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Olympic Legend Carl Lewis Still Goes For the Gold · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: heart or text I Heeart to five hundred five hundred
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Speaker 1: My next day, he said, twelve, we're ruckords doing his
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Speaker 1: eighteen year track and field career and it's at five
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Speaker 1: time USA Track and Field Olympians when in ten Olympic medals,
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Speaker 1: competing that four Olympic Games, non Olympic gold medals, one
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Speaker 1: Olympics Civil medals from four to nineteen, as well as
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Speaker 1: eight World Championship gold medals. He's one of the greatest
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Speaker 1: athletes in the history of modern sports, named Sportsman of
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Speaker 1: the Century by the I o C. Please, welcome to
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Speaker 1: money making conversation. My man, call Louis, Hey, how are
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Speaker 1: you doing? Oh? I like that background? Hey, call call
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Speaker 1: call see let's a Car, I just couldn't introduce you.
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Speaker 1: I had to introduce you well you know, and I'll
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Speaker 1: take that withe on the road. How about that? I mean,
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Speaker 1: you know something, and uh, you know, it's funny that
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Speaker 1: we're on the phone because you know, when you when
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Speaker 1: you're school for seven years, you can't get to meet everybody. College.
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Speaker 1: Car was at the college when I was at college
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Speaker 1: and University of Houston. We both went the University Houston
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Speaker 1: well and also congratulations on university used to repeating as
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Speaker 1: track and field tampion for the men's team. Right, well,
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Speaker 1: yet we we treated we we um double double. We
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Speaker 1: won't indoor it outdoor the last two years and um,
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Speaker 1: we're really excited. The guys really stepped up and uh
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Speaker 1: they they their whole ideas that they still like the championship,
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Speaker 1: the conference championship is there to protect. It's like, no,
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Speaker 1: this is our no matter what house we're in, we're
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Speaker 1: gonna protect it. And the guys really did, especially since
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Speaker 1: we were at home, they were to protected this house.
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Speaker 1: Now now they wanted into and a facility named after
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Speaker 1: you to call Lewis facility, right, yeah, And it's kind
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Speaker 1: of it's kind of weird when you're looking at it
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Speaker 1: running up to it. Um, everybody in the conference was like, Okay,
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Speaker 1: he's sitting there coaching. They have the best team in
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Speaker 1: the conference. And then it's a Leroy Barrel who's the
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Speaker 1: head coach scoreboard and the Tom Toles track at the
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Speaker 1: car Lewis Complex. It was like, these guys are like,
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Speaker 1: what are we doing here? We was just handed over.
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Speaker 1: I mean it's like a bus doll of walking into
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Speaker 1: Now he's the head coach as a track team. Not
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Speaker 1: called you look like you was there? Great? And when's
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Speaker 1: the championship now? Le roy Le? Well, you know what
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Speaker 1: I tell you? People ask me, you know, how do
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Speaker 1: I keep my fitness and I just tell them I've
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Speaker 1: been hungry since nine to keep it simple. Yeah, it's
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Speaker 1: it's it's it's a it's a tough challenge, but it's
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Speaker 1: something I want to do. You know. My thing is that, Um,
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Speaker 1: I go around the world. I speak. I just just
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Speaker 1: two weeks ago, I was in Saudi Arabia doing a
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Speaker 1: conference and and I want to make sure when I
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Speaker 1: go places people remember, you know people when I walk
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Speaker 1: into a room, I want people to kind of go back.
