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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It's fun to see all these young men just getting opportunities, right? And it's never that we weren't talented enough. It was that at each step of the way, there'd be somebody who'd be like a little roadblock who'd get in our way. Hey, how about you switch positions or how about you do this or do that?
And they finally allowed us to be ourselves, to be authentically ourselves at the quarterback position in terms of the way that we play the game. I hope that they continue to not only let us do that, but be ourselves authentically off the field and be who we are and express ourselves in the way we want to express.
And we could live a life that we hope to live and like of the culture that we grew up in. But it feels, I'm truly thankful that I get an opportunity with so many quarterbacks who look like me, because I wish that there was a me for me growing up.
And I hope that I can be that not only for these, I was never talented enough to play in the NFL like these guys, but I hope that I can be there for not only the guys in the NFL, but a bunch of college guys growing up underneath them so that they know that there's going to be somewhere in there for them to, uh, take to the next level. I used to do a, uh,
Black Quarterback Club, where I brought together a bunch of black NFL quarterbacks, college and high school quarterbacks. And that's something I haven't been able to do the last few years just because life's been lifin'. But it's something I hope to be able to do again because I think that it's important.
I think that people need to be able to be in a room with other black quarterbacks because there's experiences that we're all going through, right, that are difficult. But you need to know that you're supported. And there's a bunch of other guys out there who are going through a lot of things that you're going through, but we're gonna push through it together. And that's what I hope that I can do.
I hope I can instill a whole bunch of confidence in a whole bunch of young men. And even if they're not professional quarterbacks, they're gonna be professional in something. And they're gonna know they're gonna be built for it.
The things that I really want people to get from this is to know that no matter what situation or what it may look like, your destination is your destination. And as long as you continue on your road, you might have to switch lanes. You might got to catch a detour. You might got to make a left, even though it looks like the road is straight.
But you have to continue on to your destination and understand that the map is not the terrain. It is easy to look at a map and know exactly where you want to go. It is much difficult when you're actually on the road to getting those things. And be okay with that. Understand it's not always going to look pretty. There's elevation changes.
There's a whole bunch of things that you may not have expected. But you are going to get there. Or you're going to get something positive out of the situation if you're all into doing the thing that you said you're going to do. And that's really what I want people to do. Because it might change. The thing that I thought I wanted down there might be different when I get there.
But as long as you work as hard as you could to get it, you're going to be thankful for yourself forever. And that's what I want people to understand. You look at yourself differently in the morning when you did everything you could to get something. Like you really genuinely did that. I think a lot of times people are saying like, I worked really hard.
And I was talking to my nephew about this today. I'm like, you keep telling me you want to go division one in basketball. When I call you and ask you, did you put in the work today? The answer is no. Stop telling me that, right? You can't tell me that no more.
It's the ability to respond to adversity. That is it. You can't be great without that.
I'm going to say a name that no one's going to have ever heard of.
His name is Austin Smith. He's at Austin Peay right now. And the reason I say that is because I'm always very honest with parents and players. And I told his dad in seventh grade, I don't know if this is for him. He's struggling to pick up these concepts. I don't know if this is for him. I don't know if he's going to be able to do it. His dad said, okay, let's figure it out.
And he must have told his son. And his ability to respond. A lot of times people could hear that and they would just fold. Oh, this person doesn't believe in me. But I saw him turn it up a notch. And he went on to get a college scholarship. He's been a starter. He's going to have an opportunity to go to the NFL next year. He just worked. And he worked. He heard bad news and he didn't.
get, like, soft. No, he said, I'm going to work harder. Oh, he doesn't know if I can do it, but watch me show him that. Like, that? Yeah. That's not just someone who's going to be a good quarterback. That's going to be somebody who's going to be a good father, who's going to be a good husband, who's going to be good for the community. He just does things the right way.
And that, to me, is why he's one of my most rewarding players to coach.
I would want to say basketball because that's my favorite sport, but I was probably better at baseball than I was at any other sport. I just got too bored. So I would have just been a baseball player.
Man, I mean, I hope that I was able to impart a little bit of wisdom, but a little bit of faith that you can push through and persevere. Far more than you think you can. And oftentimes it is your mind telling you that you can't. All you got to do is put your head down and get to work. But I would ask the friends of yours, just take a peek at the Avery Effect Foundation.
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