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Rio Ferdinand

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first: 2021-04-12
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“He was a wicked player, beautiful touch, sexy looking footballer, wicked. And before Big Champions League game, I think it was Barcelona. He just weren't working hard enough for the team. I had the ball on this side of the pitch, and I needed him to come over and help. He's just walking, and I ended up just kicking the ball off and going crazy.”
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“And I'll give you an example like. And again, I didn't say it as eloquently as that when I was playing football, but. Burbatoff came to May United.”
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“It's so important, I think. And I think every industry is like that. Football's where I'm from, and that's what it's like there. But I see since I've retired, that's replicated in other industries 100%.”
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“You didn't feel him that aura. He could be on his phone making bets, which you normally would be. Interested in training, but his presence alone was enough. And it just made when you look back and you think leadership is just key. And we're talking about investing earlier. Investing in the leader”
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“When you've set the foundations and you've created that culture, you don't, as a leader, have to be there every day in that sense. He was at a training ground every day. How many times do you think he came into our change room? You wouldn't fill one hand. No, never came in a change room. The training ground, we're every day because he knew that the culture was set and then he had lieutenants like me, Giggsy, Gary Neville, etc., who were then filtering that down. Any of the younger players on new Didn't know the culture yet, and then those players became the culture leaders. And so it was crazy, man. And even, for instance, if he wasn't at a training ground watching training, training intensity might drop that little... 2%, but you'd notice it because the manager's not there.”
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“Good habits Everyday good habits whether it's punctuality Again, work ethic, attention to detail, intensity when you're training on a training pitch, respecting each other, like all those things just, they come together and it creates a culture. At the club, and I'd been at West Ham, I'd been at Leeds, two very good clubs, great clubs. But they didn't have that culture. Which meant there was ability to win. But it starts from somewhere. So Alex Ferguson already won at Aberdeen. So he knew how to create that culture. He went to Man United, didn't have that winning mentality at the time when he went there. He created that. And it all stems. I always think great leadership is definitely what gives you an opportunity to be successful. And I noticed that throughout my career.”
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“Your kids, man, what they're doing, how hard they work, created these wicked businesses, but you gave them an opportunity. But what they've done with that, you can't be disappointed. He said, nah, man. For me to sit here and just see them, what they're doing, what they're doing. That's where I want to be, man. And it doesn't matter how much money you make or how big of a business. My success as a parent is that my kids get up every day. They got a work ethic and they do stuff to the best of their ability. If they do that, whatever job they're in. Do that I think you've laid the foundations for a good life for your kids.”
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“Umar is that exactly so umar's all three of them by the way like that all three of the come on your kids do you know what i mean they're exactly the same in terms of They've gone out to, they never had to work. Their parents would spoil them. And they've all knuckled down and said, yeah, we've been given an opportunity. Now you've got to go and execute, and they've gone and executed beyond belief. And I see Mahmoud of. Of Boohoo, who's the father of Omar and the guys? And that's what I say to him, man. You must be so happy, ma'am. What do you mean”
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“That is the guy who comes up with the answers for that, is the main man. So difficult. I was doing a podcast yesterday with. Eddie Hun. And he's like the generation my children are. So his father was well off, successful, and he was where my children are now. And he was saying one of the things that he was scared of being that rich kid. I mean, and so he'd done everything not to go out and work and to go and have a hard, hard working mentality and to be a success himself. Our friend,”
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“And they're doing them properly. That's why I say do your chores right because them habits there will lead on to other things in your life going forward, your football stuff. You won't take shortcuts. You're taking shortcuts there for your work. Shortcuts with your football, shortcuts making your bed, shortcuts with your schoolwork, homework, etc. It will all be the same. I need high standards everywhere.”
