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George Raveling

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“So what I do is if I get bored when I'm reading, I'll just switch to another book until I get one that really captures my attention. So when I get on the plane, I'm going to usually start off, I'll read Wall Street and New York Times and the local paper. And then by the second half, I'll go to my books. So like I said, I just have all these crazy things. So for example, I've trained myself to understand that the blank pages, I've made all the blank pages in a book valuable because I take every blank page and I write notes in there. I don't have to switch to my notebook real. It's more handy. So as you can see on a lot of the blank pages, you're writing on every blank page. Yeah, I write. And as I... I skip around and”
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 other thing I have to do is try to figure out other ways to get book reading in. So if I hop on a flight from LA to Austin, I put four books in my book bag that I carry on the plane. And I read four books at a time. I have a lot of crazy things I do.”
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“For me, I have to segment the information. So I have this little formula. Information. Equals knowledge, knowledge equals wisdom, wisdom equals growth, growth allows me to share. So I take the information and I segment it into magazine reading, blogs, articles, and books. And what I found out is that I was devoting an inordinate amount of time to blogs, articles, and magazines and newspapers. And it was compromising my book reading. So what I had to do was to start to plan out my week. And so I'll have a day where I say blogs, magazines, and newspapers, and then I'll have a day where it's book day. So that day, I'm not doing anything but reading my books.”
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
“Yes, and I make comments like on this paragraph where I wrote unbelievable, this was a quote that I wanted to put in my journal on quotes. And so this was a person that was mentioned that I want to Google. A lot of times what will happen, Tim, I go back and I Google a person and then immediately I go to see if they have a Twitter account. And if they do, then I sign up for their Twitter account. And so to me, the handheld device has become my own personal library and my source of information. But where I've discovered a growing problem is there's this huge proliferation of information today. We're overwhelmed with information. And so what I find out is that”
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“What do you reserve that for? So the ones which circle are, I'm always looking for new ways to explain things and to teach. So those are words that I'll go back and I'll transfer into one of my journals because I'm looking for new ways to explain things. Sometimes a person will be mentioned, and so I'll circle that. I'll write those down. So every day I take about a half an hour in Google. I Google people's names. I Google, as I said, with masterminds. And then I'll have where you see the markings on the side of a paragraph. That means when I go back that I want to reread that in its entirety and it's really important.”
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 dominant conversation is Merck is the future, the future. Get to the future first. What's the future going to look like? And so I started to realize, you know, you need to understand more about the future and what it is and what the potential are. So as I'm going through, go into the bookstore, I decide only books I'm going to buy are books that talk about the future. So I ended up buying about six books. And so I came across this as a good Lord help me discover this book and it's called Whiplash, How to Survive.”
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“And their values are a lot more sustainable. And what I mean by that, they have fixed values that they've grown up with from a child and they've never compromised. This is a great book. Once again, I spend a good bit of time trying to figure out which ones I thought you would like. The actual next one is I bought at the University of Penn Bookstore about five months ago. I never go to Philadelphia and don't go to the Pinned bookstore and they have an incredible collection of books. And so at that time I was thinking to myself, you know, you need to change the subjects matter a little bit.”
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
“America from a perspective that you would normally. And what you find out, even in these little towns around America, there's not a whole lot of difference. People, they have their anxiety, they have their joys, they have their visions. But one thing I noticed was that people in the smaller towns tend to lead a much simpler life.”
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 all he's going to do is go into small towns off of Blue Highways and take up residence there for a day, two, a week, and just talk to the local inhabitants and going to restaurants and learn other people's stories and their challenges and successes. And so the Blue Highway connotation, and I noticed because I taught map reading when I was in the Army, is on the map, the blue highways are secondary therapy. And the major highways that are drawn in red. And so he decided that I don't want to travel around America on the main highways of life because the real stories are off the blue highways. And it's just an incredible story of his journey. And it gives you a look at”
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
“Someone should pick up and read right now. I would say it's so applicable, even though it was written in 51 on is this the true believer by Eric Hoffer. I don't think you can get it in hardback now, but it's a marvelous book. Blue Highways was one that I read twice, and William Lee's Heat Moon was the professor in English at the University of Missouri. And he arrived at a point where he was totally bored at being the professor. And he makes a unique decision to abandon his career, sell everything he has. He has a credit card. He sells everything he has, and he decides that he's going to travel the blue highways of life and he's going to go all around America.”
