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Tim Grover

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“Every mistake I've made I've reconciled. I've owned up to it Whether they accept it or not. People have asked me to apologize for things I shouldn't have apologized for. If people had to make a mistake, I would say that would be one of a few times I apologize for things I should have not apologized for.”
2022-05-16 · The Diary of a CEO · The Man Who Coached Michael Jordan AND Kobe Bryant To WIN!: Tim Grover · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The one event you don't show up for. And I guaranteed every individual who's one at multiple things, who's been successful at many things over and over again, at some point. In your career, some point in your life you forgot a very important date, you miss an event, you just did, but nobody wants to talk about it. Because people are going to judge you on that one thing.”
2022-05-16 · The Diary of a CEO · The Man Who Coached Michael Jordan AND Kobe Bryant To WIN!: Tim Grover · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In order for the generation. Move on And the only way that bill gets paid off is you got to be willing to make the hardest decisions. Other side of that story is I would often fly. My family was in Chicago. I was doing work. On the West Coast So when she had a school play, She had a volleyball game. I would fly. From the West Coast, Land in Chicago watch her performance for forty five minutes to an hour, and get on a plane that same night and be back for my client the next day. And there was a lot of times where I didn't even get a chance to speak to her. She just knew I was in the audience because it was the only flight to get back. Those are the parts nobody remembers. Everybody remembers.”
2022-05-16 · The Diary of a CEO · The Man Who Coached Michael Jordan AND Kobe Bryant To WIN!: Tim Grover · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, very important. And I just never knew when the right time was. And then one day I just said, This is the day. This is the day. She goes, You taught me how to make the toughest decisions in life. Not only taught me, you showed me. Told me how to be independent. When to be dependent, when to be independent. So sometimes when you think you're making the wrong decision or you have to making the toughest decision because you're thinking about somebody else and the consequences. If you think The price of winning is too high Wait till you get the bill from regret. And that bill from regret is generational. There's a lot of people listening to this that that bill has been passed on. From generation to generation, and you are holding that bill right now and somebody. One of your generations has to pay that bill off.”
2022-05-16 · The Diary of a CEO · The Man Who Coached Michael Jordan AND Kobe Bryant To WIN!: Tim Grover · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I said, sweetheart, this is how I take care of the family. This is how I provide for you. This is how I take care of mom. This is how I put a roof over the head. This is how I put food on the table. She goes, Daddy, if I eat less, will you stay on more? I was packing for a trip. Now If this Fairy tale I had to unpack my bag, I'd have grabbed her hand, we'd have gone out for ice cream. Kept packing. Now, I'm not telling anybody out there that's a decision they should make. If thou was my decision. and then many years later I sat down my daughter, and I said, Hey, I want to talk to you. And I want to discuss with her why dad is the way he is. And before I could even start, she goes, Dad, I understand. Goes, I understand I could see what you provided for mom and I. See the sacrifices you made for us”
2022-05-16 · The Diary of a CEO · The Man Who Coached Michael Jordan AND Kobe Bryant To WIN!: Tim Grover · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“From a personal standpoint, I will say this, winning will cost you everything, but will reward you with so much more. It's going to cost you everything. And every decision I've made. Knew what the consequences was. I knew what the cost was going to be. It may have not been at that particular moment, but I knew down the line. If I go do this decision, if I go work with this individual or I decide to do this now somewhere down the line, this is what it's going to cost. This is what it's going to cost me. I tell the story in the book where My daughter came up to me when I was when she was like Five years old. Says, Daddy, why do you travel so much?”
2022-05-16 · The Diary of a CEO · The Man Who Coached Michael Jordan AND Kobe Bryant To WIN!: Tim Grover · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You can't unsee it. You just can't. You can't. You know, people always said, you know, you can't forget what you've seen. You can't unlearn what you've learned. You can't. You can't unlearn it. You can learn from it and learn other things on top of it, but you're never going to unlearn those things. You're never going to be able to unsee the things that you've seen. And that's when people just don't understand. They can't. They can't see and understand your level of craziness. They can't see your level of obsession. And then once those things no longer matter for you. Then you know it's time to move on to another endeavor, which you've already have in your previous thing.”
