Tim Grover
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256 appearances
6 recordings
4 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 24 Jun
Tim Grover’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Prove it to yourself. We have so many other individuals that are trying to prove it to everybody else. Don't worry about proving it to everybody else. Prove it to yourself.
You just gave an example. Yeah. You're one of your closest friends.
Man, that's a terrible name. That's a terrible name. All right. Prove yourself right. Yeah. Don't prove him wrong. Right. Say, okay, I'm going to go do this for me, whether you like it or not. Right. And the best validation is when they come back to you and say, I was wrong. That's the best validation.
You know? Yes. Normalcy. Right, right. Whatever it would have been. Yeah. Whatever it would have been.
It's perfect. You look at when Kobe, his first playoff series, How old was he in his first one? It was early in his career.
I'm talking about before he won the finals.
In the playoffs. I think he had this. No Shaq. Pre-Shaq. Yeah. He had this horrible game against, I think it might have been the Utah Jazz. I can't remember. But he shot like four or five straight air balls. I remember that. Yeah. Four or five straight air balls. All right. Now, he could have came back next year and said, I got to prove everybody that's a man. You're too young. Why did you take?
No, it was just like, you know what? That's on me. I have to I have to own that. I have to own that moment. I owned that moment. Now, I got to prove to myself. I can overcome this because now everybody else is doubting me. But I can't doubt myself. I can't doubt myself. And everybody's had that moment. Everybody told MJ, don't go to North Carolina. You'll never play. You'll never play.
And one of the stories I share with individuals is Dean Smith, who was a coach at the time, he introduced... Michael, he said, Michael, I want you to meet, I think I got the name right. I'm pretty sure. He thinks I want you to meet Buzz Peterson. Buzz Peterson was the number one recruited player in the nation. To go to North Carolina? To go, yeah, like the number one anywhere.
He was the number one player in the nation. And Michael goes to Dean and says, how could he be number one? He ain't never played me. He said, how Dean saw something, he saw that competitive nature in MJ. And he wanted to see, now, if I tell him that, is that kid gonna start doubting himself? Because everybody else has already told him, you shouldn't be here. You shouldn't be here.
And Michael went out and he said, I don't need to prove to coach. I don't need to prove to Buzz. I need to prove to myself that I belong here. Did they end up competing? Didn't they do one-on-one? Yeah, it ended up, yeah, and it didn't turn out well. For the other guy? Yeah, for the other guy, yeah. And Coach Smith made them roommates. Oh, wow, that's hilarious.
Yes, I did.
And it was the last point I ever scored. Really? Yes. What was that like? Where was the moment? It was during... Well, see, it was kind of like a setup. It was a setup. So it was... Michael and I were kind of messing around. We had just finished...
grueling leg workout he's like can't even walk grueling leg workout so you get him when he's at his lowest moment oh yeah and he's up there and he's you know we go up there to get loosened loosen up a little bit and he's just like he's shooting goes man i can't even i can't even feel i can't even feel my i can't even feel my legs i said i got a great idea to kind of loosen you up a little bit i said let's play a little one-on-one he thinks i'm just yeah he goes right past me but i just go right around on that high score needs oh
oh big mistake big mistake you saw lily the lactic acid just flush out of his body in that second and he goes all right That was the last point? That was the last time I touched the ball. Really? He wouldn't even let you play with him anymore. I couldn't get the ball back. I couldn't get the ball back. I would get the ball back after he scored in the basket and I'd pass it back to him.
I couldn't get around him. When you're a professional at something, people don't realize how good those individuals are. I love the people that sit on the sidelines and all this other stuff, and they doubt. They doubt how talented those individuals are. And I always tell them in any sport, I say, listen, you give me who you think are the five worst. In the league, yeah. In the league.
Pick, I don't care who that, any of them. They will dominate. Anyone. You get your top five, they will literally dominate. Doubt can become an addiction. Just like anything else. Just like winning. Yes. So what do people say the first thing when you become an addict? You gotta talk about it. You gotta admit it.
Get it out. Because what I might think you're doubting may be completely different than something that you're doubting. I may see something and you're like, no, that's not it. Well, okay, let's talk about this a little more. Explain to me what's going on here. What created that doubt? What created that doubt? And we know after seven years,
those it had finally gotten to the point where it was just like and no one talked to him because he you know kobe wasn't going to talk to anybody about it you know he's never going to talk to the media about it no they should talk to some individual that's like hey okay listen I understand. I'm as obsessed and as crazy as you are because that's why you hired me. That's why you hired me.
I understand the winning mentality. I understand what's going on in under here. I understand the skeletons. I understand the demons. I get those things. Mine aren't the same as yours, but I have them. We all have them, and very few can admit them. So when you start admitting doubt and you start to be able to talk about it,
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