Kelly Slater
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
That makes your dad really happy.
That's how you know if your dads are cool with what you do.
Yeah, he was fine.
Whatever.
He was like, all right, you can skip practice.
But I played basketball and baseball and football, and I loved them all.
I was a big baseball and football fan as a kid and knew everything about the sports.
I was actually quite good at football, and I was quite good in the field at baseball.
I wasn't a great hitter, but
I really understood.
I could see the plays almost in slow motion, you know, because I loved the game.
I studied it so much as a kid.
Right.
Both the games.
But funny story.
I told someone this story the other day.
The Astros used to do their training in Coco near where we live.
And so we used to go to some of the games and...
My brother caught a pop fly one time.
I probably shouldn't even tell this story, but I'm gonna, because my dad has passed away now.