-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #332: Coach George Raveling — A Legend on Sports, Business, and The Great Game of Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“He offers me, I'm going to take it to Adidas, and if Adidas matches it, that's it. That's who I want to be. So the fast forward, he ends up him and his mom and dad and David Falk come up to Nike for a visit and the meeting is successful but it didn't move the needle because Michael is still convinced that he should go with Under Armor. But part of Nike deal Adidas. I mean, I'm sorry with Adidas. And so part of the deal was at that time there was no such thing as a signature shoe. And so David Falk came up with this idea of Air Jordan.”
2018-08-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #332: Coach George Raveling — A Legend on Sports, Business, and The Great Game of Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But Michael, so from time to time I would bring it up to him about the Nike thing without being overbearing, and in the very beginning he said, Coach, he says, I have no interest in Nike. I'm an Adidas guy. I'm going to go to Adidas. I don't even like their product. And so every now and then I would bring it up and he would say, coach, I'm telling you, man, it's a waste of time. I'm going to be an Adidas guy. So now we get through the, we're at the Olympics and we get through pool play and we have a day off. And so Sonny Vicarro calls and he says, hey, can you bring Michael, get him to come over and meet me at Tony Romer's in Santa Monica? So I bring it up to Michael. And I think just out of frustration to get rid of me, he just said, okay, I'll go. So we're going over in the car and that. He said, Coach, this is, I'm only doing this for you. He said that it's a waste of time. Whatever I...”
2018-08-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #332: Coach George Raveling — A Legend on Sports, Business, and The Great Game of Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't know if I would go that far, but I was a conduit. So early at the Olympic trials, Sonny Vaquero, who was then heading up Nike basketball, and Phil had came to me and they said, hey, can you see if you can get Michael to visit with us? And so we were still training in Bloomington. So I brought the subject up with Michael. What happened was I don't know exactly how this happened, but Vern Fleming, who was on a team from Georgia, Patrick Ewen, myself and Michael, we were inseparable the whole Olympic experience. We went everywhere together and we were like the four amigos. We'd go to McDonald's. We go to the movies, the shopping mall. Wherever we did, it was always the four of us. And so I developed a really unique relationship.”
2018-08-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #332: Coach George Raveling — A Legend on Sports, Business, and The Great Game of Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Is that right? Well, no, I actually took the global sports marketing job at 63. I actually had put in about eight years in developing this grassroots program at Nike. And then subsequently I got this opportunity to be the global director.”
2018-08-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #332: Coach George Raveling — A Legend on Sports, Business, and The Great Game of Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so he was rubbing to see if the paint because he couldn't figure out. He'd never seen a black person before. And it's a story that's left in an indelible mark on my stay. But that was maybe one of the great trips of all time. I'll tell you one other quick story. We're doing a clinic in Shanghai, and the interpreter comes up to me at the end of my lecture and he says, coach, he says, this coach would like to borrow your rebounding book and he'll bring it back in the morning. So I thought he just wanted to take it home and read it. So the next morning he comes back, sure enough, he gives me the book and he's got 25 copies of it. So overnight he printed 25 copies of the book and gave me mine back.”
2018-08-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #332: Coach George Raveling — A Legend on Sports, Business, and The Great Game of Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Chinese gentleman steps out of the crowd and he comes up to me and he picks my hand up and he rubs my hand, looks at his fingers. And so it was apparent he had never seen a black person before in his life. And he thought it was paint.”
2018-08-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #332: Coach George Raveling — A Legend on Sports, Business, and The Great Game of Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And at that time, it was highly communistic. Everybody dressed the same. The women dressed with white blouse and olive green slacks, and the men had these little Nehru's jackets of olive green, and they had a cap with the red star on it. They could speak no English. And so one day we're in Tenement Square. And Bill Foster's wife had a Polaroid camera, and she was taking pictures. And so she took a picture of a group of Chinese people standing together conversating. And so when it developed, she showed it to him. And it was like, we might as well have been for the moon. We couldn't tell what they were saying, but they were so excited pointing. And then more people came and they had no idea how this was transpiring. So here's an interesting story, Tim.”
2018-08-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #332: Coach George Raveling — A Legend on Sports, Business, and The Great Game of Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Nike sends Bill Foster, myself, and Eddie Sutton to China for a month to do clinics. And so we went to Peking, Shanghai, and Guangzhou. So at that time, Beijing did not exist. Subsequently, Beijing was Peking was replaced with Beijing. But at that time, it was called Peking. And so we went and did these clinics in China.”
