Quincy Avery
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149 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard May 2025
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The same way that I run the business side of our stuff, I'm a quarterback there, right? I'm playing quarterback. I got to put people in the positions to win. I got to help them be successful. I got to give them encouragement when they need it. I got to press buttons. Those are things that we all can do every single day, right?
And it's that ability to work through difficult situations is what allows these top-tier quarterbacks to be the best quarterbacks in the world.
I'm amazing. I really appreciate you having me on. So I'm excited to get to have a conversation.
I've never even heard that caution phrase that way. They're because instead of the why. So that's interesting. You know, I've been in some really difficult situations throughout my life, whether it be home, family situations, sports, or trying to figure out how to get started in a profession and then trying to forge a career in essentially a new industry.
Um, but I've always done it with a few things in mind and really it is, uh, taking care of those around me because that has been so important. Right. And being able to be there in moments when I feel like they need me, because oftentimes I feel like there's many opportunities for like other people to be there for me that they just weren't.
And I knew that, um, not only can I have an impact in training young men and helping them achieve their goals, which is amazing. But there's so many young men who we won't see in this documentary or people won't talk about who aren't in the NFL. Maybe not even college, maybe just played in high school. But those are young men that I still have relationships with to this day.
You know, I can help out and they can call on me when they need anything. I'm here to support them and care about them in a way that I truly feel is unique and authentic.
Yeah, I think I agree with you so much. We live in like an instant gratification society where people expect to have the fruits of their labor immediately. But the journey that I went on was crazy. In order to get here, I've had a thousand nights of homelessness, right? Where I was unhoused.
whether I was sleeping in the locker room or my car, just trying to figure out where I was going to lay my head. And it was just a grind because the thing that I think separates me from a lot of people is the ability to work hard despite the initial outcome. I heard no when I was trying to start training people so many times and It is crazy.
And I just look back, I could go look at my Facebook and just see like, no, unrespond, no. And those are some young men that I probably could have helped out, like do some things if their parents would have responded. Like I knew that I had a purpose and I knew that there was something that I thought that I could do at a very high level.
And when I say that I'm committed to something, I want my actions and my words to be congruent. I want people I want not to only be able to say these things, but I want people to be able to look at the actions that I have and say it for me, right? So I don't need to verbalize everything that I wanna do. I want people to see in my actions who I say I am and the goals that I say that I have.
You know, I think that I probably suffered. Even though I said that I wanted to be the best, I knew I was working hard towards those things. I probably suffered from imposter syndrome, largely for a while. And it took until... There was Trent Dilfer. There's someone who, like, I really value their opinion. He was really big in the quarterback space.
And when he saw the things that I was doing, he really was like, man, you're doing a great job. Like, I love the way that you're teaching these things. That meant a lot to me. But after that, I still... Wasn't sure. I was like, I think that I'm really good at this. I think that I'm helping these young guys out. And then the next real moment for me was I got the opportunity to train Tyra Taylor.
But Tyra Taylor had been in the NFL for nine years. He'd basically seen every quarterback coach who was in the space that I was in. He got to work with all these guys. And I got there with him for like one or two days. And he's like, now I want to hire you. And that meant a lot to me because he was making a decision on like,
A lot of the other people that I'd work with, a lot of the people that I work with, it'd only been me, right? They like, this is just what they grew up doing. But Tyrod, like that to me was like, all right, I'm really, I'm doing a great job. Right.
Because if this guy believes in the things that I'm saying, despite me meeting him at this age and I'm able to help him out that much that quickly, then I think that I'm probably better at this than I even, even I thought I was.
I didn't, I think that people. I first thought I was just going to be like self-employed, like just work for myself, be able to do this for a really long time. And that would be cool. And then I just thought about how can I impact more people?
And I think that I'm able to help both coaches that I work with, the staff that I work with and the players, like everybody gets to benefit from the ecosystem. And the only way that I could do that was be able to like truly build a business that had procedures, um, And we were able to run, like we have real systems to operate.
And I also had to remove myself a bit from the first layer of that business and be, and not just be in the weeds all the time, be 30,000 feet view. I see what we're doing, but I also see where we're trying to go. And I I've been blessed and fortunate to have some great people who work alongside me, who run our operations, who run our day to day, who run our finances.
A lot of wonderful young women who actually is cool. I love this part about our business. Everybody that you see who's not on the football field, who works with our organization is a woman, primarily women of color who have been able to transform this from really an idea into, into a business where we are able to help so many kids, but it's, that is, that was the hard part. The coaching is easy.
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