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“Yeah, yeah, and it's like you're looking down on people Almost like, and I listen, I don't agree with none of that. I've got to be honest, work hard, man. That should be just an absolute normal Ask of any person, and I always keep talking about my kids because they're a big part of my life, but that's all I talk about my kids. When they talk to me about school, football, washing up your children, that's what's been one of the great things that we've had a lot of negativity about the COVID situation in this country, staying at home, etc., homeschooling. One of the great things to come out of it for us as a family, these kids know their chores.”
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“It's probably why you sat in it. Yeah, they don't grow. And all those people who will stay there, some of them are like, oh, I just want to stay here, but a lot of them, they're scared to open up because of that vulnerability and them feeling silly if they're told, oh, you got it wrong. But it's not. I'm not like that. Everyone's on this earth for different reasons, and some people are happy just to be stay in a situation they're in and be very happy just going along that road and no spikes or drops. I'd rather have a drop at some point, but to get, I know that spikes are going to come somewhere through. Being able to do the things we're talking about”
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“Exactly. So, you want good habits, but you've got to understand what it is before you can create that habit. So that's what I try and always ask questions if I'm wrong, if I feel I'm not sure or certain, I'll definitely ask questions.”
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“Success. But it is, I don't know. An important thing for me as well, which again, I'm never scared to do, is to ask questions. Like, it's the same thing with football. You don't understand something what my manager is telling you or coach is telling you. Don't go away and have a bit of a blurred idea of what it is. Because then you're going to be judged on that not understanding and not executing.”
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“Yeah, you got to. No one gets to where they're going to get on the cleanest without a bump on the road. Don't get you have to have bumps in the road to be able to get there to experience them vulnerable moments so that when you are there, you know what it's like. And then you can drag people up with you. And you become stronger with more people. That's how I always think. There's a lot of people who want to get to the top and stay on the top of the mountain on their own and don't want to bring no one up. I don't agree with that. I'm always like, I want to share and help. Because that is the foundations of me being stronger for a longer period of time and can sustain.”
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“I might not understand everything, and when the conversation's finished and a laptop's closed, I'll be somewhere looking and finding out I didn't understand that I'll call that person back or I'll call someone on that call just to clear up a few things I haven't quite grasped. But there will be something within that conversation where I feel like I can add some sort of value.”
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“Yeah, but I always find something I can cling on to that I just try and find something within a conversation that would allow me to gain confidence through talking in that conversation. Do you know what I mean?”
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“And so we do sometimes have an easy, there's not as big a barrier to entry for certain things for us, but then you still got to go in and produce. You still got to go and prove yourself. And so even things that I've gone on the board now for a company, the gym group, as a NED. Oh, really? Yeah. Which is... Out of my comfort zone because I like fitness, but I don't understand the business behind that and what goes into having 125, 180 sites and managing that and there's a property arm and there's the commercial arm and there's a marketing and that all coming together under one umbrella and having to manage all that and to be a part of those conversations like that stuff is what I'm super interested in that type of stuff in the workings behind the mechanics of all these type of businesses in different industries. So that's like”
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“I just laugh. I'd laugh. It would make me laugh because I don't see barriers. Unfortunate as well, by the way. I understand that I've got to a position where there are a lot of boundaries that have been kind of put down. Me to skip over because of my career as a footballer. And you're getting that now as someone who's been really successful in your field. So you see that colour and age, et cetera, get put to the side because we acknowledge what you've done”
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“That's not enough for me. Like, my next phase of my life, I don't want to remember when someone sees me, my success in my next phase of life is when someone sees me and says, that's Rio. Do you know Rio? And they mention something that I'm doing or I've done around that time. Not that's Rio as a footballer. If people were in 10, 20 years, say that's Rio, I paid for May United. I ain't really kicked on. I haven't really done what I'm here to do to setting out to do, which is to evolve and become something different and make something of myself somewhere else. And I think my family were a lot like that. Whether my mum and dad were successful or not. We're always to ask, make something of yourself, be something. Nothing, there's no barriers to that. So that's the way I've always kind of thought about things.”