2022-05-16 · The Diary of a CEO · The Man Who Coached Michael Jordan AND Kobe Bryant To WIN!: Tim Grover · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We're sitting in a completely different location of where this podcast was originally supposed to be done in. Showing up, and you were congratulating yourself for hey, showing up is half the battle. You'd have been like, all we showed up here, we won. He's like, all right, no, we actually showed up. We got thrown out. Now we got to go show up somewhere else and make this thing all work again. People will come back and say, Oh, you know what? You showed up. Don't worry about it. You won that battle today. No.”
2022-05-16 · The Diary of a CEO · The Man Who Coached Michael Jordan AND Kobe Bryant To WIN!: Tim Grover · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Showing up is none of the battle. People want accolades and rewards for doing things that they're supposed to do. People want to get acknowledged for things that you're supposed to show up. You guys are supposed to practice. You're supposed to get results People have a hard time understanding now the difference between feedback and criticism. It's exactly the same thing. It's just how you hear it. In order to get anything in life and forget anywhere, you must show up. If you think showing up is winning, You've already lost the battle. You've already lost a battle. People want to get a medal for doing the easy things. People show up every single day. People show up every single day and are dealing with circumstances that are beyond your imagination. They still show up I love to give examples to individuals that just happened.”
2022-05-16 · The Diary of a CEO · The Man Who Coached Michael Jordan AND Kobe Bryant To WIN!: Tim Grover · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Winning doesn't make you heartless. It teaches you to use your heart less. Four years ago Are using your heart Now you'd use your heart. You still have a heart, but you'd use it less.”
2022-05-16 · The Diary of a CEO · The Man Who Coached Michael Jordan AND Kobe Bryant To WIN!: Tim Grover · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Definitely keep those individuals, definitely keep those individuals around. I just. It's too easy too many times we let people off the hook. I can't let an individual off the hook because it's too easy. Think about the time that you let somebody off the hook. How'd it turn off”
2022-05-16 · The Diary of a CEO · The Man Who Coached Michael Jordan AND Kobe Bryant To WIN!: Tim Grover · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The thorns were more for trust. Can I keep poking you? How many times can I keep poking you and see how you're going to come back? Are you going to come back? What's your adversity tolerance? Because there's going to be certain situations that can I trust you? Can I trust you in that situation? And if you look throughout his career, there's very few people when the game was on the line that he would trust the pass the ball to and say, hey, this is what's going to happen. Very, very few. And all those individuals. That he did that with at some point. In their career stood up to him and challenged him.”
2022-05-16 · The Diary of a CEO · The Man Who Coached Michael Jordan AND Kobe Bryant To WIN!: Tim Grover · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And he knew when not to say certain things and have another individual talk to that person. But when he spoke, everybody, everybody listens. If you watch practices, everybody would come into the practice and they'd be laughing and kind of joking and having a good time and so forth. And as soon as that whistle was blown. Silence. And Michael always said, I practice so hard, and we all need to practice so hard so the games become easier.”
2022-05-16 · The Diary of a CEO · The Man Who Coached Michael Jordan AND Kobe Bryant To WIN!: Tim Grover · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So when Michael was constantly pushing his players, getting them to everybody knew he was not coming down to their level. He didn't expect everybody to come up to his level, but he knew there was another level for each individual. And he just wanted you to perform at the highest level. And he wanted you to have a taste of winning, not just once, but numerous times over and over again. And he had to be genuine to who he was. One of the things that I talk about in my other book, Relentless, one of the 13, I said, you know exactly who you are. He knew exactly who he was. He knew who he can communicate with. And say certain things.”