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Speaker 1: And my thought is always, um, whether it's our times
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Speaker 1: or the racist It's kind of like an old song
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Speaker 1: and everyone knows when that song comes on, it takes
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Speaker 1: you back to that moment. And so if I can
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Speaker 1: keep the same look and the feeling and the same
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Speaker 1: energy when I walk into a room where I present myself,
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Speaker 1: I want people to go back to that moment. I
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Speaker 1: don't want to to think about it now. I wanted
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Speaker 1: to say, hey, I remember that time when he was
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Speaker 1: running down there and we all feel good. Man. I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna tell you something because I saw him a year ago,
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Speaker 1: was at a banquet. We said, at the same table together,
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Speaker 1: and he does look fantastic. And the thing that I
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Speaker 1: really respect because you know, when you do these interviews,
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Speaker 1: you have to do a little research. And so I
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Speaker 1: knew he was from Weirsboro, New Jersey. That's where he
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Speaker 1: attended high school, and he came down to the University
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Speaker 1: of Houston. But what I didn't know was really, you
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Speaker 1: from the South. Oh yeah, yeah. I was born in
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Speaker 1: Birmingham and my mother was born in Gaston, Alabama. Father Montgomery,
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Speaker 1: and our whole family was from Alabama. So we I'm
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Speaker 1: from the South. We we kind of moved to the
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Speaker 1: north and sixty three. Um, like a lot of people
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Speaker 1: immigrated north. And I remember my mother telling me, I
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Speaker 1: found out that my sister was making more teaching than
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Speaker 1: she was because my parents teachers uh Tuskegee graduates. That's
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Speaker 1: where they met and m hpc U in the house
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Speaker 1: and so, um, she found they were making more in
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Speaker 1: the north. And so you know, they were fighting a
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Speaker 1: big fight and heavily involved in civil rights down there,
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Speaker 1: and they just said, you know, we've done our job
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Speaker 1: and let's just move forward and get a better job,
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Speaker 1: better thing for our children. I'm gonna I'm gonna say
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Speaker 1: something now. I don't want you to take this negative
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Speaker 1: because you're because you're you're superstar in the track and
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Speaker 1: field world, and man, you sound so engaging. It sounds
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Speaker 1: like a guy I would walk up to and just
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Speaker 1: just want to have a conversation. We're on this phone.
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Speaker 1: Did you get that, DoD You get people because you've
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Speaker 1: been such you're a global talent and you're superstar that
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Speaker 1: people see you have perception of a person that you
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Speaker 1: can't come up to or am I misreading something, No,
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Speaker 1: you know, it's it's it's a combination. I think people
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Speaker 1: are automatically think that, um, oh my gosh, you you're known,
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Speaker 1: so I should stand offish, but you know, my energy
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Speaker 1: is Look, look, the reality is that I I started
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Speaker 1: off and I wasn't a great athlete. I was a
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Speaker 1: late bloomer, um, very late boomer, and it didn't really
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Speaker 1: happen to the end of high school. And I went
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Speaker 1: to college and obviously had my success. But but I
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Speaker 1: wake up every every day thankful. I mean, can you
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Speaker 1: imagine someone who says I'd love to run one day,
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Speaker 1: and and then I get up and I run fast,
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Speaker 1: I jumped far, and I've been able to parlay this
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Speaker 1: into a life and a career. I wake up thankful.
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Speaker 1: So even though they're tough times and challenging days, I
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Speaker 1: only let that go for a minute, though, because I'm
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Speaker 1: thankful that i could be who I am, Thankful that
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Speaker 1: I've been given this amazing God given talent, Thankful for
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Speaker 1: the people around me, Thankful for parents that were wonderful,
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Speaker 1: Thankful for my father who was a great role model,
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Speaker 1: and my mother who was who was a great role model.
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Speaker 1: So I so at the end of the day, I
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Speaker 1: there's nothing for me to even giving energy off to.
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Speaker 1: You know, sometimes you can frustrate and tired. But then
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Speaker 1: I checked myself, you know, and when I get too long,
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Speaker 1: I go to the mirror and just talk about first
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Speaker 1: to get it together, you know, call the interesting thing
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Speaker 1: about reason. I'mill giving you a little history of here
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Speaker 1: because I want people to remember how great this man was.
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Speaker 1: He is, I want to say us. I apologize for
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Speaker 1: saying was is. And also he said something that he
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Speaker 1: was a late bloomer, which means that he didn't suddenly
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Speaker 1: just jump out and then jump for Bran two hundred
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Speaker 1: and one hundred. It was a crap that he has
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Speaker 1: is what made you really focus into the track and
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Speaker 1: field arena and and and make you blossom into this
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Speaker 1: special talent that uh that blessed us all on the
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Speaker 1: on the world stage. Well it really starts. My My
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Speaker 1: story starts probably a hundred years ago with my grandfather
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Speaker 1: who supported my mother and my mother went to Tuskeg
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Speaker 1: Institute with with a scholarship some money to go to
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Speaker 1: college for track and field, and in those days, you know,
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Speaker 1: you had to work and work in the field. And
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Speaker 1: my father, Um, my grandfather said, hey, if you're gonna
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Speaker 1: be seen and in college wants you, I'll make it.