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 you can read now. I'm glad you like school. I do too. I'm in the fourth grade. Your friend Alex. So it just, and this is, to me, is one of the true classics of all time. This is the true believer by Eric Hoffer. Eric Koffer was a longshoreman in San Francisco. He's self-educated. And this book is about fanatics and how the people become so engrossed in mass movements. A lot of the backdrop for his rationale has to do with Hitler's rise to power in Germany. And I just want to remember, I'm pretty sure the book came out in 1951, he wrote this. And so it's every bit as contemporary as, in fact, if there was one of these books that I would say that you should”
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“And then he subsequently goes back and gets his GED. And it's a fascinating story about that he never allowed his environment to imprison him. It took him a while to realize that he had the capabilities to still read. But what was more important was that he wanted to do it. And so he taught himself to read. He ended up going back to school. And one of the things in here was they have a couple of letters that young kids who read the book. And so here's a cute one that says, dear Mr. Dawson, I'm in second grade. I live in Wisconsin. I'm glad that your brain still works. Happy 10th anniversary. And then the one other one says, I'm happy.”
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 think my first goal was, as I said to you when I first entered the room, is that what I learned from the three wise men was they always came bearing gifts. And so I felt that I wanted to share something with you as you were of values, as you were sharing something with me of value and allow me to be on your program. So I thought long and hard about the types of books that a Princeton graduate would find interesting. And so I went back through and the first one is life is so good is about a black young man who was a slave and that 98 years old, he decides that he's going to teach himself to write.”
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
“No, but that's the one thing I found with your two books is I take them on as a personal challenge. I said if he spent this much time with this many pages, I am not going to allow the length of the book to intimidate me. I'm going to see this as an opportunity. And so what I did with Tools of the Titan. I call that my China book. So it's 13 hours of Shanghai or 13 hours to Hannah.”
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 the hotel, and I start reading the book, and before I know it's 2 a.m. in the morning, and the guy's got me hooked already. And so I start telling people, oh, you got to get this book, and no one's ever heard of this guy, although in Canada, I understand he's quite controversial. He's a professor at the University of Toronto. So then about three weeks go by, and all of a sudden there's an explosion, it's now number two on the best sellers and so forth. So I would say I probably have given away somewhere between 20 and 30 copies of that to friends. I'll get a note from someone every now and then saying, hey, tell me a good book to read. That's the one I recommend the most. I give Tim's, I mean, Ryan's books away a lot. One thing that I like about Ryan's...”
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“Well, you know, being eighty years old, it's a long span of reading. The books that I've given out the most rarely do I go to meet anyone and I can't tell you the last time I met someone and I didn't bring them a book. It's just become a habit now to bring, give them a book. In most cases, I give them two or three books. But the books that I've given away the most lately are Ryan's two books, Obstacles and Ego is the enemy, and 12 rules for life by Jordan Peterson. This was one where I happened to go into Barnes& Noble the day the book arrives, and I go through it and it passes my test. And so I get back to the...”
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“How am I going to fit in? And every night I went to bed with the worst headaches that I ever had because I couldn't process all this stuff. By the second day I've already filled up a notebook of notes. And it was one of those life-changing experiences. So you helped me grow as a person just by what you mentioned in Tools of the Titan.”
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“And I find out, wow. So I'm thinking to myself, oh my God, I never knew about this. So how do I become part of it? So I sent some information to Ryan Holliday about this mastermind. So he gets back to me and he says, oh, I'm surprised you didn't know about that. He says, you want to go. I'll get you in. So the next thing I know, I get this invite to go to masterminds in Carmel Valley. And my 80 years on earth, that was the greatest collection of intellects that I've ever been around in my life. I was so intimidated. And what was marvelous, that was when I knew I was on the right path. Because I'm 80 years old. The next oldest person there is probably 49. They're all young, energetic people. And I readily admit I was so intimidated. I didn't think I was thinking to myself, God.”
