Quincy Avery
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149 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard May 2025
Quincy Avery’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Running a business, oh my gosh. It's always something you run into. You run into a new challenge every single day. And navigating that and understanding people and how you communicate with them and how people need to be loved the right way. They need these words of affirmation because I think people think about those things just in personal, intimate relationships.
But everybody has a language they want to be loved in. in terms of the business side too. Some people want you to tell them like, man, you're doing a great job. Somebody wants an Instagram post with their face on it, right?
There's all these different things that some people just want credit or be able to go through the steps with the ideas that you have and you champion them and push them forward. So I'm always thinking about those things and it's been difficult, but it's been fun.
Yeah, it's definitely not talent. I think that everybody who sees you play football at a professional level is talented. That's not the easy part, but that's something that everybody has in common. But it's a mindset, the ability to work through adversity, the ability to persevere when things are not going exactly as you wish or you hoped for. Right.
And I think that that's more, that's just life, though. Like, quarterback is life, and that's what I want people to understand. I want people... Like when they watch this documentary, they see the things about me. I want them to live their life like a quarterback, right?
Because the way that quarterbacks move and the way that they operate, the way that they bring people along, the way that they galvanize a team, 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. 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. Because you're going to go through something difficult. You're going to throw an interception. You're going to cost your team a game. But it's not just that moment.
It's how do you respond. Because that interception you throw in week two, You could learn a lesson then, and you come back and win the Super Bowl because we saw that same defense. Now I knew how to respond. So was that interception in week one or week two? Was that really a loss, or did we win because of that? And that's what I want people to understand.
There's so many lessons that life is going to provide us, and it's how we respond each and every time that is going to shape us and define who we are as people.
100%.
I think that the folks on my team would talk about how I respond to adversity in a very positive way. Because as a business owner, it's always going to be something. But I never shake. I never get sad. I never get flustered. It's simply, how are we going to find a solution to the issue that we have at hand? And that's the only thing that matters.
Because everybody's going to go through these things. It's just, what is the next step that is going to allow us to be successful? It's not... about the actual, like, situation you're in. It's about how do we move forward from this difficulty? Like, how do we get better and move the needle so that when people look at us, they're like, hey, that happened, but they fixed it.
There's so many times that there's things that I can't control. I'll have a coach miss a session. I'll have somebody who drove two hours, right? And they came for a session with one of my coaches, and somebody might have missed or was miscommunicated. And those are situations where I think a lot of people would, like, not communicate or go in the shell. Oh, let me figure it out.
Hey, I'm going to get on the phone with that person. I'm going to hear where they're at. and I'm going to make sure everything's right, right? Whether that means I got to fly out there and lose thousands of dollars and go give this person a one-on-one session, because that's the standard that we want to hold ourselves to.
But when I do those things, then everybody in my organization sees what it means to me when we make a mistake. And they know that, hey, when we make a mistake, somebody's got to pay for it, right? And oftentimes it's going to fall on me, but they know that we can't continue to do those things because eventually I'm going to have to come in and make it right.
And same thing with the quarterback, right? That's what we do. We make things right. When everything is awry, we come through and fix the situation.
Yeah, and it wasn't even, I don't think that, well, we had started actually shooting this documentary maybe four years ago. And you'll see some clips from some of the things in there, but just didn't get picked up. A lot of things were going on at the time. Didn't go the way that we wanted it to. They circled back two and a half years ago, like, hey, I think that we can do it now.
And I thought that it was important. It's cool to see so many of the young black quarterbacks I've had an opportunity to work with really thriving and be able to show that. But the things that I also want to show is
how we've been able to change a culture because these quarterbacks, yes, they're the quarterback of the football teams, but they're shaping their high schools, they're shaping their colleges. And then the professional quarterbacks, they shape their cities. There's no one more influential to me in a city than their star quarterback. These people have the opportunity to give back to the community,
put back in the organization and change. They can really change the world. And I hope that people see that the work we're doing isn't just about on the football field. It's about building better young men who respond when life gets tough because that's what they see. That's what they see me doing on a day-to-day basis. Not only do I respond to adversity, but I feel like I'm a good person.
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