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“Not really. I think that question you don't really answer it in the end. I think you're always evolving. It's like, for instance, something you said earlier that pricked my ears about. You said Marla, it's the same thing just in a different way, probably a more eloquent way about not wanting to be pigeonholed. And my aim in my life now, like people think you've played football and you've done all these amazing things as a footballer. I've done really well at football. I acknowledge that.”
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“Don't be pigeonholed. I mean, you go and find out and explore and find out what you are, and you've got to have experiences to get to that point. It's not going to happen overnight. It's not going to happen in your childhood, not in your teens. When you get to become an adult, you'll start working your way and finding out who you are and what you are. And I've always thought that. So going to a ballet school, I could have been ridiculed my mates. I was one of the boys on the estate. But at the same time, I was confident enough that, oh, real, you're going ballet. Laughing. I don't care. What? And I know I'm good at football. I know I'm good at, I'm the fastest runner on the estate in my age group. I can keep up with older boys. What? Because I go ballet, there's nothing wrong. Who are you?”
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“It's just the different ends of the spectrum. You just wouldn't associate one with the other. And again, we were speaking just as you mentioned before, before he came on here. One of the things that my mum used to say to me is that don't let anyone tell you what you are.”
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“I might not be good at it. I might foul. Who cares? It's like with the boxing. Wanted to go trying to be from a professional footballer. Let's try and be a professional boxer. Crazy. Yeah. But what's the worst that can really happen? I lose the fight. My life goes on. That's it. But some people, they can't allow their ego to be squashed maybe at a certain point or their pride. And they're sitting there as this macho person, they can't feel vulnerable at any point. And when you try things, there is an element of vulnerability that comes with that because you're opening yourself up. You're leaving yourself a bit wide open for criticism, for failure. But I'm not scared of failure. I never have been. I'm not fearful. And that's what I try and put in my kids. If you fail, get up and go again.”
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“I've done gymnastics at the London Olympic Games, and they obviously, I didn't notice there were scouts there from ballet schools or someone was watching or a family friend was there and they said, ah, he looks like you might have, I don't know what I had or my posture or something like that looks good to be a ballet dancer. So I went there and I wasn't really one for saying no to stuff. I was like, I'll try it. I'll try anything. And they said, and one of the reasons I was going to be able to get off my estate, meet new people, new girls maybe as a young kid. And then it was in a different part of London traveling. So I'd done it.”
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“Four years I was off three or four years I was at the Central School of Ballet, so I'd got good relationships there, told them I couldn't do it and then went full throttle and full steam ahead with football and it was just The best decision I obviously made in my life in that sense. But I knew that that was my passion. I liked the other stuff. I enjoyed doing the other stuff. There were good distractions from what was probably going on in my estate as well. Probably my parents felt like that as well. But football was something that I got up every day from when I knocked on my friend's house, borrow, go and play football, etc.”
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“thirteen or fourteen years old and obviously my dad was having to come from east like obviously we live in south london he'd drive to east north east london drive home pick me up from school take me to west london to play football back to dropping friends off on the way it's hard graft and in the end i got to 13 14 years old and my dad said listen you're doing a lot at the moment you're going to burn yourself out so let's just pick something that you really enjoy and you want to do and just go for it and i was like It was like an easy conversation. It was difficult enough. I had to let down, I thought, and disappoint Central School of Ballet, where I was doing it, which is a real top school in London, in Farringdon. And I made good friends there. And the other stuff I wasn't too that concerned about it.”
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“I just was interested in it all. I liked it. I enjoyed it. And my mum and dad were really, my mom especially were really like, if you like something, go and do it. Try it. They were always like that. Go and do it. What's the worst it can do is you don't enjoy it. I used to do karate sometimes as well. And I got to a point, I think I was”
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“Yeah, it's a good question because when I was younger, I was into everything. I was running around on the estate. I was doing gymnastics a couple of times a week. I was doing ballet. I was obviously playing football. I was doing athletics. I was doing a drama class.”
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