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    RT @JoshChambers: Troy Polamalu says while he was labeled a first round bust as a rookie, what helped him turn the corner was a Steelers veteran he was drafted to replace teaching him everything he knew, even though helping him succeed would eventually cost him his own job “My rookie year was a challenge. I couldn’t make a play of any significance. I recall reading the newspaper early in the season labeling me a first-round bust. I vowed not to read any sports columns, hoping it would somehow change. Then Mr. Dan Rooney approached me and said, ‘Don’t pay attention to what they’re saying about you. I think you’re doing fine.’ I said, ‘Mr. Rooney, they’re still talking bad about me!?’” “Mike Logan, the starting safety my rookie year, shared his full knowledge of the game wholeheartedly, showing a level of humility that helped shape my career. Like many other teammates, his selflessness paved a greater opportunity for others at his own expense.” “It’s unnatural in the most competitive environment to train your replacement, yet this is our culture, Steeler culture. These virtues I learned while playing for the Steelers are what make the legacy of the Black and Gold timeless. They’re passed down from the Steel Curtain to anyone who valiantly wears the Black and Gold.” “It creates a brotherhood deeper than money, business, and winning. To be a Steeler is to consider others before you consider yourself. You protect your brother, even from himself, and give support at your own expense. And when wearing the black and gold suit of armor make sure nobody desecrates it, disrespects it, and most importantly we ourselves don’t dishonor it. The only approval any Steeler should seek is to earn the approval from previous legends who have dawned the black and gold. And if you’ve really earned their respect, they’ll say, you could have played with us.”
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    Mike Logan says Troy Polamalu was drafted to take his job but ended up saving his life just because of how good of a person he is “Troy Polamalu is one of the greatest human beings I’ve ever met in my life. Every space he walks into, he makes it better, and he leaves it better. Troy Polamalu came in to take my position. He was drafted to take my position.” “I got hurt in the ’03 playoff game, and they were like, ‘We’ve got to upgrade this position.’ Bill Cowher told me that. He said, ‘We moved up to draft a safety in the first round. What are you going to do, bro?’ I went to training camp coming off another knee injury. I injured my other knee. Posterior reconstruction, hamstring reattachment, meniscus tear, LCL. Man, I came back and was balling.” “Watching Troy, I was like, ‘This dude, it’s coming. I might vote for him to play.’ After training camp, though, I ended up winning the starting job. Troy was just trying to get the concept. He was moving too fast. He had to slow down and learn the game. And we developed a great rapport.” “I remember at training camp, they were talking about getting his contract done. He didn’t even want to hold out, but his agent was telling him to hold out. He came to training camp up in Latrobe, and they lost his bag. He came and knocked on my door and said, ‘Man, I don’t have anything.’ I was like, ‘Bro, whatever you want, you got it. You can have it, whatever.’ From that moment, it was just like, this dude is different. He walked into my dorm and made it better. When he left, he made it better. He was so gracious for me offering anything to him.” “Then I started watching him. He was watching me, but I was watching him. This dude used to go during our breaks and just walk through the paths up at St. Vincent. He’s a real spiritual man. He was praying, and he would be walking. I just observed him. Meanwhile, he was observing me on the field, and we developed a great rapport.” “I’ve never seen an individual take pride in everything that he does. Everything. The way he speaks to people, the way he greets people, the way he talks to his wife, the way he talks to his children, the way he talks to coaches, the way he talks to staff. I’ve never seen someone treat people the way he treats people.” “Man, seeing how Troy dealt with adversity. When he first came, he was struggling and trying to find his way. Culturally, he was a little different. I used to sit and watch Troy meditate and eat dried fruit in the middle of our DB room.” “Like I told y’all, I was dealing with some turbulence in my life at that time. It was falling apart, and money couldn’t save it. Football couldn’t save it. It was a dark time for me. Dark. I was like, ‘If I’m not happy being the most successful I’ve ever been, then what’s going to happen after this? What’s going to happen when it gets darker for me?’ I knew the writing was on the wall because Troy was there. I’m thinking, ‘This is going to be his position. I’m going to be out of the league. What am I going to do?’” “Just having conversations with this dude, man. Sitting down and eating lunch with him, observing how he was and how he connected with his spirit. I used to watch him walking through the paths and trails. And guess who started walking those paths and trails afterward?” “I was ashamed of it, though. I didn’t want anybody to see me. But I’m walking through them. I got so much serenity walking those paths. I saw how he was able to deal with those things. When I got into those dark times, I reflected on Troy. I found different paths to walk, and I just mimicked him. He never knew that. He never knew that until I put it out there.” “Troy gave me a shout-out in his Hall of Fame speech. ‘Mike Logan, the starting safety my rookie year, shared his full knowledge of the game, wholeheartedly showing a level of humility that helped shape my career. Like many other teammates, his selflessness paved the greater opportunity for others at his own expense. It is unnatural in the most competitive environment to train your replacement. Yet this is our culture. Steeler culture.’” “That’s big, bro. That moment is his. He didn’t have to talk about anybody. He could have talked about everything he wanted to do, what he did to get him to that podium. This dude called me out by name.” “When me and my kids went up to Canton, Ohio, they’re playing this speech. ‘Did he say Logan? Did he say Logan?’ He didn’t have to do that, man. Like I said, that dude makes every space he walks into better, and he leaves it better than he found it.” “It made me intentional about speaking out and calling people out who’ve helped me along the way. Sometimes we take for granted the small things. But how good that made me feel, in probably the most significant moment of his NFL career, to say what somebody did for him. He said Mike Logan shared his full wealth of knowledge with me. I didn’t even know I was doing that. And for him to remember it on that grand of a stage, to me, is the ultimate homage being paid to someone.” “That dude is different, but I wish everybody was like him. If we had a world full of people who had his personality and carried themselves the way he does, what a beautiful thing, man. I got better after he said my name in the Hall of Fame speech. I got better after that.”
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    RT @JoshChambers: Phil Simms says in order to become a great quarterback it has to feel like life and death, because the margin at the top is razor thin “I always say this about quarterbacks, and I hate this phrase, but it’s the only way I know how to say it... Is it life and death? Does it mean everything to you? And I want the answer to be yes.” “And I know there’s family, your wife, your kids, whatever it is. Yes, I understand all that. But does it mean so much to you that you’re willing to do whatever it takes to make sure you don’t fail and that you get the opportunity to show what you really want to do?” “That’s what it takes. There are a lot of guys who like the idea of being a pro athlete. A lot of guys like the idea of being a quarterback. You wear the sweatshirt, the hat, whatever. But loving it means loving the work too.” “It’s lifting the weights, watching the tape, doing all the stuff that nobody sees. I loved all of it. All that training, all that work, you’re hoping it’s going to lead to success on the field.” “And any successful NFL quarterback kind of has that same thought process. They’re willing to work and do whatever they have to do to give themselves a chance to play well, to win, to win playoff games, and eventually get a chance to play in the Super Bowl.”
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    RT @JoshChambers: Mike Logan says Troy Polamalu was drafted to take his job but ended up saving his life just because of how good of a person he is “Troy Polamalu is one of the greatest human beings I’ve ever met in my life. Every space he walks into, he makes it better, and he leaves it better. Troy Polamalu came in to take my position. He was drafted to take my position.” “I got hurt in the ’03 playoff game, and they were like, ‘We’ve got to upgrade this position.’ Bill Cowher told me that. He said, ‘We moved up to draft a safety in the first round. What are you going to do, bro?’ I went to training camp coming off another knee injury. I injured my other knee. Posterior reconstruction, hamstring reattachment, meniscus tear, LCL. Man, I came back and was balling.” “Watching Troy, I was like, ‘This dude, it’s coming. I might vote for him to play.’ After training camp, though, I ended up winning the starting job. Troy was just trying to get the concept. He was moving too fast. He had to slow down and learn the game. And we developed a great rapport.” “I remember at training camp, they were talking about getting his contract done. He didn’t even want to hold out, but his agent was telling him to hold out. He came to training camp up in Latrobe, and they lost his bag. He came and knocked on my door and said, ‘Man, I don’t have anything.’ I was like, ‘Bro, whatever you want, you got it. You can have it, whatever.’ From that moment, it was just like, this dude is different. He walked into my dorm and made it better. When he left, he made it better. He was so gracious for me offering anything to him.” “Then I started watching him. He was watching me, but I was watching him. This dude used to go during our breaks and just walk through the paths up at St. Vincent. He’s a real spiritual man. He was praying, and he would be walking. I just observed him. Meanwhile, he was observing me on the field, and we developed a great rapport.” “I’ve never seen an individual take pride in everything that he does. Everything. The way he speaks to people, the way he greets people, the way he talks to his wife, the way he talks to his children, the way he talks to coaches, the way he talks to staff. I’ve never seen someone treat people the way he treats people.” “Man, seeing how Troy dealt with adversity. When he first came, he was struggling and trying to find his way. Culturally, he was a little different. I used to sit and watch Troy meditate and eat dried fruit in the middle of our DB room.” “Like I told y’all, I was dealing with some turbulence in my life at that time. It was falling apart, and money couldn’t save it. Football couldn’t save it. It was a dark time for me. Dark. I was like, ‘If I’m not happy being the most successful I’ve ever been, then what’s going to happen after this? What’s going to happen when it gets darker for me?’ I knew the writing was on the wall because Troy was there. I’m thinking, ‘This is going to be his position. I’m going to be out of the league. What am I going to do?’” “Just having conversations with this dude, man. Sitting down and eating lunch with him, observing how he was and how he connected with his spirit. I used to watch him walking through the paths and trails. And guess who started walking those paths and trails afterward?” “I was ashamed of it, though. I didn’t want anybody to see me. But I’m walking through them. I got so much serenity walking those paths. I saw how he was able to deal with those things. When I got into those dark times, I reflected on Troy. I found different paths to walk, and I just mimicked him. He never knew that. He never knew that until I put it out there.” “Troy gave me a shout-out in his Hall of Fame speech. ‘Mike Logan, the starting safety my rookie year, shared his full knowledge of the game, wholeheartedly showing a level of humility that helped shape my career. Like many other teammates, his selflessness paved the greater opportunity for others at his own expense. It is unnatural in the most competitive environment to train your replacement. Yet this is our culture. Steeler culture.’” “That’s big, bro. That moment is his. He didn’t have to talk about anybody. He could have talked about everything he wanted to do, what he did to get him to that podium. This dude called me out by name.” “When me and my kids went up to Canton, Ohio, they’re playing this speech. ‘Did he say Logan? Did he say Logan?’ He didn’t have to do that, man. Like I said, that dude makes every space he walks into better, and he leaves it better than he found it.” “It made me intentional about speaking out and calling people out who’ve helped me along the way. Sometimes we take for granted the small things. But how good that made me feel, in probably the most significant moment of his NFL career, to say what somebody did for him. He said Mike Logan shared his full wealth of knowledge with me. I didn’t even know I was doing that. And for him to remember it on that grand of a stage, to me, is the ultimate homage being paid to someone.” “That dude is different, but I wish everybody was like him. If we had a world full of people who had his personality and carried themselves the way he does, what a beautiful thing, man. I got better after he said my name in the Hall of Fame speech. I got better after that.”
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    RT @JoshChambers: Nick Saban says his dad had a rule when he worked at the family service station as an 11 year old that he carried into coaching, if you didn’t do the job right you did it again “Treat people the way you want to be treated... That was number one... The second thing was accountability. We grew up with a lot of responsibility. I worked at my dad’s service station from the time I was 11 years old.” “I don’t care what the task was, there was always a reckoning. Did you cut the grass? Did you trim? Did you sweep? Did you clean the mower? And if you didn’t do all those things right, you had to do it over.” “I remember my dad saying to me, ‘If you don’t have the time to do it right the first time, how are you going to find the time to do it over?’” “Because you are going to do it over. So accountability was really important. And the last thing was, and this was probably the thing that helped me always look for the next challenge was, no matter how many games you win, it’s never good enough... I asked my mom, ‘it’s never good enough, how come?’ And she said ‘It’s not about beating the other guy, it’s about, did you play as good as you could play.’ We're you as good as you can be? As a leader, as a player, as a teammate.”
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    RT @JoshChambers: Pete Crow-Armstrong says the mental side of baseball is still the part he struggles with most, and says he’s hired a mental skills coach to help with his process because if he unlocks that part he could reach Aaron Judge’s tier “That’s probably the last piece to the puzzle for me. I know my swing is always going to, I could be Aaron Judge, and his swing doesn’t always feel great. So the mental part really feels like the last thing that can take me to another level.” “That’s what I’m still figuring out. I don’t really know yet. I’ve done the therapy thing. I’ve talked to mental-skills people. But there’s definitely always something that drives you. I love playing baseball, and I love how difficult the sport is. There’s something new about it every day. You’re constantly learning. You’re making do with what you’ve got that day, and I think that’s super special.” “Honestly, the days you wake up feeling like death are probably my favorite days, because you’re like, ‘How are you going to make this work today?’ But I’m not really the one to talk about the mental side of things just yet, because I struggle with that the most. So I just try to take little bits and pieces from dudes I admire, mostly guys on my team.” “Last year, Justin Turner was a big one, just because he has so many years of experience. But Nico Hoerner is probably somebody whose mindset I admire the most. He talked to me about being kind to yourself and being emotionally aware, because the season is so long. You forget how you’re actually feeling sometimes when everything is about baseball.” “He’s like your model baseball player. If I had kids, I’d be like, ‘Watch how he runs to first base and then comes back to the dugout.’ He’s wired all the time. He lets his emotions out when the time calls for it, but other than that, he’s super stoic. So I lean on him very heavily.”
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    RT @JoshChambers: Alex Smith says every major period of growth in his life came after struggle, and says after his gruesome leg injury that almost ended in him having to have his leg amputated he convinced himself that it was just what he needed at that moment “Once you retire, you obviously have a lot of time to reflect on your journey, what was important, the highs and lows, what the takeaways were. I think about this a lot, especially as a dad. When I look back on my career, every moment of growth that I had, every time I literally grew, got better and improved, was preceded by struggle.” “You hit adversity. You struggle, you struggle, you struggle. Things are hard, and then all of a sudden you figure something out and you keep showing up. Then, boom, something clicks and you make a gain.” “Even at the end of my career with the injury, it was the same process. For those two years, there were so many times I thought the road had ended. But I just kept showing up, and eventually something would improve.” “When you’re in adversity, it sucks. It’s not comfortable. It’s hard. The unknown, the lack of success, all those things weigh on your mind. And I kept thinking, what if the next time something really hard comes, I have a different mindset?” “What if I said, ‘What if this is just what I need right now? What if this is the best thing for me?’ And what if I approached it that way?” “The really hard thing is thinking about my kids’ adversity that way. As a parent, you want to protect your kids. You want what’s best for them. But nobody’s journey is linear. Nobody’s journey is easy. And as a parent, letting your kids fight through struggle without helping them or bailing them out, that’s something I think about all the time.”
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    RT @JoshChambers: Harold Reynolds says Barry Bonds could read a pitcher’s grip before the ball was thrown and tell what pitch was coming from the on-deck circle “He was in a class with guys like Roberto Alomar and Rod Carew, guys I had heard about and been around, who could read pitch grips better than anybody. Barry was on that level.” “Rod Carew was my hitting coach in Anaheim when I played for the Angels. He’d walk up and down the dugout and say, ‘You guys don’t see it. I see what y’all don’t see.’ The pitcher would be sitting there, and Rod would say, ‘Changeup.’ Next thing you know, the guy throws a changeup. I’m like, ‘He hasn’t even moved yet, Rod.’ And he’d say, ‘You guys don’t see it.’” “Barry was on that level. So as a pitcher, you’re facing a guy who is probably picking up every pitch you’re throwing.” Jake Peavy: “Barry Bonds would be in the on-deck circle against me, and he’d just be leaning there. No swing, no nothing. Just watching. Sitting there, waiting. I’m thinking, ‘Let me show him something different.’ I’m telling you, he would get off that ledge, and if you threw him a strike, it was going deep.”
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    RT @JoshChambers: Sean McDermott says that every year he tells his players their health and safety comes before winning, and says the moment Damar Hamlin collapsed he had already decided he would not coach the rest of the game because he had to live up to that message “That was a unique night and one that I hope I never experience again. First of all, I’m thankful that Damar is doing well, thriving and playing football again, but more importantly, healthy and with us, because that was certainly a scary event and one that, as a coach, you never think you’re going to experience when you sign up for a job.” “What I really tried to execute that night was following through on what I pretty much start every season with in our first team meeting, communicating to the players that their health and safety is number one, above, believe it or not, winning games.” “So when Damar went down that night, you could tell pretty early that something wasn’t like a normal injury. Something was different. I could see a little bit of what was going on with Damar, but I could also see the way our trainers were reacting once they understood what was happening. They knew more at that point than I did, but I just knew something wasn’t right.” “There’s no playbook for it. How are you going to handle what’s unfolding on the field? How are you going to handle returning to play? How are you going to handle the next few days or the next week?” “I take a lot of notes. I did a lot of preparation over the years leading into becoming a head coach. But at that point, I just said, ‘If this is who you say you are, then there is no way that you can coach this game.’” “So whether that game was going to go on or not, Sean McDermott was not going to coach that game the rest of the night because of who I said that I was and what I was about. That’s the follow-through to me on leadership.” “It just so happened that both teams and the NFL decided not to play. Brandon Beane, our general manager, Terry Pegula, our owner, one of our training staff members and I went over to the hospital and spent some time with Damar’s parents. Then we returned to the team plane, and I got on the intercom and gave the team an update on what we knew at that point.” “Every day after that, leading into the next week’s game, we tried to get an update, and I would communicate that to our team. At one point, we were able to FaceTime Damar from his hospital room. You can imagine the emotion in the room that morning.”