2018-08-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #332: Coach George Raveling — A Legend on Sports, Business, and The Great Game of Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Impediment really wasn't, as it turned out, was if you took the stock, you couldn't catch the stock for five years. And at that time, the stock was about six bucks. And so Bill Foster leans over to me and he says, George, take the stock. Take the stock. I'll explain to you later. He said, all these other idiots are going to take the cash. And so the five-year thing ended up being a disciplinary factor because even if you wanted to, you couldn't cash it. So then when the five years passed, Bill called me about six months before the due date and he said, listen to me again. Don't cash the stock. Don't cash the stock. Just let it roll over. You got this far without it. You can get the rest of the way. So anyway, by the time I finally sold the stock, it was up to 46 bucks and it was split. But to go back, so that year in 78,”
2018-08-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #332: Coach George Raveling — A Legend on Sports, Business, and The Great Game of Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“For a momentarily, I thought somebody put me on. So then I said, is it really? He said, yeah, it's full night. I said, what's going on? He said, I just called to see if you'd be interested in coming to work for Nike full-time. And so we talked it through. And I said, well, what do you want me to do? And he said, I want you to come. And at that time, Nike had this camp call, the All-American camp. And he said, I want you to upgrade it, but I want to figure out how we can reach younger kids. And so I still have somewhere in storage the original presentation that I made to him to start a grassroots program. At that time, there was no such thing as a grassroots program. And so that was the start of me working full-time. But I actually started at Nike in 1978. Nike decides they're going to get college.”
2018-08-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #332: Coach George Raveling — A Legend on Sports, Business, and The Great Game of Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It started long before that when I went to work full time for them, I get this call and then we'll go back to the origin. I get a call one night and I answer the phone and the voice says, this is Philip Knight. And that's basically how Phil always addresses it. To this day, if he calls, he's going to say, this is Philip Knight. And so I...”
2018-08-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #332: Coach George Raveling — A Legend on Sports, Business, and The Great Game of Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“All of the four years I spent at Villanova, I was an econ major, an economics major, and at that time they didn't call it this business school, call it School of Commerce and Finance. So I graduated with a degree in economics, and I used to think, God, this is a waste of time. I learned all this. I'm never going to use it. And little did I know that at 63 years old, all this was going to come back to fruition and it was going to be necessary. And so it did pay off.”
2018-08-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #332: Coach George Raveling — A Legend on Sports, Business, and The Great Game of Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's just been a blessed journey that you meet people who are willing to help you continue to grow, especially at 80 years. Oh, you think Tim from 60 years old, the thought process in America was you retire, you get a gold watch, and you live happily ever after. But between 60 and 80, it might be the most productive years of my life, I've grown so much. I was 63 years old, and I get appointed global director of sports marketing at Nike. At 63 years old. So how does you defy the odds? Ex-basketball coach Black, no business background, and you're running Fortune 500 category. And I can remember many times thinking that”
2018-08-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #332: Coach George Raveling — A Legend on Sports, Business, and The Great Game of Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And here I am 80 years old, and I still remember him telling me this. And so I've learned so much. Everyone that, including yourself, have touched my life in a productive way. If I don't read tools to the Titan, I don't learn about mastermind, if I don't learn about mastermind, I kill myself in 20 different relationships. I learn things about people that I didn't know.”
2018-08-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #332: Coach George Raveling — A Legend on Sports, Business, and The Great Game of Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The years of the book, but without Bob staying on me and being relentless and never accepting, no, he helped me find something inside of me that I would have never in my life ever thought I would have written a book or even had the talent to do. But he saw something to me that other people didn't see in me. And that's been a lot of the relevance for this magical carpet ride I've had in life, people seeing something in me that I didn't see in myself. My grandma's seeing something in me. Sister Dolores seeing something to me, my high school coach seeing something in me. My college coach, Al Severance, he said something, Tim, that I'll never, ever forget. One time he was talking to us and he said the first sign of intelligence is to admit that you don't know something.”
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“After me on the phone, he called me one night. He said, Hey, I looked it up in the library of Congress. There's no book in the Library of Congress on rebounding, so you got a unique opportunity. And so I still didn't believe that I could actually write a book. And so he Bob just stayed after me. So finally he said write an outline and send it to me. And of course, we didn't have the technology. So I wrote an outline and sent it to him. So little did I know he was setting me up for us to walk me through this. And so the Marler's story is I end up writing a book called One I was Rebounder's Workshop and the other one's called War on the Boards. That was the thesis and the manuscript for the art of rebounding. I probably sold 100,000 copies over.”
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“That West Coast. And I say, Hi, George Rabbling Assistant at Villanova. And from that moment on, we had a lifelong friendship. And that's how I ended up being the assistant coach on the 84th Olympic team. But maybe Bob's greatest gift to me was that he saw something in me that I never saw in myself and he was relentless to make sure that I achieved it. He said to me, George, if we're going to survive in this profession, we have to become an expert in some phase of the game. And you need to make yourself an expert in some phase of the game. Bob's was defense, and so he said to me, he said, I know you speak a lot of clinics on rebound, and that's your niche. You got to make yourself the foremost authority on the globe on rebounding.”
