Josh Chambers
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Sean McDermott reveals after he was fired by the the Bills, he went back to people inside the organization and asked them to tell him the truths during his tenure that never made it to the top of the food chain so he could learn and grow “When you’re a head coach or a leader of any sort, you don’t always get this space to just live life and to reflect. I’ve been reflecting on my journey in Buffalo. The good things, the things I’d like to do differently in the next go-around.” “Doing some other types of reflection as well, which is asking other people and sort of a blind-spot type of exercise. People in the building in Buffalo who I respect. Because sometimes as a head coach, not everything gets to the top of the food chain. Every story. Every truth. So just going back and probing because, I want to know. I want to know what I don’t know.” “It hit me between the eyes. Hey, sharing more of myself. Sharing more of who Sean really is. From a personal level, dropping my guard a little bit and really just showing them my true self as a person. I think that just comes from getting so focused on the job and the task at hand.”
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Jim Harbaugh says he keeps his pen out around Mike McDaniel at all times because he expects to learn something at any moment “He’s so intelligent. Book smart, football smart, all the smart, street smart, you name it. People ask me, ‘Well, how smart are they, Coach?’” “And I go, ‘I don’t know. They’re so smart that I don’t know how smart they are.’ What’s it like being around Mike? He’s just a great guy. He’s hilarious. He’s funny. The meetings that he has, I’ve got my pen out.” “I’m writing things down because there’s like a nugget of gold that comes out of every one of those interactions, whether him and I are talking on the field or in his office or mine or in the meetings.” “I mean, it’s two, three, four a day. I like to listen to this guy talk. I like what he’s saying. He’s got the keys to the offense, and we’re all behind him.”
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Mike Tomlin says stepping away from coaching made him realize how much leading an NFL organization had quietly cost him, and reveals he hasn't been to a family reunion since 1997 “I’ve enjoyed 2026, man. The free time, had an opportunity to really just focus on my wellness, getting into shape and things of that nature.” “Man, when you lead a football team and football organization, sometimes you put yourself last. So it’s been good to kind of focus on some things like that and really just have time to be present with my family and friends.” “I went to a family reunion a couple weeks ago. I hadn’t been to a family reunion since 1997. The family reunion is always the third week in July. Where have I been all of my adult life the third week in July? In a football camp. My family was laughing that I was there.”
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AJ Brown says the biggest lesson he’s learned from winning and losing a Super Bowl is to stop obsessing over getting back to one because you can’t control that outcome anyway, so the only useful response is to be present, max out your effort, get better daily and let the chips fall where they may “I have empathy for the guys because I understand how it feels. It’s not a good feeling. But ultimately it just comes down to your daily process each and every day.” “Not looking so far ahead. One game at a time. Be present each and every day and just go to work. Because you can’t control the outcome anyway.” “You can control your effort. And leave it at that. Let the chips fall where they may. Our job is to show up each and every day and just try to get better.”
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Steph Curry says NBA players making $70,000,000 can still be underpaid, because they’re prohibited from earning equity in the teams whose value they help create “I think because the way the CBA is structured right now, we can’t participate in equity. And that’s a big deal because it is a partnership with ownership. It’s a partnership with the league.” “We’re on the short term of that revenue. Those numbers sound crazy, but what the league is doing from whatever era you want to compare it to now is probably 10x that.” “The idea that we can’t participate in equity while we’re playing is part of why I would say, yes, we are underpaid. Because you want to be able to participate in that rise.” “I know we’re blessed to be in a position where we’re playing basketball for a living and these are the type of checks that people are earning.” “But hopefully sooner than later those rules change a little bit so players can participate more in the upside of team equity, league valuations and all that type stuff. Just because I think we deserve it.”
