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Oklahoma HC Skip Johnson on being selfless teammates and in life.
“And we're trying to teach them in our culture to be selfless, to pick each other up. I mean, it's really what life's about. You think Jesus Christ was selfless? Absolutely. I mean, we live our life for that because of that reason.”
“So I think that's the biggest difference. Man, if you can teach those young men to be selfless in a selfish world, is really big to me. It's really big to me. When nobody cares who gets the credit, you can do amazing things. It's pretty amazing. And we're a reflection of those guys not caring.” — @CoachJohnsonOU
"It has been an honor to be by your side."
Former first lady Michelle Obama paid emotional tribute to her husband, former President Barack Obama, during the dedication ceremony of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago. https://t.co/ssPKeiFS6P
Whenever you see a kid’s lemonade stand, stop for a moment, and if you tip as generously as this gentleman did, you make the memory even sweeter 🥤 Via thad.chino on TT
In 2004, Paul Walker walked into a jewelry store in Santa Barbara like anyone else.
No spotlight. No cameras. No reason for anyone to look twice.
But near the display case, he overheard something that stopped him cold.
A young couple was asking about a ring, quietly, carefully, the way people do when they already know the answer might break their heart. The man was a U.S. veteran, just home from deployment. He'd saved what he could. It wasn't enough. Not for this ring. Not for the woman standing beside him, the one he'd been holding onto through everything.
They thanked the jeweler. Turned to leave.
Paul Walker watched them go.
Then he walked to the counter.
"I'd like to pay for their ring."
Ten thousand dollars. In cash. With one condition: they were never to know his name.
He was gone before the couple made it back to their car.
For years, the veteran and his wife wore that ring with no idea who had given it to them. They built a marriage on it. A life. It took nearly a decade before the truth found its way to them, a quiet thread that finally led back to a man who, by then, the whole world was mourning.
When people later asked Paul Walker about moments like this, he never took the credit willingly. "The point," he once said, "is that it's not about you."
He was right. It never was.
The most powerful things we do are the ones we walk away from without looking back, the ones that quietly change someone's entire world while we go on living our own ordinary day.
There's a couple out there who doesn't know the half of what their life owes to a stranger who just happened to be listening.
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"The point is that it's not about you."
Paul Walker · 1973 – 2013
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Alabama HC Rob Vaughn on college baseball recruiting and the type of player you truly want in your program, no matter the level.
“Our job in college baseball, yes, it's to win games. Yes, it's to develop big leaguers, and yes, it's all the things that we all talk about in recruiting, but more than anything, it's to prepare these kids to be successful for whatever comes next. And man, as good as the talent is in this league, as good as the talent is on this team, not all of them are going to be career big leaguers, you know. And I think what makes Tyler Fay’s journey so awesome, is in a world that is inundated with particularly moms and dads that want your kid to cut and run when when they're not starting every day or they're not playing every day. You see at one end of the equation, you either get the parents are like, ‘Hey man, put your head down to work. We got to get better.’ And you get the parents that feed into the narrative, ‘man, they're not giving you a chance. You got to go. You got to leave.’ the thing about him that makes him so special is regardless of whether Tyler's a 20-year big league or not, that guy's going to be a smashing success in life because when things get hard, he doesn't cut and run. He's not sticking his hand out looking for the next easy way and who's going to pay me more. He’s the I'm going to put my head down. I'm going to work and I'm going to get better.”
Guys like him are the exact reason you believe in what you recruit. You believe in makeup, you better hunt makeup because that guy has that in spades. And that's why he deserves every ounce of what he's getting right now.”
I direct a local daycare center. Our policy is strict: pick-up is at 6:00 PM, and it's a $2 late fee for every minute past that. At 6:45 PM, a young mother burst through the doors, completely out of breath and wearing hospital scrubs. Her late fee was $90. "I am so sorry," she cried, hugging her toddler tightly. "The hospital was severely understaffed, and they mandated I stay for the shift change. I know I have to pay the fee. Just please don't kick us out of the program. She looked like she hadn't slept in a week. I logged into the billing system, highlighted the $90 fee, and hit delete. I went to our kitchen, packed up three leftover servings of the kids' baked ziti dinner, and handed her the warm bag. "System shows you picked him up at 5:59," I told her with a wink. "Take this home so you don't have to cook tonight." Rules are meant to maintain order, but empathy is meant to maintain humanity.
He was told they couldn't find his diploma until his sister, whom he hadn't seen in over a year because she was on military duty, walked out carrying it.