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Tracy Graham

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“And I got a scholarship to St. Rita High School in Chicago, which is private school. That's important because it fundamentally changed my life and that really sort of became the catalyst that ultimately led to me getting involved in football, being president of my freshman class, really starting to see what I would consider to be the whole world and not sort of the part of the world that I had grown up in as up to elementary school. So I play football and did pretty well in school. Although I don't know that I had all the disciplines that I probably needed. I didn't establish those in elementary school, but I did very well. Maybe it was just talent. I don't know. And I did well at St. Rita. And then very interesting part of that, Lou Holtz came to my house as a senior. I played football at Notre Dame all four years for Lou Holtz. And he came to my house on my senior year, walked through the door, put his feet up on my coffee table, and basically said to my mom that”
2020-12-29 · Invest Like the Best · Tracy Graham - Investing in Overlooked Businesses – [Invest Like the Best, EP.206] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Wonderful. Well, thanks, Patrick, for having me first off. It is very likely that my origin story is not going to be the same as most. I'll start really early if that's okay with you. Okay, I'll start really early. So I was born and raised in Englewood District of Chicago. For those who are sort of seeing the current losing Chicago, you kind of get an idea of what the Inglewood area of Chicago was like even 20 plus years ago when I was growing up there. So I grew up in the Inglea district and pretty much attended a elementary school, attended this public school that in effect was, I'm going to say, 99.9% African American and there probably was one or two Hispanics that went to school with us. So we grew up in this really hard core environment where walking to school was a bit of a challenge for us. I mean, you could sort of get into anything just getting to school. And I was fortunate enough to have an opportunity to attend a private high school on a scholarship. You and I were talking a little bit about basketball, but I was actually a basketball player during that time.”
2020-12-29 · Invest Like the Best · Tracy Graham - Investing in Overlooked Businesses – [Invest Like the Best, EP.206] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source