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Speaker 1: I'll figure out a way for you to go to college.
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Speaker 1: And then my father went went to uh, the military,
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Speaker 1: bill and go to college. And that's where it starts.
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Speaker 1: So I would be remiss if I didn't thank my
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Speaker 1: grandfather for being having a foresight and my grandmother to
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Speaker 1: say to allow my mother to go to college. And then, uh,
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Speaker 1: they they're my coaches. Um. They started a track club
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Speaker 1: because my mother wanted to track and field for girl
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Speaker 1: girls did not have track program, so she started for
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Speaker 1: girl boys going and so I was I was trained
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Speaker 1: by them, and a lot of people don't know. My
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Speaker 1: mother made the Olympic team in nineteen fifty two. He
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Speaker 1: went he Um, it's an amazing story. Rosa Parks was
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Speaker 1: a good friend of hers and Dr King was a
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Speaker 1: family friend and they did this. They were involved in
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Speaker 1: the civil rights movement. My mother even met um Eva
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Speaker 1: Perone because she went to Argentina down in the early fifties.
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Speaker 1: I mean, so she's just been all over and just
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Speaker 1: just an amazing They raised us with that rich history
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Speaker 1: of being the best that you can be. And then
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Speaker 1: I watched them as track coaches, as public school teachers, um,
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Speaker 1: give their lives to the community. And that's why I
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Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, I had already learned the class.
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Speaker 1: But they, but they, they really taught me to just
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Speaker 1: though you're gonna have tough times, focus on your excellent
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Speaker 1: and focus on being the best you can be. And
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Speaker 1: that's what I did. And then when I became successful,
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Speaker 1: it made it easier to last because I never focused
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Speaker 1: And that's what kept me going for so long. Let
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Speaker 1: I'm definitely in the run faster than I could category
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Speaker 1: now because not as fast as I could before. They
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Speaker 1: this three man. You look like you can still sprint
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Speaker 1: you have with the Amateur Athletic Union. Well, we have
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Speaker 1: a partnership with the a AU Amage Athletic Union, and
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Speaker 1: it's it's exciting for me. Number one, mother ran for
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Speaker 1: the AU back in the forties and fifties and that's
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Speaker 1: what that's what it was. It was only the AU
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Speaker 1: and then in the early seventies and through the nineteen
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Speaker 1: seventies that's what I ran. I ran a you all
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Speaker 1: the way through the national eighties groups starting at nine
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Speaker 1: years old. And for us to come back and have
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Speaker 1: a partnership where we can teach these kids, um how
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Speaker 1: to run the best they can or how to move
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Speaker 1: and multiple sports is amazing. You know when I was
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Speaker 1: when I was a kid, um, I met John Carlos
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Speaker 1: because John Carlos tried out for the Thirdelphi Eagles and
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Speaker 1: he was in the area and he had a home
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Speaker 1: in the area where I used to wear the living
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Speaker 1: grown New jerseys. Right so he Um, my mother is
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Speaker 1: to introduced me to John Carlos. My father introduced me
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Speaker 1: to Jeff the Owens. Um. I had these amazing opportunities
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Speaker 1: to meet these just larger than like people that inspired
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Speaker 1: me and so here I here we are. But that
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Speaker 1: had I had to do that. I had to go
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Speaker 1: meet them and touched their hand and see them and
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Speaker 1: then go back and and go to a dictionary and
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Speaker 1: look up their story. Well, nowadays we can bring all
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Speaker 1: can talk to all these kids and give them the advice.
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Speaker 1: You know, we have webinars, we have blogs. Uh, we
17:12
Speaker 1: do uh anything. And and the biggest thing about the
17:15
Speaker 1: Perfect Method, it's two way. You know. I have a
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Speaker 1: team called Perfect Method post Collegiate and everyone has a story.
17:22
Speaker 1: You know. I have an athlete when I coach at
17:24
Speaker 1: the University of Houston, when he came in, he did
17:27
Speaker 1: a blog. His name is was Shaan Collins. He's running.