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“He's had so much influence on the way I think, what I believe. The one thing I learned with John is when you're around John, you taught the listen ratio. The listen ratio should be 90% and the talk should be 10 because if it's any other way you've lost a great opportunity to learn and to be taught because he's a he was, John is a maverick thinker and he was a maverick thinker before the connotation even existed. And the other person, Bob Knight, just had an absolutely amazing impact on him. I was at a Summer League game as an assistant coach at Villenova and at halftime I go down to look at the scoreboard and the guy taps me on the back and I turn and he says hi my name's Bob Knight assistant.”
2018-08-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #332: Coach George Raveling — A Legend on Sports, Business, and The Great Game of Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, I would say two coaches, or I'd actually have to say three, three coaches who have had an immense impact on me as a person, as a coach, my life would be Bob Knight, John Thompson, and Lefty Gerzel. Lefty Gerzelle, I was his assistant at the University of Maryland. He was the one who taught me who fuel my passion for reading. He was the one who taught me that you don't just read the sports section. He actually got me into a system that I still use. When I go to a newspaper now, the last section of the newspaper I read is sports. And that's something that started back with him. He also told me the importance of reading the editorial page every day. And then the other thing was he wanted us to be the best dress staff in the ACC. So I picked up a lot of habits.”
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“Dennis Johnson, who was the manager, I said, when you get back, let me know you're back. And so when he came to my room, I said, how'd he go? He said, Coach, he said, unbelievable. He said, he just continually shot. He said, only took one water break, and he said, he was drenched head to toe. And he looked at me and he said, Coach, if Larry Bird is doing this, what should the average guy be doing? And it was just a great experience. So the next time we scrimmaged, they were fired up. I'm embarrassed to say this. We didn't score a field goal for the first nine minutes. I mean, they were on us like white on rice. They said, you guys think you're hot S, you know? We're going to show you. And Jordan was leading the pack. They were determined, okay, you guys think you're good? We're going to show you what good is.”
2018-08-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #332: Coach George Raveling — A Legend on Sports, Business, and The Great Game of Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So we scrimmaged for 37 minutes and we actually beat them in the scrimmage. And so the word got out and they were livid. So one thing that happened, I picked one of my managers from USC to be a manager for our team. And so when the practice ended, Larry Bird came up to me and he said, Coach, he said, can you do me a favor? I said, sure, what? He says, can you leave a van and a driver here or have somebody come back and pick me up? And so I said, I'll leave one of the managers with a van. So Larry hadn't shot the ball that well in the scrimmage, so he stayed and shot for an hour and 15 minutes straight. And so I told him.”
2018-08-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #332: Coach George Raveling — A Legend on Sports, Business, and The Great Game of Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So Chuck decided that they wanted to put together a group of college players that would scrimmage the dream team twice a day in practice. And so he suggested that I be the coach. And so CM Newton, who was head of USA basketball at the time, call me and ask if I would be the coach of the team. And I said, I'd love to do it. So they picked the players and Bobby Hurley and Chris Weber and a bunch of guys. We only had eight players. And Roy Williams and I coached the team together. And so the first night that we had the scrimmage, I think the NBA guys basically looked at us. This is just a scrimmage of college guys. And so they didn't really take it as serious as we did. The college guys, we were all fired up. This is a great opportunity.”
2018-08-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #332: Coach George Raveling — A Legend on Sports, Business, and The Great Game of Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“What happened was for the first time in the history of the Olympics, the United States decided not to use college players anymore, but to use professional players. And so that year, the Olympics were in Barcelona, and Chuck Daly was the head coach of the U.S. team. And, of course, you had, I think, the only player on that dream team that's not in the basketball Hall of Fame right now is Christian Leitner. He was the only college player on the roster. And, of course, you had Magic Bird, Barclay, Jordan. You name it. So Chuck and I had been lifelong friends back from when he was an assistant at Duke, and I was an assistant at Villanova. And he was a Pennsylvanian, grew up in Pak Satani. So we had a longstanding athlete.”
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“Saying to yourself, mission accomplished. And it was one of the most unique experiences I've ever had in my life to be in a position where you could represent your country and you could feel, have a good feeling about it. I'm sure there will be a lot of people who will question why I felt that way, but that's the truth of the matter.”
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“Yes, that's actually a Bob Knight quote. It was a motivating force because When you stop and think about it very seldom in our lifetime does our country ever come to us and say we need And I can remember vividly in the months leading up to the 84 Olympics in Los Angeles, I would envision that we were going to win the gold medal and we were going to be standing there and hear the national anthem play and to be at attention and look at the American flag. I know that we're in a different era now in a different time, but the reality was this is how I felt. And so I grew up in an era where my grandma taught America, right or wrong, America, whatever the problems are, we'll work them out. But at the end of the day, we're an American. And so I envision what was it going to be like when we stood there and received a gold medal and heard the National Anthem played and you had the satisfaction to say.”