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Von Miller reveals after Texas A&M coach Mike Sherman suspended him, he packed everything he owned into his truck and started driving to Florida to transfer, when he called his he dad told him not to quit, so he turned around and led the nation with 17.5 sacks the next season “I had everything I owned in this blanket, and I went to my car. I threw it in the back and I’m driving home. I called my daddy. I’m like, ‘Daddy, man, I’m leaving. Coach Sherman kicked me off the team. I ain’t coming back until I do this and that.’” “I’m thinking my dad is going, ‘All right, we’re going to find something else.’ He said, ‘Pull that truck over, turn around, and go back to school. You’re not quitting.’” “I was like, ‘That was not the answer I was looking for.’ He was like, ‘You’re not just about to quit when it gets hard. You’re going to turn that truck back around. You’re going to go back to school and you’re going to fix it.’” “I had tears going down my face. I was like, ‘Man, this is going to be so hard to fix all of this.’ I turned around. We had a meeting. Coach Sherman told my dad the exact same thing that he told me, and my dad agreed with Coach Sherman.” “There was nowhere I could go. I just had to face the music. I had to face the truth. That spring was a hard one, but I got my grades up. I made it to all my classes. I went through the checklist of everything Coach Sherman wanted me to do.” “That following year, my junior year, was the best year that I had up until that day. I led the nation in sacks. I had 17 and a half sacks. My life had totally changed. That was all a testament to running straight through the storm. The shortest way through the storm is straight. I put my head down and I worked, and my life totally changed that offseason.”
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Jalen Brunson says 30 intentional minutes can beat 2 hours in the gym, and explains the NBA was never his goal because he was consumed with just trying to get a little bit better everyday “People say, ‘Oh, I was in the gym for two hours today.’ Like, okay, what did you do in the gym?’ You can get a much more difficult and better workout in 30 to 40 minutes versus just being in the gym BS’ing for two hours.” “While it was about consistency, it was about being precise. There was intent to everything you did. It was definitely commitment. I loved going out and working out. I loved going and playing pickup.” “When we lived in Virginia, we lived in Charlottesville Virginia when my dad worked at UVA. I would go play at the rec center with college kids. We would play pickup, I’m playing against older people and I’m playing well. I’m not thinking, I’m going to the NBA. The NBA was never talked about. No. I’m just trying to get better. It was all about going to college.” “There were baby steps. Yes there were long term goals, but I’m focused on the short term goals. Baby steps, one step at a time. People just want to jump straight there, and they get disappointed because they didn’t enjoy their journey. I enjoyed every step of my journey. Enjoy your steps.”
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Nick Chubb explains how one of the hardest parts of becoming successful is that he literally can't recreate the hunger he had when he was broke and working out three times a day “I remember how hungry I was as a high school kid, and it’s so hard for me to tap into that mindset again. I can’t be that hungry kid that worked out three times a day mentally. I just can’t, because I have a lot of things now. I’m successful.” “That’s the closest thing I can do to feel like I’m still that high school kid, go back to my hometown with Mikey Worthington, in the same weight room when I had nothing. That’s the same place I had nothing in. It’s the same coach who was there who believed in me as a young kid.” “To go back and just feel all that again, it works magic for me. All my success comes from me going home in the middle of Cedartown, where there’s nothing around, and just grinding for six months straight.” “On leg day, you just say put it all on the bar. If I think about it, I don’t really have a max. I just stop at some point. “Worthington, man, he pushes me. Sometimes I don’t feel like doing all that weight. He’ll say, ‘Shit, when you was in high school, you would’ve did it.’ He just takes me back to me being hungry.”