2022-05-16 · The Diary of a CEO · The Man Who Coached Michael Jordan AND Kobe Bryant To WIN!: Tim Grover · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It worked for him, and it was the only way he knew how. And it's a lot of people may consider things toxic when they initially start out, but then when you see the end result or when your career is over with or when you're with a different organization, you look at it and say, you know what, I really miss that. I give an example of flowers when you gift roses or you gifted roses or any types of flowers. Cut the thorns off Because the thorns are prickly and so forth. Well, when you cut the thorns off a rose, you decrease its lifespan. So a lot of individuals that have been thorns in your life. Have actually allowed you to propel. Places that you would never be able to propel before, and you don't miss it until those thorn that thorn is no longer there.”
2022-05-16 · The Diary of a CEO · The Man Who Coached Michael Jordan AND Kobe Bryant To WIN!: Tim Grover · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So as individuals, once they've reached that pinnacle They get their arms out and they start looking down. And say, I finally reached the top of this mountaintop Those are all the right things to do. Don't Because the air is so much thinner up on the top than it is on the climb to the top. And if you exhale, The next breath you have to catch. Not have the same effect, you'll have to catch multiple brats over and over and over again. That's why you see some of these individuals that are Retire from a sport. They come back or you see a CEO of a company leave a company, take a year off, and now they become a CEO of another company. They can exhale”
2022-05-16 · The Diary of a CEO · The Man Who Coached Michael Jordan AND Kobe Bryant To WIN!: Tim Grover · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I give you great example When people perform at the highest level in business, sometimes a boss or the person above them CO, whatever is allowed, you know what? Man, their numbers are so good. We're going to let them. We're not going to hold them accountable for this, this, and this, you know, they're still performing, they may not be performing at the highest level, but they're still performing at a top level. So now you have that little crack. And that little crack gets a little bigger and a little bigger and a little bigger. Michael, in the last dance said something, he goes, I never asked any of my teammates to do anything that I didn't do. You talk about the greatest ever play the game. He didn't have to have anybody else hold him accountable. He was I'm not going to ask you to do anything. I'm not going to do myself.”
2022-05-16 · The Diary of a CEO · The Man Who Coached Michael Jordan AND Kobe Bryant To WIN!: Tim Grover · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But that was the end of the conversation. I said, MJ, you hired me to do a job at the highest level. I said, you cannot do a job at the highest level without accountability. I said, once the accountability Is broken between us. And it's time for you to find another individual. So he held me accountable, I held him accountable. And when somebody says you better keep up as a person staring Because now you don't pay attention to the details as much because you feel like I've achieved it. I've gotten there. It's a lot easier. Staying on the top is not the same thing as reaching the top. Many individuals can reach the top, but very few individuals stay at the top because the accountability among their team and among themselves starts to deteriorate once they've reached the top.”
2022-05-16 · The Diary of a CEO · The Man Who Coached Michael Jordan AND Kobe Bryant To WIN!: Tim Grover · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know what As individuals become more successful. Everybody around them becomes yes people. Nobody wanted to say no to Michael Jordan. I was that individual. We had many times we had very heated short arguments. Like three words, which I won't say because it'll offend a lot of your listeners.”
2022-05-16 · The Diary of a CEO · The Man Who Coached Michael Jordan AND Kobe Bryant To WIN!: Tim Grover · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes. You know, he gave me one of the best compliments that you can ever get at the highest level. When somebody else would say, hey, I want to hire Tim. He goes, I don't pay Tim to train me. He goes, I pay him not to train anybody else.”
2022-05-16 · The Diary of a CEO · The Man Who Coached Michael Jordan AND Kobe Bryant To WIN!: Tim Grover · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“A certain amount of reps on this exercise and certain amount of reps on this exercise, certain time spent over here, certain time spent over here. There was no books out there that told me this was the right thing to do. I just knew it was right I just knew it was right. And now they use this methodology all the time.”