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Speaker 1: He's one of the hottest sprayers in the world right now,
17:31
Speaker 1: and and he is. He gave a blog about really
17:35
Speaker 1: talking about buying in about a young athlete who needs
17:39
Speaker 1: to just you know, sometimes there's a reason why you
17:42
Speaker 1: have two ears and one mouth because you listen and
17:45
Speaker 1: believe you know, you can be afraid to try something different,
17:48
Speaker 1: but but you can't. You can't shouldn't be afraid, uh
17:51
Speaker 1: to put yourself out there. And and a lot of
17:53
Speaker 1: times that it doesn't work because people are like, oh,
17:56
Speaker 1: what if it doesn't happen, what if I can't do it? Well,
17:59
Speaker 1: if you're that but you're not gonna be successful, you
18:01
Speaker 1: have to try. We all know. And you're talking about business,
18:04
Speaker 1: um no one, no business comes out and someone just says, oh,
18:09
Speaker 1: here's a great idea. I just started the first time.
18:12
Speaker 1: It doesn't work that way. But even inventors and everyone
18:15
Speaker 1: I tell you, they failed probably more times ten times
18:19
Speaker 1: more than they ever succeeded. It's the person that is
18:22
Speaker 1: willing to persevere and keep trying a new idea or
18:25
Speaker 1: coming bright with something else and and staying at it.
18:27
Speaker 1: And if you have to raise more money to start again,
18:29
Speaker 1: you do that. That's really what the perfect method is
18:31
Speaker 1: that it's about It's about saying it's okay to try
18:34
Speaker 1: to be perfect, but and just keep going again. Get
18:37
Speaker 1: all the information. And you know what, one thing I
18:40
Speaker 1: tell people, if you think what you're doing is incorrect,
18:43
Speaker 1: you can help me just as much as a people
18:45
Speaker 1: that know it, because you know what, there may be
18:47
Speaker 1: someone else that's doing an incorrect like you, and they'll
18:50
Speaker 1: search your idea and then we could guide into the
18:52
Speaker 1: correct way as well. Call Now, there was three key
18:56
Speaker 1: areas that I was doing my little you know, I'm
18:58
Speaker 1: a research act. I got no I'm doing. Let's talk
19:01
Speaker 1: about physical readiness including condition, exercise, and nutrition. Also technical
19:06
Speaker 1: skills to compete at their best, and mental preparations. I
19:09
Speaker 1: think we were talking to a couple of things there.
19:12
Speaker 1: We talked about everyday people, but we also talking about
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Speaker 1: trained athletes. Correct, am I right? Let's talk about the
19:18
Speaker 1: mental preparation for the trained athlete. Well, I think the
19:24
Speaker 1: biggest thing is that UM in sports or in anything,
19:29
Speaker 1: I think people are too emotional UM and the mental preparation.
19:32
Speaker 1: Everyone's emotion about it and they get psyched up and
19:36
Speaker 1: everything else. Well, you know, psyching up doesn't win races.
19:39
Speaker 1: Focus does, Precision does and and the mental preparation is
19:43
Speaker 1: just allowing you to channel that energy. You know. I
19:47
Speaker 1: when when I used to go to competition, I never
19:50
Speaker 1: went there trying to win the race. I went there
19:53
Speaker 1: trying to perform something that I could do. I had
19:56
Speaker 1: no control of the gold medal, but I control about performing.
20:00
Speaker 1: So if if I if I go in and I
20:02
Speaker 1: knew a performance had to be, let's say nine nine
20:04
Speaker 1: zero and a hundred, we win it. I focused on
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Speaker 1: the nine nine zero, and so every single day was
20:10
Speaker 1: can you how do you run nine nine zero? Instead
20:12
Speaker 1: of saying I hope I win the gold medal, and
20:15
Speaker 1: and then sometimes that works. Now it's for the funny
20:18
Speaker 1: thing about that nine times, Um, I was able to
20:21
Speaker 1: win gold medals. You mentioned that earlier, and I lost
20:23
Speaker 1: a silver medal in Soul, Korea. Well, the interesting thing
20:26
Speaker 1: about it is I went into Soul saying, UM, going
20:29
Speaker 1: for four events, and I said, you know what if
20:31
Speaker 1: I were in nineteen eight zero, I can win this
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Speaker 1: two hundred meters. Well guess what, Um, the guy that
20:37
Speaker 1: won it ran nineteen seven five, but I ran nineteen
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Speaker 1: seven nine. So I walked away saying I didn't win
20:44
Speaker 1: this gold medal. But I did what I came to.