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“It was a miracle. So in the book, Tim, I read that Einstein was very active in what they would capture in those times as the Negro movement. And it says that he wrote a book on Einstein in the Negro movement. Well, I had never heard of this. So I immediately stopped reading and go Google Einstein on the Negro problem. And lo and behold, it comes up. So I chased the book down. So what I find a lot of times in reading books in your book, Tools of the Titan, I'm reading, and I see this, you mentioned in there about masterminds. And I had never heard of masterminds. So I circle it and I write Google behind it. So I go back and I go online and I...”
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“And others. So I go to the bookstore and I buy to Benjamin Franklin book and I am blown away and a little sad because I feel like, God, damn, I went through all this education. No one ever taught me any of this stuff other than the kite. And so before that, I think if you'd have asked me who was the most important American of all time, I think I would have probably tended to say Abraham Lincoln. But after I read Isaac's book on Benjamin Franklin, the lottery system, the banking school, streets, the guy, he did so many unbelievable things. And then from there, I went to Einstein. And anybody who can write a book on Einstein, that... Idiot like me can understand the physics and it was absolutely”
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“And then once I find this one chapter, I start to read some of it, and I can tell if this is going to be me or not. And at that point, I'll purchase the book. But I just don't go in and... So now here at 80 years old, two of my favorite authors are Ryan Holliday and Walter Isaacson. They've both taken me on interesting intellectual journeys. The first book I read by Walter Eisen was Steve Jobs. And I was so blown away I had underlined about three quarters of the book. I was quoting, writing down quotes. And as you notice, Steve Jobs book couldn't be anything you want it to be. It can be a thesis on leadership. It was just utterly fascinating. I loved Walter Isaacson's writing style. I went back. I said, damn, I like the way he writes. So I go back and I look to see what else he had written. And so then I see he's on a book on Benjamin Franklin. He's done a book on Einstein. And subsequently Kissinger.”
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
“Table. I'd say eight out of ten times I'm going to find a book that I had never heard of before. And so I picked the book up. I go to the back. I read about the author. Then I go to the front part and I read the promos down the side. And then the next thing I do is I go to the chapters and I'll find a chapter and I'll open it up and I'll see the writer's style. I look at the style. Is this someone that's a book filled with a lot of statistics or stories? Because I know what I'm looking for. The books that have had the most impact are the ones that make me change the way I think or act or behave. And those are the books that ultimately end up being the best for me. So I'll go through the book.”
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 let's say I'm going to envision this one. So our office is in El Segundo, which is outside of Los Angeles. And so I go to Barnes& Noble. There, one thing I found out, that because there's so many corporate offices within a two-mile radius that they tend to house really excellent business books. So I'll go in, and as soon as I go in, I look at the books that are on reduction sale to see if there's something there that might be a good buy. Then I go to the new releases, nonfiction. And by the way, I go to a bookstore four to five days out of the week. I'm constantly going in, and I just call it search and discovery. So I'll go to the new releases in a nonfiction, and I'll look through the books. There's usually 20 books on the table.”
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
“Reading books. First of all, I divide the book into messages. I don't spend any time now trying to read a whole book because there's probably in most books there's probably maybe eight to ten chapters that are really powerful and influential. And the others I skimmed through. So I never start a book from the front and go to the back. I just go, I'll open the index and I'll find what I believe is an interesting chapter and I start there. And that's actually how I purchase a book. When I'm in the bookstore, I have this routine that I go through. And if it passes, I buy the book. And if it doesn't, I don't buy the book.”
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 byproduct of you respecting me will be that you'll learn to like me. So I don't work at trying to get people to like me. So I've been on this mission for a reading for years and years and years. And it's become an obsession now with me. I don't go anywhere without a book and a notebook. So if I'm in line, if I go to the doctor's office, I take a book with me. If I'm in the, I have a new system now. If I go to a bookstore, if I'm in Barnes& Noble and the line has got eight or nine people, rather than stay there for 10 minutes waiting, I'll start reading the book right there in line and start underlining things. And so I have all these quirks that I've acquired over the years.”