2022-05-16 · The Diary of a CEO · The Man Who Coached Michael Jordan AND Kobe Bryant To WIN!: Tim Grover · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“and the differences between the right and left side. So I would literally count, this is how many steps you took left, this is how many steps you took right, this is how many times you took backward, this is how many times he landed on his right foot. This is how many times he landed on his left foot. So I'd have all this data so the next morning when I would get up, I'd be able to plan, okay, you know what, MJ, this side you used your left leg 60% more than you use your right leg, but you used your right hand more than you use. Okay, so this is what we're going to do from a workout standpoint on. This is what we're going to do from a training standpoint because one side's going to need different training than the other side is going to need. So we would have different exercises where he'd have 50 pounds in one hand and 10 in the other.”
2022-05-16 · The Diary of a CEO · The Man Who Coached Michael Jordan AND Kobe Bryant To WIN!: Tim Grover · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Videotape you stuck in. So, what I would do is I'd have to be at the basketball games very early. I'd make sure everything was prepped and he was ready to go. And we were always the last individuals to leave. I'd rewatch the game. I would count his steps. Was no Fitbit back then. There was no tracking measurements or so forth. I need it in my thought, and this went back to my process of not what to think, how to think. Is well, how can I prepare him for his next workout in the morning if I don't know what? How much physical activity”
2022-05-16 · The Diary of a CEO · The Man Who Coached Michael Jordan AND Kobe Bryant To WIN!: Tim Grover · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“One of the reasons I get along so well with all my clients, professionally business-wise, socially or everybody, because they know I'm just as messed up as they are. I don't judge them. My daughter always says, she goes, You have no weird R. She goes, nothing to you is weird. Nothing to you. And I always, when I see something, I just say interesting. Wanted to know What that person is doing and why they're doing it. And what's fueling that desire? What are they using that desire? What are they going to fuel it with? with other individuals. One of the stories I tell years when I first started, when I first started working with MJ. And this is a lot of your listeners will be too young to remember this, but the recording devices back then was called a Betamax.”
2022-05-16 · The Diary of a CEO · The Man Who Coached Michael Jordan AND Kobe Bryant To WIN!: Tim Grover · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“What he meant by that is not as a trainer keep up in life. This ride, we don't know which direction it's going to go, and we don't know if it's going up, down, sideways, but be ready for anything this throws at us.”
2022-05-16 · The Diary of a CEO · The Man Who Coached Michael Jordan AND Kobe Bryant To WIN!: Tim Grover · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Become obsessed with something else, and it could be this stage in your life where your success and your happiness is now, listen, I just wanted to create happiness for myself and for the individuals around me.”
2022-05-16 · The Diary of a CEO · The Man Who Coached Michael Jordan AND Kobe Bryant To WIN!: Tim Grover · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Your foundation and your fundamental principles so strong that if this thing was to go away. Could you still create happiness and success all over again if you Everything else They've gone to do multiple things. that have allowed them to create different levels of happiness within that confined circle. You know, Michael had basketball And he had the shoe brand. Now he's got other endeavors. He's involved in a lot of philanthropy things. The competitive nature doesn't stop. And everybody thinks you can only be happy with one certain aspect in your life. You can create happiness in multiple things in your life. And if it gets to a point where it is burning, it is burning you out, that means it's time for that you are no longer obsessed with that thing anymore and it's time for you to be”
2022-05-16 · The Diary of a CEO · The Man Who Coached Michael Jordan AND Kobe Bryant To WIN!: Tim Grover · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Let he never let that sport control him. He was like, there are certain things within this game. Yes, I have to follow these rules. I have to do things. But there's certain things that I still have to be in charge of my life. I still have to be in charge of who I am. I still have to be in charge of my brand. And then what happens is when you let external things and you start playing for the wrong reason, a lot of individuals, and this is thing in sports now everyone talks about building their brand, building their brand. All right. And if you follow the people who have had the greatest success building their brand is they just outperform individuals. They put a better product out there. Do your job better than anybody else and your brand will build itself. So when people look for that happiness factor,”
2022-05-16 · The Diary of a CEO · The Man Who Coached Michael Jordan AND Kobe Bryant To WIN!: Tim Grover · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“When he talked about that insecurity, that darkness, that need for it to be validated. Is it controlling you or are you controlling it? The one thing that listened, there was a point where as obsessed as Michael was with basketball. He never let the sport control him.”
