Ron White
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I've been in Afghanistan.
I haven't been training.
If there's any time to lose, this is the time that I have a built-in excuse to lose.
Yes, sir.
So I go in, and I compete, and I come in fourth place out of like 50 people.
And I'm like, wow, I didn't even train for this, and I came in fourth place.
I said, I'm going to win this thing.
I am going to win.
So I began training diligently for the 2009 USA Memory Championship.
And I got a former U.S.
champion, David Thomas, to give me some ideas and strategies, and he really helped me out a lot.
But my biggest coach, and most people can't even understand this.
You might understand this.
My biggest coach for the USA Memory Championship was not a memory guy.
It was a United States Navy SEAL, former SEAL.
His name was T.C.
Cummings.
He served in the 90s.
And people all the time are like, Ron, why in the world would you hire a United States Navy SEAL to train for a memory tournament?
What in the world do they know about memorizing a deck of cards?