Ric Elias
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Podcast Appearances
So this is a team first and all of that.
And we've extrapolated a lot of this.
And we signed a big free agent.
I think it was two or three days later, we fired him because he was a jerk.
Culture is what you tolerate.
It's not what you preach.
Our best player, we suspended and never told anybody because he was not behaving in a way that was culture-fest.
He begged to come back.
He's the most amazing teammate.
This guy says I've never been part of a team.
These kids get treated like whatever.
So great teams, great teams in anything in life.
It is team first because most places are player first.
Exceptional teams that where they exceed their expectations where we are, we are like the eighth best team, not the second or first best team is when there's teammates first.
These guys, the love that they feel for each other is beautiful.
And the great thing about teams, back to community, is like once you are part of an experience like that, the team will end, you will be teammates for life.
And that to me is the beautiful part of all of this.
Regardless how the story ends, and this may have been our lucky season, we may never make it again.
It does not matter.
No one, there's a saying in Spanish, no me puede quitar lo bailao, nadie me quita lo bailao, que quiere decir you can never take away the songs I've danced.