2022-05-16 · The Diary of a CEO · The Man Who Coached Michael Jordan AND Kobe Bryant To WIN!: Tim Grover · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So when you talk about creating happiness, are you creating happiness that you've created or somebody else has created for you? Are you writing your story of happiness or did somebody else write your story of happiness and hand it to you and say, here, this is how you become happy?”
2022-05-16 · The Diary of a CEO · The Man Who Coached Michael Jordan AND Kobe Bryant To WIN!: Tim Grover · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Things that aren't as important as important to you at this particular moment. And I'm not telling you kids, listen, don't separate yourself from your family. But there's a lot of times that your family doesn't see the same things that you see and the same things that you believe in. They've had a certain way of doing things. My family very supportive, very supportive. But to them, success was. Working for a institution. You got a paycheck every single two weeks. Got health insurance You got paid vacation You got a 401k. That was their definition of success and happiness. None of that would have made me happy.”
2022-05-16 · The Diary of a CEO · The Man Who Coached Michael Jordan AND Kobe Bryant To WIN!: Tim Grover · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It does, you know, listen, winning does not always equate to winning does not always equate to happiness. It just doesn't. For I've had a lot of individuals that have come to me and just said, this is too intense. I'll give you a great example. You know, everyone Kobe's known for mama mentality. That was his thing a mentality. I've seen, first of all, mama mentality is not a mentality. It's a lifestyle. The first thing I tell individual. And once I tell them about the lifestyle, I've seen mama mentality destroy more careers than I've seen it help. Too intense, too hot. People want the flame, but they don't want to touch the fire. Are you willing to put aside?”
2022-05-16 · The Diary of a CEO · The Man Who Coached Michael Jordan AND Kobe Bryant To WIN!: Tim Grover · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Can't make that decision for those individuals. My job if happiness could be winning for them But you don't find happiness, you create it. You're not going to find winning. You have to create, you have to create winning habits”
2022-05-16 · The Diary of a CEO · The Man Who Coached Michael Jordan AND Kobe Bryant To WIN!: Tim Grover · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“They've learned To disconnect Learned how to delete the unessentials because you spend so much time. Being obsessed and paying attention to the details that you don't have time, you don't have focus for the unessentials. The most successful people have the smallest circles.”
2022-05-16 · The Diary of a CEO · The Man Who Coached Michael Jordan AND Kobe Bryant To WIN!: Tim Grover · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You have to surround yourself with people when your life is unbalanced and With individuals that would be selfish for you. They understand your obsession. They understand your drive. They understand your attention to details. I guarantee it almost, I don't know your whole team. But I guaranteed almost everyone on your team at some point every single day they become selfish for another individual so that individual can perform and do their task at the highest level. That's how you get closer to balance. You want to get closer to balance. Don't continue to add stuff. closer to balance by deleting the unessentials. Delete the unessentials, the most successful people And the success when I talk about success, I'm not just talking about from a financial standpoint, whatever success means to you and whatever success means to you in your life.”
2022-05-16 · The Diary of a CEO · The Man Who Coached Michael Jordan AND Kobe Bryant To WIN!: Tim Grover · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You need more ballast, you need more ballast, you need more ballots. You don't find balance. You create it. And it's different for every individual out there. The balance I've created may be completely different than the balance you've created. And there's certain times in your life that the scales are definitely going to be weighing towards one side more than the other. In early part of Kobe's Kobe's career, it was about basketball and winning, about basketball and winning and towards the end of the end of his career. And, you know, he played for 20 years, it became more or less about winning. It was still about basketball and it became more focused, became more on spending time with the family. But you have to surround yourself with people. And this is very important to the listeners.”