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Lamar Jackson says he watched friends chase fast money while he was playing the long game and counting how many years it would take him to reach the NFL “I’m seeing my friends who I was growing up with who I was playing football with… Just throw their life away for fast money and stuff like that. They used to tell me ‘Oh, you talk too much’. Because I used to always speak about football and positivity stuff. They didn’t want to hear that.” “Now it’s like… They’d rather hear it now because I’m Lamar Jackson. But I’ve been speaking about it. Everybody just wasn’t listening. I was already seeing what was going on. I wish we could go back in time and y’all could see what I was seeing. Because I always looked at life like, I counted years.” “Like I would think… ‘How many years does it take to get to the league?’ They’re saying… ‘You do three years in college.’ I said… ‘I’m doing three years.’ I’m not doing four. I’m not trying to go fifth year. I’m doing three years because I’m going to make sure my family is good.” “If you’re coming from a place like where I come from, don’t try to be like the guys around you. Don’t look up to the stuff that looks like it’s fun… Because sometimes it gets you in trouble.” “It’s sacrificing. ‘Man, I can’t have fun right now. I’ve got to get my family right. I can’t do this right now. I can’t mess up.’ Forget the fast money. I’ve got to think about longevity.” “You can get locked up and do five years for $1,000. That money gone. It’s gone. You’re like… ‘Man, I just did that for $1,000…’ And I could have waited five years and I would’ve had $10 million.” “That’s why I’m where I’m at right now. That’s how I used to think. My mom working… She’s busting her behind. It’s me, my brother and my two sisters at home. I’m the oldest…” “So I’ve got to make sure everybody right. And it’s like… Man, I can’t wait, but I’ve got to wait. That’s the sacrifice. I’ve got to be patient. People don’t look at it like that. It’s like… ‘Man, I need that money right now.’ But you don’t need that money right now. Just wait.”
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Kyrie Irving says Kobe Bryant told him to read ‘The Alchemist’ in order to stop being obsessed with proving people wrong “He knew how curious I was, not just about being great at the game, but about life. That’s why he gave me the book ‘The Alchemist’ and told me to read that… Kobe’s smart… He studied all the greats in every other industry so he could figure out how to be great too…” “It was about really taking the time to get to know who the people are around you. Get to know them as much as you invest in watching the game. I’m an avid student of all the greats in basketball.” “He really put all those other authors in my life so I could help balance what I was into. Since I was 12 or 13 years old, I’ve studied basketball more than 10,000 hours, as they say before you become an expert or master your craft.” “I’ve played more than 10,000 hours. I’ve done all that. When I got to Boston, I was ready for a new challenge, but I didn’t know how it was going to come from within. That’s why he gave me The Alchemist.” “The journey is the reward. Embrace the journey. Don’t think about the end goal so much where you’re fixated on trying to prove people wrong or be at the mountaintop without going through the details that it takes to really appreciate it. That was him.” “His mentorship was like, ‘Yo, stay curious, bro. I know you’re different. You’re not like everybody else out here.’”
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![Mike Macdonald says John Harbaugh and Jim Harbaugh taught him why players play so hard for certain coaches “It’s impossible to understate it. We talk about old-school principles, new-school methods. They’re about the same stuff.” “Tough as nails. Competitive as crap. Team first. They love their players. That’s probably the number one thing that sticks out. They have their players’ backs at all times. And I think the players feel that.” “That’s what makes their team so tight. Their players play so hard for them. But they go about it different ways.” “Jim… we’re not going to go right here, we’re going to take a detour and end up further. It’s just going to look a little different.” “John is a little bit more [direct] all the time, which is a little bit more my personality.” “Man, I loved working for those guys.”](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2095523846786777453/amplify_video_thumb/2095456809448247297/img/zw8xIyA6JBwkU40-.jpg)
Mike Macdonald says John Harbaugh and Jim Harbaugh taught him why players play so hard for certain coaches “It’s impossible to understate it. We talk about old-school principles, new-school methods. They’re about the same stuff.” “Tough as nails. Competitive as crap. Team first. They love their players. That’s probably the number one thing that sticks out. They have their players’ backs at all times. And I think the players feel that.” “That’s what makes their team so tight. Their players play so hard for them. But they go about it different ways.” “Jim… we’re not going to go right here, we’re going to take a detour and end up further. It’s just going to look a little different.” “John is a little bit more [direct] all the time, which is a little bit more my personality.” “Man, I loved working for those guys.”
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Mike Evans says elite players are separated by their ability to tolerate boredom “When I was in college, I had a lot of film on Andre Johnson, Calvin Johnson, Moss, Brandon Marshall, all those guys. But I also watched the smaller guys, really. Welker. Dudes that had great footwork and understanding of combinations.” “I used to just pick apart everything they did, releases, hand fighting down the field, all those things. It was crazy how fast I was able to excel, my game, just watching them.” “For younger receivers, younger football players in high school and middle school, if you’ve got access to film, you need to watch film, the good and the bad, not just highlights. You need to watch the whole thing. How they practice. How the pros practice.” “When I got to college, you watch every practice, every play. All of it’s critiqued. I learned really early how to practice hard. I would say their consistent work ethic and their consistent discipline. Because you can get bored easy doing the same thing over and over. If you do anything too many times, it gets boring.” “But the way they stay consistent and just keep working and stay disciplined, that’s why they’re where they’re at, playing at the highest level.”
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Peyton Watson says Michael Malone once called him out in front of the entire team because he wasn't prepared, and says it changed his career trajectory “I was playing KD on the scout team. Coach Malone asked me in front of the team, ‘Okay, P, what’s the name of this play that we’ve been running that you just ran?’” “I remember just being like, ‘I don’t know.’ I really just don’t know. I didn’t know. His face turned red, bro, and he just started chewing me out. ‘You’re the youngest one in here. You should be paying attention. We give you a book with all the plays on it. You should know these things.’” “‘You’ve been playing KD for X amount of practices and you don’t know these things. That shows you haven’t been paying attention, and maybe you aren’t ready to play if I call your number.’” “You could hear a pin drop in the practice facility. I remember feeling embarrassed, pissed off. But at the same time, I felt embarrassed because I didn’t know. He asked me a question and I wasn’t prepared to answer it. Since then, I’ve always been hyper-focused on the game plan, the scout, I know everything now.” “I remember damn near tearing up. I’m like, ‘Bro, he’s chewing me out right now.’ I felt sick to my stomach. But I also took it like, he wouldn’t be saying nothing to me if I wasn’t an important piece of this team and he didn’t think I could be really good moving forward.” “He was holding me to a high standard. At the time I hated that shit, but in retrospect it was responsible for my attention to detail now.”
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Malik Willis explains how he went from the NFL giving him just 3 starts before people decided he couldn’t play and writing him off, to now being a starting quarterback on a $68,000,000 contract “Either you’re going to be all nervous and scared, or you’re going to go out with a bang. I was like, I’m going to go out with a bang if I’m going to go.” “I played three games in Tennessee. I started three games, bro. And it was like, ‘Oh, that’s it.’ I see guys get like 20, 15 games to play and get better. Couple seasons.” “I got three games and it’s, ‘Oh, it’s over with. That was trash.’ I’m like, dang, I ain’t even get to play. I had to learn, bro.” “So what can you do? You can get better. You can not worry about that stuff. You just try to keep getting better. Keep getting better.” “In Green Bay, I don’t get to play till Week 16. So what I’m doing every day, I’m going against our defense. I’m trying to keep getting better. I’m trying to challenge them like they try to challenge me.” “It helped me learn and it helped me grow. If you don’t take advantage of those opportunities, you’re disrespecting yourself at that point.”
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Zac Taylor says in Sean McVay’s first Rams meetings almost nobody was taking notes until McVay suddenly started pop quizzing people, and when DC Wade Phillips couldn’t answer one of the first questions, he said the entire room realized he could ask anybody at any time and so they started hiding cheat sheets under their legs “I became a better notetaker in Sean McVay’s first team meetings. Sean just started blindsiding people with these culture tests. The first two team meetings, he gives the whole culture.” “It’s unbelievable. You could make a whole documentary on Sean’s first three team meetings in LA. It’s great information, but not everybody was really taking notes like that.” “Then the fourth team meeting, Sean starts firing questions at people. Wade Phillips. And so when Wade failed, it was like a wake-up call: ‘Oh, he could ask anybody.’ So I started typing.” “I’d sit in the back corner like a little kid with Whit and Sully and we’d be cheating off each other. I had this printout of the team-culture notes just in case Sean threw a question at us. After that point, everybody was on the top of their seat.” “You’re taking notes. You’re keeping a list in your pocket somewhere under your leg because he was calling anybody out at any moment. You were on alert, that’s for sure.”
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Mikal Bridges says he lifts immediately after NBA games to teach himself he has more in the tank “If my body feels good, I got enough energy, my body’s system is already warm. It kind of also shows you how much mentally your body can do. You might think you could play a full game and you’ve given your best and, ‘I can’t do nothing else.’” “It shows you that your brain mentally, if you just go do it, you can give actually way more than you think. Like, I actually have stuff in the tank. Even though you play a full game and you’re tired, you think, ‘I have nothing left.’ But then you go put in this lift.” “Mentally, you’re just like… ‘Hey, Jalen, I dropped 20 last night and I bench pressed.’ If I have all this adrenaline still, why not lift? And you have the most amount of time to recover if you get the lift in right after the game.”
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Joe Burrow says 1st round draft pick rookies should just live entirely off endorsement money and they would be financially capable of retiring after their 4th season “That first rookie deal, just try to live off your endorsement money. You’ll make enough off the field to live. But going into the NFL, you expect to have a long career and be great, but that’s not always how it plays out.” “You see guys that spend a lot of their rookie-deal money, and then they end up stinking and don’t get a second deal. Now they’ve got to go find a job immediately because they’ve got bills to pay.” “Whereas if you position yourself off the field in a way that you can live off of that… Really, if you’re a first-round pick, you should be able to retire after playing four years of football if you live just on the off-the-field money and live within your means.”
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Bijan Robinson says NIL money can make young players think they no longer have to work or listen “At Texas, they were always telling me, ‘Yo B, go out, bro. Have fun.’ Obviously, as college kids, we did a little bit of fun, but with me, I was so locked in.” “They were always like, ‘Why don’t you come out?’ But then on the flip side they’re always like, ‘Damn B, I want to be where you’re at.’ I’m like, ‘You’ve got to make a choice.’ It’s always good to have fun. You have to have fun in college and experience it.” “But at the same time, you have to be so focused and locked in and understand, especially in my position, I was trying to do big things and make it as high as I possibly could. As much as I love it for kids, they’re starting to get paid all this money and then their mentality becomes so shot.” “They’re like, ‘I have money. I can do this. I don’t have to work as hard.’ I saw a video on TikTok the other day, and it was this college kid yelling at his coach in camp. He was like, ‘Bro, I don’t have to listen to you. I got all this money. I don’t got to listen.’ I was like, ‘Yeah, that’s a different world. What?’ I would’ve got ripped. I would’ve got kicked off the team.” “For me to explain that to kids now, I’m like, ‘Bro, you have to go to college for relationships and the relationship with the coaches.’ It’s cool to get money. You will get money if you perform the right way.”
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Jim Harbaugh reveals his dad gave him a phrase at 6 years old that he still lives by and uses today to stay grateful in times of adversity “Things that I thought maybe I figured out for myself, I later realized were just things that they had told me earlier that I didn’t quite hear well enough at the time.” “Attack each day with an enthusiasm unknown to mankind. I first heard that when I was six years old. My dad’s dropping myself and my brother John off at school. ‘Okay boys, grab your lunch boxes and attack this day with an enthusiasm unknown to mankind. Can’t take any wooden nickels. Okay, get going.’” “‘Dad, where’s the car?’ ‘No car today, boys. We’re walking. Grab a basketball. Get 100 with the right, 100 with the left.’ ‘Who’s got it better than us?’ ... ‘Nobody, Dad. Nobody.’” “Playing catch with us and believing in us, those are the things that stick with me the most.”
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Mike Macdonald says culture is basically a fancy word people overcomplicate “It’s a fancy word. We don’t say culture. What is it exactly? I don’t know. Then you start using a bunch of buzzwords and stuff and now you sound like an idiot.” “It’s just how you do everything. It’s just how you operate. Just how we roll. What’s important to us. John Harbaugh said, ‘Shared understanding of principles.’ I thought that was a pretty cool definition.” “What’s helped this year is tightening it down, coming into focus about who we want to be, how we want to operate, what’s important to us. Making it resonate with the guys more.” “Having a more effective message. And hopefully they’re buying in. I think they are. It feels like it. We’ve got great energy. To see everybody celebrate each other is just what it’s all about.”
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