Tim Tebow

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The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · 540. Former NFL Player on Masculinity | Tim Tebow · 21 Apr 2025 podcast

And I was malnourished, but I did make up for it pretty quickly. How old was your mom when you were born? Oh my goodness. It's probably closer to 40. No, no, no. Probably a little bit younger than that, but she wasn't older. I was a baby of five, so probably around 35 maybe. Okay, okay.

And I think that was very impactful for me, not just for that time as a baby, but then growing up, my parents would say to me almost every night, Timmy up. we want you to know God spared you for a reason. You were a miracle baby, and God's got a special plan for your life. Do you know what happens when you hear that over and over and over again? You start to believe it.

That you're not here by happenstance, that you're not here by accident, that you're here on purpose, for a purpose, with a purpose.

Yes. And I've also fell in love with sports at a very early age. My whole family, insanely competitive. Like, you would love them. They're awesome people. Like, my parents are two of my biggest heroes. But like, if we all... sat down and played like Monopoly or Risk, you would think we hate each other. We're so competitive. But it's just our whole family's that way.

And when we moved back from the States, we moved right here to Jacksonville, Florida. And they were like, we got to sign him up for sports. So they signed me up for T-ball at Normandy Baseball Park. And I was so excited. I show up to the first game on the White Sox and number 35, just like my favorite player, Frank Thomas.

And Coach Langley gathers us together before we take the field for the first inning. He says, okay, guys, Now it doesn't matter whether you win or lose. It's only about having fun. I gotta be honest, we've only been in America for a little bit. And I'm thinking, is this what America is about? Is this sucks? And I say, you ain't kinda sure. And I say, no coach, you're wrong.

It's only about winning. That's when you have fun.

You're not going to pick the worst ones.

You want to win.

That's right. Even when they say don't keep score, every kid still keeps score in their head. Yeah. Like...

Agreed. And I think one of the interesting things that I believe the story touches on is then he doesn't understand me. Let's the rest of the kids go to their places. And he says, well, you wait right here. And he walks down the first baseline to where my dad is. And he says, Mr. Tebow, you come in here. My dad walks down and he said, Mr. Tebow, I think we have a problem with your son.

And he said, oh, what's the problem? And he said, he's overly competitive. Right, so that was your first day. That's my first day. Oh, great. And so my dad comes walking around the chain link fence, you know, and I'm thinking, oh, no, like, I just screwed up. I'm about to get in trouble. Yeah. And I look at my dad and I see he's got a belt on. Yeah.

And I'm like, oh, no, I'm about to get a spanking on first base.

This is not a good day. Like, to me, it's a World Series Super Bowl all mixed into one.

He opens the chain link fence. He comes walking over. He's got, my dad, especially then was a pretty stern looking, intimidating looking guy. And he walks over, he leans over and he looks me in the eye and he says, Timmy, it's okay. He just doesn't understand. Oh boy. He doesn't get it. And I was like, yes, that's good.

Yes. But I want to add to that because I think it makes a powerful point. So that game we play and ultimately, I mean, we have... teammates that are in the outfield looking for four leaf clovers and half the kids just care about what color snow cone they get after the game. And they find out I'm a decent athlete.

They didn't know because we were overseas, but they find out I'm decent at the game and I did pretty good. But my parents also found out how easy it was for me to become extremely arrogant and proud.

because that's on a saturday and the first thing i want to do after the first game is tell everybody how i did hey guess what i had this many hits i had this many home runs i made this many plays and i wanted to tell everybody and so the first thing my parents did was instill a rule for me and my siblings but specifically really for me yeah that before we were allowed to play a sporting activity we would have to memorize scripture verses but specifically on humility and um and

I'm so grateful, even though I couldn't understand a lot of them at the time or maybe what they all meant. And I'm still maybe don't always understand what they mean. But they started to instill that, not just about the balance of competition, but no, be competitive, go win. Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might. But... It's not everything.

And I remember the first verse I had to memorize, the greatest among you will be a servant. Whoever exalts himself will be humbled. Whoever humbles himself will be exalted. So they were teaching me to go compete or allowing me to go compete and supporting me. But then they would say, winning at this isn't everything. And then try to use that as an example. Yeah.

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