2022-05-16 · The Diary of a CEO · The Man Who Coached Michael Jordan AND Kobe Bryant To WIN!: Tim Grover · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I always say this the most driven individuals. They live a life. For many years and certain times without balance. Everybody strives for balance, balance, balance. And in order to be that obsessed with something over and over again. So, if you say something that was missing, but it was actually a gift was his lack of balance. There were times. No. You can't The best at something else. And try to balance everything else around your life. There is going to be times where things are going to be out of balance. It just is. You know, so many individuals talk about that.”
2022-05-16 · The Diary of a CEO · The Man Who Coached Michael Jordan AND Kobe Bryant To WIN!: Tim Grover · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's where the separation is. The separation is in the details. It's in the details. The separation in the clothes you wear is in the details, the shoes, the car that you drive, the house, your education. It doesn't matter whether you go to the most expensive university or you drop out of the universe. It's the details you pay attention to in your studies, in whatever your career choice is. Those are the things that matter. You pay attention to the details in your family. Pay attention to the details in your kids. You pay attention to the details of what makes your significant other happy, how they react to certain things. It's people get comfortable with not having to manage the details.”
2022-05-16 · The Diary of a CEO · The Man Who Coached Michael Jordan AND Kobe Bryant To WIN!: Tim Grover · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The guy said, Yeah, he goes, Well, I want you to check it for him. He measured it. It was an eighth of an inch off. When you're that obsess, when you pay that much attention to the details. It's no different than what you said about the lighting and the microphones and the team. I've never seen. I've done quite a few podcasts. We're very selective in who we want to sit, we want to sit down with. This is the first time I've seen this many individuals.”
2022-05-16 · The Diary of a CEO · The Man Who Coached Michael Jordan AND Kobe Bryant To WIN!: Tim Grover · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And they're their portable floors, and everybody knows in certain arenas their dead spots. You force the player into that area if the ball is going to bounce there, it's not going to bounce as high, which gives the team the advantage. And a lot of times when they would move those pieces around. So we would walk around, bounce the ball, that spot, that spot, that spot, that spot. So we'd get an advantage of the details that nobody else would pay attention to that if we went into that area, we'd stay away from that area. Or if we know we can't dribble on that particular spot. And there was one time there was a game where Kobe was before the game, he was shooting free throws. And he was like, something isn't right. So he called one of the maintenance guys over. He goes, are you sure this basket is right?”
2022-05-16 · The Diary of a CEO · The Man Who Coached Michael Jordan AND Kobe Bryant To WIN!: Tim Grover · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Everyone talks about maximizing their time. Kobe and I were interested in maximizing his focus when you maximize your focus, it gave us more time. Having everything laid out for him so he wouldn't have to worry about What shoes he had to wear, where the tickets had to go for the friends and family, we would come around and in the different arenas, I would walk the floors. While he was getting dressed and I would tell him where the ball doesn't bounce as well. On a basketball court, it's made out of wood”
2022-05-16 · The Diary of a CEO · The Man Who Coached Michael Jordan AND Kobe Bryant To WIN!: Tim Grover · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You're interested, yes, to the next level for some people, it may not be number one, whatever it is. Everybody collaps up. And then I say, sit back down. Then I would ask him, I said, all right, if you're obsessed. Taking your business. Your sport. Whatever it is, to another level, stand up. Everybody would stand up again. Well, I would say, well, which one is it? One is you can't be interested and you. Interested as a hobby Kobe Bryant was not interested in winning championships. He was obsessed. Obsession comes in the small details that nobody pays attention to. And I have a saying, right, interested people watch obsessed people change the world.”
2022-05-16 · The Diary of a CEO · The Man Who Coached Michael Jordan AND Kobe Bryant To WIN!: Tim Grover · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“They want to control everything they can control so the uncontrollable becomes more manageable to them. So if they pay attention to every single detail obsessively over and over and over again And when the uncontrollable happens. Can have a better chance of controlling it. There's a big thing that we used to use with Kobe all the time is I used to ask individuals. You're interested In taking your business or your basketball game, your football skills, your podcast, and this we'd have a room of thousands and thousands of people stand up. Everybody would stand up and they give this big rounding clap and all this other stuff.”