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
“They can control who you are in your body. And so I decided that I was never going to allow myself to be in a position where someone could control my mind and control my body because of my lack of information and knowledge. And so I decided that I was going to try to read and learn as much as I possibly could on the continual basis because I believe that people will have a greater respect for you if they respect you intellectually. I've often felt in life if I had the choice between Tim Liking me or Tim respecting me, I'd far more hope that you respect me than like me.”
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, as I look back on it now, Tim, with a point of reference to so many times as we speak, it's always going to be my grandma. Well, my grandma told me one time when she'd be in the kitchen cooking, she'd tell me stories. And one time my grandma told me, she said, George, you know back in the days of slavery to plantation owners used to put their money in books and hide them up on them up on the bookshelves because the banking system wasn't as sophisticated as it is today. And so I said, well, Grandma, why did they do that? And she said, because they didn't have to worry about the slave stealing the money because the slaves would never take the books off the shelf because they couldn't read. And so from that I began to understand that as long as someone can control your mind,”
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“Make sure it's clear and so forth. So I met Alex Sevasier and during the time I was there, we just hit it off. And so I'm pretty sure he was taking me back to the airport and I asked him if he would be interested in doing a website for me. And he said yes. And so that's how it started and it's turned into a lifelong friendship. I think that was the start of me recognizing that I needed to be around more young people. And so I don't associate, and maybe it's bad to say this, but I don't hang out with many people my own age. Most of the people that I associate with are younger people because I think they're the future, they're smart, they're naive enough that they'll tell you the truth, and they're not afraid to tell you if they think you're wrong. And when I hang around people my own age, it tends to always revert back to the past.”
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 try to make sure that I surround myself with people who want to see me become better and can help me become better that I can learn from them and that I can contribute to their lives. And so most of the friendships I have in life, they all started by mistake. One of the young men that's here today that has taught me almost all I know about technology, I spoke at a clinic in Orlando, a friend of mine, Kevin Eastman, was running the clinic. And I said to him, I said, who's going to put my presentation up on the screen in that? You have an IT guy? And he said, yes. And so I said, well, introduce him to me because I want to put my presentation up. I want to walk to the back of the room.”
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 do for you. And your good friend Ryan Holliday and I had dinner last night and one of the very last things I said to him, I said, Ryan, is there anything I can be doing for you in the next 30 days? I've always had this theory that if you help enough people get what they want, you'll always get what you want. So I've never tried to enter a relationship based on selfish motives that if I know this person, I'm going to get these benefits. I try to find out what do we have in common as people, what is it that we can share, how can I help this person, no matter how famous they are, how successful they are, everyone has certain needs, even if they're just psychological needs, or we all need truth-tellers in our life. And building relationships.”
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“We were able to build an authentic and sustainable relationship. And I've always looked upon relationships as a privilege. At the end of the day, at the core of all relationships, in my mind, is trust and respect. And so both of those have to be earned. And so over the years, I've met people unintentionally we've stayed in touch and there's been this level of trust that's allowed the relationship to endure, but it's something that's a lot like marriage. You have to work at it. You have to understand that there's a balance in relationships. And with me, the number one thing that I ask myself continually is what can”
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
“Books and friends and my library at home I have well over 2500 books and probably I have another of six or seven hundred that are that are in storage because it just ran out of space but I just continue to buy books to read them. I have as you probably researched I have an unusual way of going about reading books and friends I don't have a strategy or anything for friends that most times people when I meet them are not who they end up being whether it was Phil Knight Bob Knight John Thompson Sonny I could tell you tons of people when I met him they were not who they ended up being but for some reason”
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“I easily have postcards. I probably have over 300 of the postcards, and I probably have about 500 of the figurines. I was just thinking because I have the original Angela flower part packs and that I once I got going it was amazing the things that I was able to collect and so I had so many of them that I couldn't put them all on display so I have probably three quarters of them are boxed up in storage and then the others are around my house”
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“Well, first of all, no one's ever asked me that question, but I probably have over $100,000 worth of black collectibles for about eight or nine years that it became an obsession with me. And so I would go to antique shows and go to stores and hunt down all black memobilia. I have things that date back before I actually have a first edition of Uncle Tom's cabin. So I started to collect books, figurines, and postcards. Postcards, I start out with figurines. A friend of mine told me about an antique store that was closing, and the gentleman had a huge collection of black collectibles. And so it was in...”
