Michael Stone
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827 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2011
last heard Nov 2015
Michael Stone’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So one thing we try to do
build athlete-to-athlete discussion.
You know, I want to get, you know, any athlete who wants to learn about the franchise industry, we're working with Junior Bridgman about creating an internship program at Bridge Foods.
We're talking to Tinsley, George Tinsley, about creating a program at Tinsley Enterprises because I think one thing we want to be able to do is show them this is what your life can look like after sports and then show them the alternative.
This is what your life can look like.
But once you can get a guy to sit down and if it takes...
a Magic Johnson to sit down a young NBA player to realize that you need to start pinning yourself down and doing these things to be where I'm at you know it takes that much I think that's what we want to try to get done is show the athletes examples of success and examples of failure
yeah.
Oh, yeah.
You don't.
And it's almost the nature of the athlete.
It's almost what makes you able to compete is to be able to take all doubt out of your mind.
You know, when I play, when you come into a game with an inch of doubt in your mind, you're going to get killed that day.
And that's the way you have to compete is to not have any fear of failure and not to think about the failure.
But at the same time, you almost have to be double-minded and be able to still plan outside the game for the failures that may happen.
Oh, yeah, definitely.
I actually retired because of a hip injury with a giant.
So I didn't plan on retiring at 70 years, but
hip injury with a giant that was forced to retire.
So nobody retires on their own terms in sports, I don't think, you know,
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