2022-05-16 · The Diary of a CEO · The Man Who Coached Michael Jordan AND Kobe Bryant To WIN!: Tim Grover · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's everything. It's everything. And it's in the details. You know, you just described all these little things. And somebody come in, ah, it doesn't matter. You know, great example was like, you know what? When we handed you the book, you like, this cover is so much better than the other one. It's the little attention to the little things that people, everyone thinks they won't know. He hear this all the time. Don't sweat the small stuff The one percenters, the 0.01, they sweat every single detail. The one thing they let slip, somebody is going to use that to their advantage. Somebody is going to make a big deal out of it, and they're going to feel like they left something out. You know, everyone says, don't worry about the things that you can't control. These individuals.”
2022-05-16 · The Diary of a CEO · The Man Who Coached Michael Jordan AND Kobe Bryant To WIN!: Tim Grover · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes. So Michaels said that he trained every single day. He was so He was at the pinnacle of his career, and he said, it's not like I can go ahead and I can knock off three seconds. He goes, I train every single day. So I can shave point O one second. Goes, that's my ultimate goal. After three, four months of getting ready for my next race or years whatever it is, I need to be, I need to shave 0.0 one off my time. And everybody he surrounded himself with that was their job.”
2022-05-16 · The Diary of a CEO · The Man Who Coached Michael Jordan AND Kobe Bryant To WIN!: Tim Grover · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The best of the best. They're always looking for a competitor edge. They're always looking for that point zero one percent thing that can make them better. I had a conversation, and this individual, I've never worked with, but he was an event that I was speaking at also. And he spoke before me, Michael Phelps.”
2022-05-16 · The Diary of a CEO · The Man Who Coached Michael Jordan AND Kobe Bryant To WIN!: Tim Grover · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm not There's nothing about me that qualifies as most. There's nothing that qualifies me as average. Because, you know what? What's the worst thing that could have possibly happened? I'd be in the exact same situation I was in. I wasn't going to be any worse If I didn't take that initiative, I didn't take that action, I was in a worse situation.”
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“He's the best. Why would he work with an individual that's never worked with a professional athlete? So I wrote 14 letters explaining my background, what I do, what my training philosophy is, and back then you put a stamp in it, you go to the post office, you put them in the mail, and they get delivered to the player's training facility, and they get thrown into locker as fan mail. Whether the player decides to open it up or not, that's up to them. Well, obviously, somebody opened up one of the letters and Michael saw it in somebody else's locker. Pull the letter out. read it and gave it to the team physician and the athletic trainer during that time and said hey find out what this is about”
2022-05-16 · The Diary of a CEO · The Man Who Coached Michael Jordan AND Kobe Bryant To WIN!: Tim Grover · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Now, back then, remember, there's no cell phones, no emails. You just, there's no way of direct messaging, social media. There's no way of direct messaging anybody. So I said, I'm going to write letters. There's 15 players on the basketball team. I'm going to write 14 letters. The one person I'm not going to write a letter to is Michael Jordan.”
2022-05-16 · The Diary of a CEO · The Man Who Coached Michael Jordan AND Kobe Bryant To WIN!: Tim Grover · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“With all the different type of individuals, and these weren't just athletes, these were everybody who wanted to. Just get into shape, lose weight, get stronger, jump higher, run a little faster, play better tennis, whatever it may be. But I'm sitting here and I'm like, I'm only using. Maybe 10% of what I've learned And there was a small article in the local newspaper that said Michael Jordan was tired of taking the physical abuse from the Detroit Pistons and wanted to get stronger. Like, okay. So I said, you know what?”
2022-05-16 · The Diary of a CEO · The Man Who Coached Michael Jordan AND Kobe Bryant To WIN!: Tim Grover · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT