Ron White

He knows nothing about memorizing a deck of cards.

But what Navy SEALs do know is they do know how to be calm under pressure.

They know how to believe in themselves.

They don't get ruffled.

They know how to structure their training so they don't just win, they dominate.

So I hired this guy, T.C.

Cummings.

And he structured my training like a Navy SEAL would structure training, you know, for a memory tournament, not for... But, you know, there was a Norm... I believe it was a Norman Schwarzkopf quote, and TC would say it to me a lot.

The more you sweat in times of peace, the less you bleed in times of war.

So he would, he said, Ron, how are your competitors training for this memory tournament?

I said, oh, well, you know, they've got, they're telling their kids to be quiet, you know, in the next room and they're turning off the radio and they're training in complete silence.

He said, that's not how a Navy SEAL trains.

We don't train in perfect conditions.

I said, TC, what do you want?

Are you going to shoot off a gun over my head while I'm memorizing a deck of cards?

What are you going to do?

He said, you need to make your training perfect.

And this was him talking to me, and I'm sure you would feel this as well.

I don't know anything about SEAL training, but he said, Ron, we make our training so tough that sometimes it's tougher than the actual war.

And when we get to war, we don't just win, we dominate.