TJAuthorofToughness

Author of, “Toughness: Dominating your Life All Day Every Day #HeatNation🏆🏆🏆 #GoHogs 🏆

[CooperBaggs 💰🍞 @edgaralandough]

Never leave your bed in the morning without saying these three prayers.

The third one could change your entire day.

Prayer #1: The Prayer of Surrender
Lord, before this day even begins, I place everything into Your hands.
Every conversation, every decision, every path I will walk today I don’t want to walk it alone. Go before me, Father.

Prayer #2: The Prayer of Protection
My God, guard my mind today. Remove from me every thought that does not come from You.

[Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @PeterHotez]

1/n Watching Kennedy make one false statement after another on @CNNSOTU @DanaBashCNN
1. The U.S. neither had the highest number of Covid deaths (that was India by 4X) nor the highest death rate.
2. The U.S. did have 200,000-300,000 unnecessary deaths among people who refused Covid vaccines
3. It was indeed the governors who issued stay at home orders after ICUs across the country were overwhelmed with sick and dying patients

[The HEAT Realm @WadexFlash]

Shane Battier says Pat Riley had the Heat LOCKED IN for the opening night game vs Dallas on Christmas:

“When I joined the Heat in 2012, that team was galvanized by losing in a very public way to the Dallas Mavericks. I’ll never forget we were playing Dallas on opening day…Pat Riley sat us down on the floor and he said ‘just remember these guys (Mavs) have your championship, they drank your champagne, they pissed in your streets, they took your women home, that should’ve been you — never forget that’ and the edge of that team before that game — I never felt a group of men that angry and pissed off…I looked around I’m like ‘oh yeah we’re winning’ we go out and smack Dallas — the rest is history.”

(via @GlueGuys_Pod)

[Josh Chambers @JoshChambers]

JJ Redick's offseason training was insanely rigorous and detailed:

“If you want to have a full bucket of water, that’s the goal in life. You want a full bucket. But all you can do is add one drop at a time, so add as many drops as you can."

"Every time you get in a cold tub. Every time you lift weights. Every time you have an hour-long shooting workout. Every time I did my pregame shooting workout. Every time I did my post-shootaround shooting workout. It’s all drops in a bucket."

"My offseasons were harder than the season. That’s a fact. That’s a big reason I retired, because I couldn’t do another offseason."

"My offseasons were six days a week, with two or three workouts a day. Saturdays were off. Every Sunday during the offseason, for the last 13 years of my career, I made exactly 342 shots."

"Seven spots on the floor. Twenty spot-up twos. Twenty spot-up threes. Three-dribble pull-ups going right. Three-dribble pull-ups going left. Plus 20 free throws. That’s 342."

"I started cold tubbing, and they wanted me to stay in for 12 minutes. Then I started thinking, ‘If I start my timer a little too early, I’m not going to get the full 12 minutes. I don’t want to cheat myself.’ So I started cold tubbing for 12 minutes and 25 seconds, just to give myself some wiggle room.

"Everything in my routine was structured. On a normal game day, I knew exactly what I was going to eat for breakfast. I knew exactly when I was going to get to the gym. I knew exactly how many minutes I was going to spend in the hot tub before I got on the training table.

"Then I got my activation work in the weight room. Then I did my pre-shootaround shooting. Then my post-shootaround shooting. Then my cold tub. I knew exactly what I was going to eat for lunch.

"I knew exactly when I was going to nap. I had my naps timed out."

"By the end of my career, if I said, ‘I need to fall asleep at 1:05 and wake up at 3:30,’ I could do it like that."

"Especially once my kids were born, I didn’t take vacations. I would build three- or four-day breaks into the offseason just to give myself some clarity and relieve some of that pressure."

"But my offseasons started the next Monday. If the season ended Saturday, I was in the gym Monday."

"I loved the process. I loved everything that went into it.”

[Stefan Moore ★ @2StefanMoore]

In the late ’90s in a hushed San Francisco Children’s hospital, a nurse freezes mid step in the hallway, fighting tears. From inside one of the rooms comes the sound of a little boy, terminally ill, laughing so hard he can barely breathe. She peeks in. There’s Robin Williams, drowning in oversized scrubs, a red clown nose on his face, stethoscope swinging like a jump rope, doing every voice from every cartoon the kid has ever loved. No cameras. No manager hovering. Just Robin, turning a sterile room into pure magic for one small human who’s running out of tomorrows.

Fast forward to 2003. Same quiet mission in a different city, a ten year old with leukemia has days, maybe hours, left. His dad has been a rock, no tears, not once, because his boy needs him strong. Robin shows up unannounced. Within minutes he’s conducting an invisible orchestra made of squeaky IV poles, belting an operatic love song to the heart monitor beeps. The dad finally cracks but he’s not crying from pain, he’s crying because, for the first time in months, he’s laughing too.

Robin never told a soul about these visits. Not Conan, not Billy Crystal, not the press. When grateful families tried to shout his kindness from the rooftops, he gently shut it down. “That moment was theirs,” he’d say. “Not mine to talk about.”

One night in Denver, after a sold out show, he drove an hour each way just to meet a teenage girl whose favorite movie was Aladdin. She knew every Genie line by heart. When Robin burst in & launched into that wild blue whirlwind of a voice, “Ten thousand years will give you such a crick in the neck!” her whole face caught fire with joy. Her mom said later he stayed way past visiting hours, sitting on the edge of the bed, trading stories like old friends, listening more than he performed.

