Ron White

He said, that's what you need to do.

He said, you don't want to train in perfect conditions.

He said, I want you to get...

It was the wintertime.

He said, I want you to get plastic playing cards.

I want you to get snorkel gear and get a wetsuit, because it's 30 degrees outside, and you're going to train underwater.

I'm like, what?

I'm going to train for a memory tournament underwater?

So I'm at the apartment swimming pool.

I got these goggles on.

I guarantee you, I'm the only nerd training for this tournament in a swimming pool.

And the water's seeping into my goggles.

You know, I'm trying to breathe.

I'm floating around.

I got these plastic playing cards, and I'm memorizing underwater.

But what it really helped me do was learn how to focus when all these distractions were going on.

And that's what he wanted.

And then I would get out of the pool and I would reassemble the deck of cards.

I got to the point where I could memorize a deck of cards underwater faster than anybody in the United States could do above water at a tournament.

I had a trip to Australia during that time, so I didn't have to wear snorkel gear.