2018-08-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #332: Coach George Raveling — A Legend on Sports, Business, and The Great Game of Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I grapple with this thing about do I give them some money or do I not? In this case, I mean, I really felt good that I was able to do something for her. And she did something for me because she made me feel good that I could trust what she really did is help fortify my mind that I should probably be giving more instead of less.”
2018-08-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #332: Coach George Raveling — A Legend on Sports, Business, and The Great Game of Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Don't think how valuable the little things are, the thank yous, the smiles, the taking time to listen. I had a situation I still grapple with this when people stop you on the street and ask for money. So we were having lunch yesterday and a lady came up and she asked for to spare some money. She wanted to get something to eat or drink. I gave her $5 and I said Now I hope you use the $5 on what you said you're going to do. So she points and there's a little grocery store a few doors down. She comes back, shows me the drink and the $3 change. Wow. So it was a win for both of us.”
2018-08-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #332: Coach George Raveling — A Legend on Sports, Business, and The Great Game of Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We're in a different culture now, and I always think I'm running a little risk, but if I'm in a restaurant or somewhere and a person's waiting on me and he or she has a great smile, I invariably say, hey, you have a great smile. Sometimes I feel a little uneasy when I say it to a female because I don't want someone might think you're trying to come onto him. But at the same time, I'm willing to take that risk. So earlier when we were leaving breakfast, as we were leaving, the two waitresses said, thanks for coming and they had a big smile on their face. So I said to both of them, two of you have a great smile. Well, to me, I like practicing random acts of kindness because so much today we're cruel and unintentionally cruel, but we...”
2018-08-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #332: Coach George Raveling — A Legend on Sports, Business, and The Great Game of Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Make myself a better person than I was yesterday. And that's shame on me because I had 86,400 seconds of opportunities to do something, even if it's no more than a thank you, a random smile, a pat on the back. Think about this, Tim. There are a lot of people in this country who go through 24 hours and never have anyone say anything to him positive. You might be the only person that day who said something to that person that was positive. Or I know.”
2018-08-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #332: Coach George Raveling — A Legend on Sports, Business, and The Great Game of Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That they've been a great source of not only learning and reflection, but I can find information that I can utilize in speeches. And it's interesting also when you look back, I think people... 50 years ago placed a greater importance on writing skills and word usages. And it was an art form now and how people go about explaining themselves. But most of the books I read, there are very few of them that I don't come away and feel that I'm a better person. One of the things I like to ask myself at the close of every day is what did I do to make myself a better person than I was yesterday? What did I learn today? From a talk that I do, I say every day is composed of 86,400 seconds of opportunities. And how shameful is it for me at the close of my day to say that I didn't do anything today to”
2018-08-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #332: Coach George Raveling — A Legend on Sports, Business, and The Great Game of Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Is I would end up transferring these to journals. And I actually have book notes back to 1972 is when I started to keep them in three-ring binders. And what I would do is when I was done with a book, I would just give the book to my, at those days it was secretary, so I'd give it to my secretary, and she would type out everything that I had underlined in the book, and then she'd create a cover page for it. And so I have three-ring binders. I probably have 12 or 15 from Washington State, and I probably have, I only stayed at Iowa four years, but I'd say I probably have about eight from Iowa and probably maybe 15 or 20 from USC. So I actually have saved my notes over the years. And one thing that I...”
2018-08-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #332: Coach George Raveling — A Legend on Sports, Business, and The Great Game of Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“What I found out is in reading books now is when I go back on the second passage of the book or reading it, I find some pages that where I didn't have anything underlined. And so just my inquisitive self, I'll go back and read that page. And there'll be three or four things that I want to underline or I want to ponder on. And I can't understand, wow, how did I miss this? So the second reading for me is revealing because I always find something that I missed that maybe my brain just was functioning too fast or I was being distracted. And so I've learned that a second reading is vitally important. And so then the last thing I would do.”
2018-08-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #332: Coach George Raveling — A Legend on Sports, Business, and The Great Game of Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, what I do is it helps redirect my attention to what's important. If you saw a speech that I gave, for example, I was a graduation speaker a couple years ago at Vilnova. And if you saw the speech, it's just a maze of colors. My brain is trained that the colors will redirect my attention. And so if it's all pink, then in many ways it really wasn't any sense to underline it. I mean, to color it. So I tend to go back once I read this book, I go back now, and I'll reread the book and go with the underlining again. And sometimes if it's really powerful enough, I just do it right then.”
2018-08-09 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #332: Coach George Raveling — A Legend on Sports, Business, and The Great Game of Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT