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Wally Green

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258 total appearances

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Mick Unplugged
Wally Green | Overcoming Adversity: Wally Green on Life, Ping Pong, and Pickleball

I was free from, you know, trying to be the best of the best. Right. And I got really, really good. Yeah. And it was a very interesting journey. And, you know, the media went crazy with it because technically I shouldn't even be playing the sport. More or less, be good at it.

Mick Unplugged
Wally Green | Overcoming Adversity: Wally Green on Life, Ping Pong, and Pickleball

Yeah, for sure. For sure, for sure, for sure.

Mick Unplugged
Wally Green | Overcoming Adversity: Wally Green on Life, Ping Pong, and Pickleball

Yeah, for sure. For sure, for sure, for sure.

Mick Unplugged
Wally Green | Overcoming Adversity: Wally Green on Life, Ping Pong, and Pickleball

Yeah, for sure. For sure, for sure, for sure.

Mick Unplugged
Wally Green | Overcoming Adversity: Wally Green on Life, Ping Pong, and Pickleball

Yes, a lot of it is. Yeah. So it's 90 percent mental. Sure.

Mick Unplugged
Wally Green | Overcoming Adversity: Wally Green on Life, Ping Pong, and Pickleball

Yes, a lot of it is. Yeah. So it's 90 percent mental. Sure.

Mick Unplugged
Wally Green | Overcoming Adversity: Wally Green on Life, Ping Pong, and Pickleball

Yes, a lot of it is. Yeah. So it's 90 percent mental. Sure.

Mick Unplugged
Wally Green | Overcoming Adversity: Wally Green on Life, Ping Pong, and Pickleball

Yeah, oh man, I get chills from this question. It's always a very deep question. So I grew up with really severe domestic violence. My mom used to get beat up all the time, a chill punch in the face. My stepfather used to mentally abuse me, used to beat me too, but I got a lot of mental abuse.

Mick Unplugged
Wally Green | Overcoming Adversity: Wally Green on Life, Ping Pong, and Pickleball

Yeah, oh man, I get chills from this question. It's always a very deep question. So I grew up with really severe domestic violence. My mom used to get beat up all the time, a chill punch in the face. My stepfather used to mentally abuse me, used to beat me too, but I got a lot of mental abuse.

Mick Unplugged
Wally Green | Overcoming Adversity: Wally Green on Life, Ping Pong, and Pickleball

Yeah, oh man, I get chills from this question. It's always a very deep question. So I grew up with really severe domestic violence. My mom used to get beat up all the time, a chill punch in the face. My stepfather used to mentally abuse me, used to beat me too, but I got a lot of mental abuse.

Mick Unplugged
Wally Green | Overcoming Adversity: Wally Green on Life, Ping Pong, and Pickleball

And the kind of mental abuse was my stepfather always saying that you'll never be successful, you'll be dead. You'll be in jail. You'll be a failure the rest of your life. I would come home from school. And we're talking about as a kid, as like junior high school student. I would come home from school. Maybe I'm in a good mood, which is rare. And my stepfather would say, oh, how was your day?

Mick Unplugged
Wally Green | Overcoming Adversity: Wally Green on Life, Ping Pong, and Pickleball

And the kind of mental abuse was my stepfather always saying that you'll never be successful, you'll be dead. You'll be in jail. You'll be a failure the rest of your life. I would come home from school. And we're talking about as a kid, as like junior high school student. I would come home from school. Maybe I'm in a good mood, which is rare. And my stepfather would say, oh, how was your day?

Mick Unplugged
Wally Green | Overcoming Adversity: Wally Green on Life, Ping Pong, and Pickleball

And the kind of mental abuse was my stepfather always saying that you'll never be successful, you'll be dead. You'll be in jail. You'll be a failure the rest of your life. I would come home from school. And we're talking about as a kid, as like junior high school student. I would come home from school. Maybe I'm in a good mood, which is rare. And my stepfather would say, oh, how was your day?

Mick Unplugged
Wally Green | Overcoming Adversity: Wally Green on Life, Ping Pong, and Pickleball

And I would say, oh, it was good. And he would say, oh, it doesn't really matter how it was because you're going to be a failure anyway. So he would systematically try to make me feel less dead. The same time being on my mom. And, you know, as a kid, You know, you always want to protect your mom. Like, I've been with... My stepfather has been there since I was one.

Mick Unplugged
Wally Green | Overcoming Adversity: Wally Green on Life, Ping Pong, and Pickleball

And I would say, oh, it was good. And he would say, oh, it doesn't really matter how it was because you're going to be a failure anyway. So he would systematically try to make me feel less dead. The same time being on my mom. And, you know, as a kid, You know, you always want to protect your mom. Like, I've been with... My stepfather has been there since I was one.

Mick Unplugged
Wally Green | Overcoming Adversity: Wally Green on Life, Ping Pong, and Pickleball

And I would say, oh, it was good. And he would say, oh, it doesn't really matter how it was because you're going to be a failure anyway. So he would systematically try to make me feel less dead. The same time being on my mom. And, you know, as a kid, You know, you always want to protect your mom. Like, I've been with... My stepfather has been there since I was one.

Mick Unplugged
Wally Green | Overcoming Adversity: Wally Green on Life, Ping Pong, and Pickleball

Because I don't remember my mom and my dad together. But my stepfather and my mom have been together since I was, like, one. So this abuse started since I was one. And as a kid, you always want to protect your mom. You know, you... Just think about this every day.

Mick Unplugged
Wally Green | Overcoming Adversity: Wally Green on Life, Ping Pong, and Pickleball

Because I don't remember my mom and my dad together. But my stepfather and my mom have been together since I was, like, one. So this abuse started since I was one. And as a kid, you always want to protect your mom. You know, you... Just think about this every day.

Mick Unplugged
Wally Green | Overcoming Adversity: Wally Green on Life, Ping Pong, and Pickleball

Because I don't remember my mom and my dad together. But my stepfather and my mom have been together since I was, like, one. So this abuse started since I was one. And as a kid, you always want to protect your mom. You know, you... Just think about this every day.

Mick Unplugged
Wally Green | Overcoming Adversity: Wally Green on Life, Ping Pong, and Pickleball

When I was like, I don't know, like seven or eight, I was thinking of how I could put boric acid into his capsules of the pills that he took. Wow. Right. Because like I said, I watched my mom get hit all the time. Right. And, you know, it wasn't until the pandemic came where I learned about narcissism and learned what it was.