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
“Someone would pay for your education, and all you had to do was play basketball. And she just, it took her over a year before she fully was able to even trust that this was, when I finally got on campus at Villanoga and went to first class, then she kind of started to be a lot more trustful of the process. I look back on it now and it just shows you the depth of a stain of racism and how things are implanted in your mind that you just can't, they're incomprehensible.”
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“I call my grandma and I tell her what's going on and then I'm going to get this scholarship. And so I tell her, well, how does it work? I said, so if I agree to play on the basketball team for the four years, they'll pay for my education. So all of a sudden there's utter silence on the phone. And I said, Grandma, are you still there? And she said, yes. I said, why are you so quiet? She says, oh, I just feel like a failure. I said, what do you mean? And she said, I thought I raised you better than that. And I said, well, Grandma, what did I do wrong? And she said, stupid. Don't white people going to give you a free education to play basketball. How can you go, how could you be so stupid to believe? She could not comprehend that because of the racial situation that some”
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 I was prepared, and so the Sunday before we left the drive back up to Hoban Heights, the coach Al Severance offered me a scholarship and they wanted a decision why we were there. So basically my high school coach made the decision. He thought that that's where I should go. And little did I know that basketball was going to be this transformative force in my life that was going to take me someplace I never thought that I could go. Tim, never in my life, and I don't mean this in a mean spirited way, did anyone in my family ever say to me, George, when you grow up, I want you to go to college. There was no reason for them to think that at that time it wasn't even a dream or thought because nobody had received. That type of education and go back to my grandma.”
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“Handwritten letters four and five pages on what it was going to mean to go to Gettysburg and so forth. He'd drive up to games. He was so persistent. But at the end of the day, the reality was this, as far as the nuns and the priests were concerned, it would have been heresy to go to a state institution. I was going to a Catholic school. Then it basically came down to St. Joseph in Villanova, and I went down for the visit at Vilanova. And while I was there, they gave me admissions exam. He didn't have PSAT and ACT'd in. And so I took the admissions exam the first day I was there. And once again, amazing insight by Sister Dolores. When she found out I was going to get scholarships offers, she started to make me stay after school every day and work on the entrance exams.”
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“And so he said that I like the way you play. We'd like to offer you a scholarship. And I said, yes, sir. And every time he'd say something, I'd just say, yes, sir, because I didn't know what else to say. And so the school bus ride back to the school, my coach says, who is that man you're talking to outside the locker room? And I said, he was a coach, and I handed him to the card. And so my coach says, well, what did he tell you? And I said, he said that he wanted to offer me a scholarship. And so I said, coach, what's a scholarship? Because I had no idea that they would pay for your education in return you participated in basketball. So then over the course of the remainder season, I had an offer from Michigan State, Villanova, and Gettysburg and a bunch of other schools. But I add Gettysburg because their coach did the best job of recruiting me. He'd write me.”
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 at this point, let's just step back real quick. So at the end of my junior year, I'm waiting for it to take the Greyhound bus back to D.C. I get a week vacation back in D.C. So I'm sitting there waiting for the bus to come by. And Tim, I can remember it was like yesterday. I thought to myself, God, if I can just graduate and become a pilot in the Air Force, I'll have it made. I had no idea anything about basketball was going to take me and get me a scholarship. So the following year, I end up the second leading scorer in the state. And so we're playing at St. Rose in Carbondale. And after the game, when I come out of locker room, a gentleman comes up to me and he says, hi, my name's Jack Ramsey. I'm the co-chair at St. Joe College, and he hands me a card. Of course, Jack Ramsey is in a basketball hall of fame great coach.”
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“And so I actually somewhere in one of my high school scrapbooks, I have a picture of me in a ring. In those days, you wore the headgear and you had the big gloves. And so I fought in my weight class, which at that time, I wish I was under 200 pounds now. So I actually won my senior. I won a Golden Glove event. And then I played baseball. I played first base and pitched. And in football, I played in all except the last year, and then we didn't have a good quarterback.”
