Showing posts with label inspirational. Show all posts
Showing posts with label inspirational. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Great story by the current Jets head coach explaining when he knew he wanted to be a coach



Related, I recently stumbled on this 2019 article about Taysom Hill's college career:
By his junior season at BYU, Hill was a Heisman Trophy candidate with the likes of Marcus Mariota and Jameis Winston – both are now starting NFL quarterbacks. That season, however, was cut short due to an injury. That was all too familiar for Hill as four of his five seasons at BYU ended in injuries -- a knee injury, a broken fibula, a foot fracture and an elbow strain.

What got Hill through all those injuries?

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Hill would go back to advice he received from [Jim] Harbaugh, who he stayed in contact with after the recruiting process.

"He shared with me an experience that he had when he was playing at Michigan where he had just broken his arm his junior year and wasn't able to play and compete," Hill said.

Harbaugh told Hill that the best way to fill the void of not being able to play football was to compete in something else.

"I went and competed in the classroom," Hill said. "That filled the void mentally and emotionally of where I was feeling like I was like still contributing to Taysom Hill the person
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Wednesday, September 11, 2024

RIP Rick Rescorla

Wikipedia:

Rescorla anticipated attacks on the towers and implemented evacuation procedures that were credited with saving thousands of lives. He died during the attacks of September 11, 2001, going back to help evacuate more people in the South Tower after he had organized the evacuation of the Morgan Stanley offices.

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Rescorla and Hill wrote a report to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the site, insisting on the need for more security in the parking garage. Their recommendations, which would have been expensive to implement, were ignored, according to James B. Stewart's biography of Rescorla, Heart of a Soldier. In the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, terrorists would detonate a truck bomb 30 feet from where Rescorla and Hill had predicted.

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Rescorla gained credibility and authority after the bombing, which resulted in a change to the culture of Morgan Stanley. Rescorla wanted the company out of the building because he continued to feel, as did Hill, that the World Trade Center was still a target for terrorists and that the next attack could involve a plane crashing into one of the towers. He recommended to his superiors at Morgan Stanley that the company leave Manhattan office space, mentioning that labor costs were lower in New Jersey and that the firm's employees and equipment would be safer in a proposed four-story building. However, this recommendation was not followed because the company's lease at the World Trade Center would not terminate until 2006. At Rescorla's insistence, all employees (including senior executives) then practiced emergency evacuations every three months.

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While watching the news coverage, in a phone call to his best friend, Dan Hill, Rescorla said, "The dumb sons of bitches told me not to evacuate," and, "They said it's just Building One. I told them I'm getting my people the fuck out of here."

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Rescorla called his wife, telling her, "Stop crying. I have to get these people out safely. If something should happen to me, I want you to know I've never been happier. You made my life,"

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Saturday, August 24, 2024

Incredible quotes by Jim Harbaugh discussing the leadership Justin Herbert showed when some Chargers got stuck in an elevator without air conditioning

It's one fabulous quote after another, but this is my favorite:

Harbaugh said every person who came off the elevator was sweating, except for Herbert, and some of the players had removed their shirts.

“Justin Herbert, his hair was a little wet, but his shirt was completely dry,” Harbaugh said. “That was another thing that blew me away. The guy is just a beast.”

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Monday, September 11, 2023

Plaque celebrating 9/11 hero Cyril Richard Rescorla

Wikipedia: 
Rescorla called his wife, telling her, "Stop crying. I have to get these people out safely. If something should happen to me, I want you to know I've never been happier. You made my life"
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Saturday, July 1, 2023

An interview with AEW's openly gay, Black wrestler, and the warm reception he's getting from the audience


Andscape:
What was your understanding of how queer wrestlers, or people who played queer characters on TV, were portrayed coming up?

I really started to pay attention to all that once [former WWE wrestler] Darren Young came out in 2013, because around that time was when I really started to think about becoming a professional wrestler. That’s when I started to pay attention to how the representation was. And it didn’t look too good for me back then, which is why I stayed in the closet. 
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You originally came out via a YouTube video where it’s said in passing. How did you decide this would be the moment that you come out publicly.

I met my boyfriend in May of 2016, and we dated secretly for six months or so. One of his dreams was to have a YouTube channel and make a video with me once we got together. And I was like, “I’m not entirely sure. I’m not out yet. I promise I’ll be out one day. I need to be ready for it.” He understood, but he was slightly hurt that he had to continue to be this secret. And then I was like, “You know what? You don’t really have that many subscribers, so I don’t think anybody’s going to see this. Let’s make this video.”

We made the video and a few months later, one of my buddies who’s a wrestler messaged me. He is like, “Hey, we saw the video. I wish you would have told us. Everybody saw it really. They love you. They respect you.” And once I saw that, I just knew that I had this opportunity to help other people who were in my shoes because I had the support of my best friends. I had the support of my family. Now I had the support of people in wrestling, which meant a lot to me. So I ended up coming out in January of 2017, and when that video took off, and it’s been a whirlwind ever since in a very, very positive way.
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Monday, June 26, 2023

Today's news and jokes





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Wednesday, March 8, 2023

Charming story about a 23-year-old being convinced to try getting a university degree by his 19-year-old cousin

Derek Owusu telling his story for The Guardian. Here's how it starts:

I wasn’t doing very well and was explaining this to my cousin, who was now my client – we spoke during most of our training sessions to extend his rest periods. It was during one of these interludes that he started going on about the benefits of university and how well he was doing. He was 19 and I was 23. My only thought while he was talking was how smart he must be, and how much I enjoyed talking to people who were at university.

Then he asked me why I didn’t go to uni: “Study exercise science, then you’ll be better than all these dead PTs in here,” he said. No chance, I thought. 

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But he was already convinced. Soon after, he arrived at my house with his sister – not unusual, as we always chilled together, though she didn’t usually borrow my laptop for so long. When I asked her what she was doing, she told me she was writing a personal statement. What’s that? “For uni,” she said. “I ain’t going to uni,” I insisted.

Two weeks later, I was putting my things in the back of my cousin’s car, enrolled as a mature student at the University of Bolton, accommodation paid for – all sorted by this 19-year-old who had some delusional faith in what I was going to achieve in higher education. He dropped me off, helped me unpack, and said he’d pick me up when I graduated. He also gave me a Qur’an and a Bible, to bless the room twice.

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Sunday, September 11, 2022

Plaque celebrating 9/11 hero Cyril Richard Rescorla

Wikipedia: 
Rescorla called his wife, telling her, "Stop crying. I have to get these people out safely. If something should happen to me, I want you to know I've never been happier. You made my life"
Meanwhile:
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Tuesday, April 20, 2021

Highlight reel for an amazing one-armed 16-year-old basketball player named Hansel



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Sunday, July 5, 2020

Nice stories about dads


































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