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    RT @JoshChambers: Mike Tomlin explains why leadership is lonely, and says conviction is the key to making better decisions “When I wasn’t sure, I certainly did. But I preface that by saying, when I wasn’t sure. I’ve always had the courage of my convictions, man. And so if there was something that I was solid on, I didn’t ask.” “Sometimes people ask questions when really their mind’s made up, and I just always tried not to do that. If I was solid on something, I went with it. If I wasn’t solid on something, I certainly leaned on those guys, respected their opinions, and allowed myself to be influenced by things they felt strongly about.” “I just think more than anything, and this was told to me early on, and it’s a real thing: assistants make suggestions and head coaches make decisions. And you have to be comfortable with that.” “Certainly, you’ve got to take in information, and when you have experienced assistants like I did, man, that information is oftentimes very good. But you’ve got to be really comfortable with the fact that the responsibility is yours. The decisions are yours.” “There’s a certain loneliness to leadership, and that’s okay. I discovered that, and really I discovered that I was okay with that. There is a certain loneliness with leadership, but it comes with the territory.”
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    RT @JoshChambers: Dan Campbell says he knew Jared Goff just needed confidence to be the quarterback he needed for Detroit because he had watched him get knocked down and keep getting back up “I was fortunate to be in some very competitive games against him when I was coaching at New Orleans, and he was at the Rams. We had some battles, man. I think we played three games in a two-year period when we were both really good. The last one being, or the next-to-last, being the NFC Championship Game.” “We had an outstanding defense at New Orleans. Very aggressive front, aggressive back end. Man, you had to get the ball out. You were going to get hit, and you had to be accurate because we had sticky coverage.” “Man, that guy, he’s making throw after throw. I mean, just pinpoint accuracy, and he is getting beat up. Beat up and bounced to the turf, and he’s back up. Bounced to the turf, and he’s back up. Huge explosive throw, first down, to the turf, back up. Huge throw, touchdown.” “And I just couldn’t believe it. Every time we played him, I’m like, ‘We cannot rattle this guy. We can’t affect him.’ He’s making throw after throw, and I just remember always being impressed. You just can’t affect him.” “So when we found out that we were going to have a chance to acquire him, I mean, I was all fired up. I was all in. I was all in because I felt like, I don’t know him. I don’t know everything he’s about, but I know enough to know how tough he is and what he’s made of mentally, and his intestinal fortitude. That says a lot.” “But I knew he was our guy, and I wanted to make sure he understood that. Like, I don’t care what happens here. I don’t care if you have a bad game, you have a bad throw. I know you’re not going to have quite everything around you that we will in time. But I wanted him to know he wasn’t on an island. You’re not by yourself. I’ll be with you through this.” “And then we just tried to force him to play quarterback in the totality of it. Everything, like being the true field general. Protections, you make it right. What routes do you want? Everything from the ground up.” “And every year he’s grown and developed and gotten better and better. I mean, just the work he’s put in speaks for itself. He’s the ultimate competitor. He’s a true pro. He’s a grinder. He knows how to prepare. He’s a great leader, and the guy is just resilient.”
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    RT @JoshChambers: Mike D’Antoni says Jeremy Lin was hours away from being released by the Knicks before Linsanity began “You know, it almost didn’t come about. Remember, he’s on a 10-day contract. He’s ready to get released. He hasn’t really played, because we’re trying to bring back, I think it was Baron Davis, who was hurt. Iman Shumpert was a little hurt, and we were seeing if he could play point guard. I forget, there was somebody else.” “So I’m telling my general manager, ‘We need somebody sitting on the bench in case my only point guard goes down. We need somebody.’ And I had him there just in case. That never happened.” “So he’s ready to be released because these guys are coming back. And Kenny Atkinson, my brother Danny, and Phil Weber came to me. This was on Thursday or Friday before Friday’s game, and they go, ‘You know, Jeremy’s got something. He works out really well. Maybe we should give him a chance.’” “I go, ‘Hey, we’re going to release him on Tuesday. So if we’re going to give him a chance, we better give him a chance, right?’ And then on Friday, we gave him a chance. It exploded. It really did.” “It’s funny. I think I went to Florida because my brother had passed away, and you were hurt a little bit. I think Carmelo was hurt. Carmelo got hurt that same game when Jeremy came in and started to go. And then I was in Florida, and when I came back, I’m looking around like, ‘Wait, this is Jeremy Lin? The city’s excited about all this? What is happening?’ I stepped into it. It was a whole uproar. It was a crazy time.”
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