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“School that there were four sports boxing, baseball, basketball, and football. And so one of the things that you learned if you wanted to get off campus some, you participate in sports. And so I actually participated in every one. And the one that probably gets zero attention because a lot of people just don't know was boxing. I actually box golden glove for two years. I know you were Chinese footboxing, so you can probably identify with that.”
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“Would come up, or the next day in class, she would say, well, you know, in the third quarter, you really were loafing out there. I was embarrassed. But she always found a way to, I'd write a paper and she'd read it and she'd say, this is really good, but this is not your best stuff. You can do better. So she always kind of created this contest of having me compete compete against myself. It was never competing against the other students. It was always me competing against myself. So she taught me the power of positive attitude. And she would never allow me to think negatively. And then the other person was my high school coach. He taught me so many lessons about life at our”
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“Yeah, well, sister, there was a nun who took a liking to me named Sister Delore. She lived to be 87, but for some reason she saw something in me that I never saw in myself. And she would always say positive things to me. At the time, I didn't realize the value of them, but she'd always say to me, George, you can be special. Or if I wasn't working up to my potential in whatever area it was, she would say, now that's not being special, and you're on earth to be special. And to me, I never had anybody look at me and make me think I could be anything other than average. But she constantly preached that to me, and she would watch the basketball games and after she.”
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“But if someone asked me a question and I didn't say yes, ma'am and no, ma'am, when I got home, my grandma would say, I heard Ms. Jenkins ask you that, and you just said yeah. And she said, bend over, and she whip me. And so, and my greatest quote for my grandma was, she told me one time, she said, there's more horses' asses in the world than there are horses. No, that's been my favorite grammar quote.”
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“Do that. So invariably, what will happen on the flight is either during the flight or at the end the stewardess will say to me, can I ask you a question and I'll say yes, I know it's coming. And they'll say, are you from the military? And I say, well, I was in the military, but no, I'm not in the military now. And they say, well, are you from the south? And I said, no. And so I said, why do you ask? And they say, well, because you're so polite. No one says yes, ma'am, and no. And I have a lot of people now who find it uncomfortable if I say yes, sir, at 80 years old and they're younger than me, but it's just the way I was born. My grandma was huge on manners. And if we went somewhere and there were adults there in those days, if you were a child, kids were to be seen and not heard. And so if there was a conversation going on with adults, you just listen.”
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“When you walk down the street, you always walk on the outside, a woman always walks on the inside. When you get to the corner, you make sure you check the traffic in both ways before, and then you walk more as a guard. If a woman's getting in the car, you always open the door for them first. If you sit down at the table for the meal, you hold the chair and help them. And so long before feminists movement was even thought of, my grandmother was teaching us social graces. Yes, sir, no, sir. I go on a flight now, and it's just part of my DNA when people say, Stewart says something, I say, yes, ma'am, no, no, ma'am. Yes, sir. No, sir. And I'm 80 years old.”
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“It was just a stroke of a miracle that my grandma was able to get me into this situation. And my grandma never graduated from high school. In fact, no one in my family, my mom and dad finished high school, but she knew that there had to be a better way for me. And she did everything that she could to help me grow as a person. I remember one time Tim, my grandma took myself and my brother out and she said, we're going to go outside. I want to teach you some manners and lessons. And so my grandma takes my brother and I out on the street and she says, and I'm going to start to teach you how to treat women. Women are to be respected. And so she says,”
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“Over the course of the time I was there, I did everything from bale, hay to pick apples to clean chicken coops to work in the kitchen, the scrub the floors in the chapel to make beds. You had to do a chore to help offset your presence there. And so the classes were very strict and rigorous. The classes were small, so we got a lot of individual attention.”
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“And so my grandma worked for this white family in Georgetown, and so she was sharing with the lady of the house this dilemma. And so she was saying, I don't know what I'm going to do, but I have to do something for him. And so the lady said her daughter was a head of Catholic charities in D.C. And she would mention it to her. Maybe her daughter could do something. Lo and behold, the daughter decides that what she's going to help. And so she found a school, a boarding school for me, a Catholic boarding school in Paris.”
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