Vincent Zhou
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And it's just incredible to see when I look at the students in ICL, I don't see students. I just see like shadows of my younger self. I see people who John, we already talked about this, like seeing myself in the younger generations. I see kids who are ambitious and motivated and love what they do and are hungry. It's like Steve Jobs' famous speech, stay hungry, stay hungry.
And it's just incredible to see when I look at the students in ICL, I don't see students. I just see like shadows of my younger self. I see people who John, we already talked about this, like seeing myself in the younger generations. I see kids who are ambitious and motivated and love what they do and are hungry. It's like Steve Jobs' famous speech, stay hungry, stay hungry.
It's like they want to, they're curious, they want to learn, they want to take in all the sources of inspiration and information that they can. And that's something that you can't really teach. That's something that you just...
It's like they want to, they're curious, they want to learn, they want to take in all the sources of inspiration and information that they can. And that's something that you can't really teach. That's something that you just...
It's like they want to, they're curious, they want to learn, they want to take in all the sources of inspiration and information that they can. And that's something that you can't really teach. That's something that you just...
have to have you have to embody and that's the sort of character that kirk that you're talking about i think and that carries not just into skating but into everything throughout academics throughout your sport throughout your professional pursuits and i think that's also how we remember the greatest of all time it's not just excellence in one thing, it's legacy.
have to have you have to embody and that's the sort of character that kirk that you're talking about i think and that carries not just into skating but into everything throughout academics throughout your sport throughout your professional pursuits and i think that's also how we remember the greatest of all time it's not just excellence in one thing, it's legacy.
have to have you have to embody and that's the sort of character that kirk that you're talking about i think and that carries not just into skating but into everything throughout academics throughout your sport throughout your professional pursuits and i think that's also how we remember the greatest of all time it's not just excellence in one thing, it's legacy.
Legacy is built through character and mindset and impact in multiple areas. And I think it's just so incredible that ICL has the vision and the right people to do this for kids all over the country. Like I said, really honored to be able to contribute in some way to the vision.
Legacy is built through character and mindset and impact in multiple areas. And I think it's just so incredible that ICL has the vision and the right people to do this for kids all over the country. Like I said, really honored to be able to contribute in some way to the vision.
Legacy is built through character and mindset and impact in multiple areas. And I think it's just so incredible that ICL has the vision and the right people to do this for kids all over the country. Like I said, really honored to be able to contribute in some way to the vision.
Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Some of the hardest times that some of the hardest times of my life were in large part because I had no community to fall back on. When I had knee surgery at 12 years old, I was
Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Some of the hardest times that some of the hardest times of my life were in large part because I had no community to fall back on. When I had knee surgery at 12 years old, I was
Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Some of the hardest times that some of the hardest times of my life were in large part because I had no community to fall back on. When I had knee surgery at 12 years old, I was
isolated in a room with my leg on this stupid movement machine for a couple months just unable to do anything unable to skate unable to walk normally unable to go up and down the stairs without sitting down on my butt and didn't have friends to talk to didn't have family to talk to And it was one of the most lonely experiences of my life.
isolated in a room with my leg on this stupid movement machine for a couple months just unable to do anything unable to skate unable to walk normally unable to go up and down the stairs without sitting down on my butt and didn't have friends to talk to didn't have family to talk to And it was one of the most lonely experiences of my life.
isolated in a room with my leg on this stupid movement machine for a couple months just unable to do anything unable to skate unable to walk normally unable to go up and down the stairs without sitting down on my butt and didn't have friends to talk to didn't have family to talk to And it was one of the most lonely experiences of my life.
And I only wish that I had a community like ICL students do. And that's, again, why I said, I think it's so incredible that you got people with the right vision and the ability to make this happen for those kids. It's invaluable to them. It's invaluable to them. And again, so much respect for, to you, Kirk, for building this and making
And I only wish that I had a community like ICL students do. And that's, again, why I said, I think it's so incredible that you got people with the right vision and the ability to make this happen for those kids. It's invaluable to them. It's invaluable to them. And again, so much respect for, to you, Kirk, for building this and making
And I only wish that I had a community like ICL students do. And that's, again, why I said, I think it's so incredible that you got people with the right vision and the ability to make this happen for those kids. It's invaluable to them. It's invaluable to them. And again, so much respect for, to you, Kirk, for building this and making