Think about what that took. Walking into rooms thick with grief. No script, no director yelling “cut,” no second take. Just a kid who might not wake up tomorrow, parents holding their breath & Robin choosing, every single time to step into the fire & pull out light.

He’d sit on the floor eating melted ice pops, hold tiny hands, let kids yank his beard & when it was over, he’d sit alone in his rental car for a long time. Sometimes sobbing. Sometimes just staring at the dashboard until he could drive again.

Nurses from Seattle to Miami knew the deal. If Robin was in town doing stand-up, a call might come. “Tell no one,” he’d say. “Especially not me if it ever leaks.”

He didn’t save lives in the medical sense but handed out something almost as rare. Ten minutes, twenty minutes, an hour where a dying Child forgot they were dying. Where a parent remembered their kid was still a kid. Where laughter, impossible, ridiculous, defiant laughter, won a round against the darkest opponent there is.

That was Robin’s medicine. Not a cure. Just a reminder, fierce & tender, that even when the world is whispering “let go,” there’s still room to feel wildly, beautifully alive & maybe, just maybe, that’s the most healing thing of all. ❤️

[Al Butler @ALaboutSports]

I realize the talk is all LeBron right now, but I highly encourage Heat fans to take a breath and dig into @MirinFader’s ‘Giannis.’

So many great stories about his rise and mentality. Seems like a perfect match for Riley and Spoelstra.

[Coach Dan Casey @CoachDanCasey]

If you want to understand the level of detail required to Run the Football effectively in the NFL, watch the next 131 seconds from Sean McVay.

[TJAuthorofToughness @coaching_tj]

@LeBatardShow @TheHoopCentral @TheHeatCentral Just watched interview. Such a poised and wise man.

[Joel Osteen @JoelOsteen]

When the enemy attacks, the Shepherd is there. When evil comes, the Shepherd shows up. When trouble catches you off guard, that’s okay; the Shepherd is looking out for you. You can live in peace. You can stay at rest.

[TJAuthorofToughness @coaching_tj]

@5ReasonsSports @coachgeo_ Superb article

[Zachary Weinberger @ZachWeinberger]

Pat Riley spoke to the media on the side, talked about roster construction, what’s more to do with the roster, Giannis playing 36 games last season, me asking him about the relief of getting Giannis, and more: #Heat

[The HEAT Realm @WadexFlash]

Giannis Antetokounmpo on what he felt when he was in Pat Riley’s office👀

“I remember what I felt — I felt aura, this overwhelming feeling of history, toughness, discipline — I just felt overwhelmed by his office.”

(via @Brendan_Tobin YT)

[Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @PeterHotez]

Aortic dissection, that’s a rough break. I’ve lost several colleagues to this, including two of my former professors. The Senator was 71, that’s about when this happens. I’m 68. The key is to take care of your cardiovascular health, control your hypertension, statin for cholesterol. My view: regular visits to your healthcare provider make the difference. It’s a pain, these days a hassle to schedule and reschedule, and takes away from all the things you want to do, but make the time, it’s worth the investment. Makes the difference between never meeting your grandchildren vs seeing them graduate university.

[DepressedBergman @DannyDrinksWine]

Patrick Swayze on how to handle Pain in life:

"With all the skydiving, surfing, chase scenes, and fight scenes, 'Point Break' (1991) was one of the most fun movies I’ve ever worked on. It was also one of the most painful, as I cracked my left wrist and a couple of ribs, and tore up my shoulder and elbow. The worst injury didn’t come while we were shooting, though. It came when I was bored out of my mind back at the trailers.

I’d been hanging around a parking lot all day, waiting to be called to shoot a scene. I walked over to the prop truck and said, “Hey, you guys got a skateboard?”

“Sure,” said one of the guys, and grabbed one from the back. “Here you go,” he said. “Don’t ki|| yourself.” I just laughed and said thanks, and then hopped on the board. It shot out from under me, and I fell straight down onto my elbow, which drove my arm bone right up into my shoulder, tearing tendons and my rotator cuff. I was dizzy with pain, but knew that if I let anyone know I was hurt, there would be repercussions with the movie’s insurers. So I just acted as if everything was okay.

Whether I’m dancing, playing sports, acting, or anything else, I try never to allow pain to derail me. Pain is a constant companion when you make action movies. It’s also just a part of living with a serious knee injury. But I learned how to put the pain elsewhere, how to compartmentalize what was happening in my body.

Pain is nothing more than a sensation, and you can choose to give in to it, or choose to control it. It’s how I managed to sustain my career for this long, and even how I’ve managed to fight cancer. Pain, like fear, can even be your friend if you let it. It sharpens your focus, and lets you know you’re alive."

("The Time of My Life", Patrick Swayze & Lisa Niemi, 2009)

P.S: On this day, 35 years ago, "Point Break" (1991) was released in the USA and Canada.

[🐻Vanzu Native 🐻 @NaijaPrinc3]

Talk to em! Tobin!!!

[The Real Jon Doe @realentertainme]

@haLfresco @GregSylvander So where did the welt come from

[Bammy Pacquiao🇵🇭🇺🇸 @haLfresco]

@GregSylvander Someone saw it