20:46
Speaker 1: This guy had a tremendous uh personal best. He ran
20:50
Speaker 1: the race of his life. Rand phenomenal. But sometimes you
20:53
Speaker 1: can't beat that. But I walked away with my head high.
20:56
Speaker 1: We did a lap together because I did what I
20:58
Speaker 1: came to do. Focus on what you control on. That's
21:01
Speaker 1: the thing about the mental preparation. Prepare yourself. You know,
21:04
Speaker 1: I see a lot of kids now with earphones and
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Speaker 1: everything in their power songs, and I gotta slap myself up,
21:09
Speaker 1: and I tell them, you know, how you psyche yourself up.
21:11
Speaker 1: The way you're ready on Saturday is you know, you
21:15
Speaker 1: wouldn't go to a test and not study, and then
21:17
Speaker 1: all of a sudden I go Saturday and say, oh
21:19
Speaker 1: I need my my music on. So you actually sit
21:21
Speaker 1: down and you study and you prepare. So that's the
21:24
Speaker 1: mental preparation and and and helping you manage how do
21:27
Speaker 1: you prepare to be your best that day to make
21:31
Speaker 1: do something that makes you proud of what you've accomplished. Now,
21:34
Speaker 1: this is the part that don't don't want to hear
21:37
Speaker 1: the nutrition Paul, the diet. See I'm a sweet potato
21:43
Speaker 1: pie guy, peach cobbler guy. So I'm that's why I'm saying,
21:47
Speaker 1: that's why I'm still running slow. But let's talk about
21:49
Speaker 1: the nutrition aspect of what you get when you go
21:52
Speaker 1: to the Perfect Method dot net. Well, first of all,
21:55
Speaker 1: they say you already you eat, and the reality is
22:01
Speaker 1: that it starts with moderation. I mean, you don't have
22:04
Speaker 1: to eliminate everything. But the Perfect Method gives you a
22:06
Speaker 1: guidance on what to eat. You can also check, um,
22:10
Speaker 1: check your body to see what you're missing, maybe to nutrition,
22:15
Speaker 1: mineral things like that that you're missing that could help
22:17
Speaker 1: you metabolize better. But there but when it really breaks
22:20
Speaker 1: down to it, um, anyone can out eat exercise. So
22:26
Speaker 1: it's not just about your diet. Your diet is a
22:28
Speaker 1: important component of it. But um, but you have to
22:31
Speaker 1: confine that with your exer because if you want to
22:35
Speaker 1: if you want to keep yourself in good shape. But
22:38
Speaker 1: that's just anything, you know. When I when I talk
22:40
Speaker 1: to athletes, you have to give up something to be successful. Um,
22:45
Speaker 1: it's just just the way in life. I mean successful
22:47
Speaker 1: people they say, oh my goodness, gracious, you don't do this.
22:50
Speaker 1: You weren't there. You weren't there. Well, I was trying
22:52
Speaker 1: to be successful you know, I'm fifty five years old,
22:55
Speaker 1: and in my twenties I worked really hard. I traveled
22:57
Speaker 1: the world. I didn't party when we were on the
22:59
Speaker 1: road for competitions. I stayed in my room. Um uh.
23:04
Speaker 1: In high school, like I went to my prom two
23:06
Speaker 1: hours late, I didn't go into school crypt. I missed
23:09
Speaker 1: all the parties. But you know what I tell people now,
23:11
Speaker 1: I give them. It's just you have to give something
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Speaker 1: to get something. Call. I want to thank you man
23:22
Speaker 1: for calling. Man. I'm a fan brother, and you you
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Speaker 1: call me, I'll come on any time. I love it
23:30
Speaker 1: and great talk to you again. And uh anytime you
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Speaker 1: called me, I'm gonna SKay perfect method dot net. Also,
23:37
Speaker 1: I'm gonna chop this up and I'm gonna circulate this
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Speaker 1: will as well. Thank you very much. Appreciate y'all. Paul
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