1324 | Valorie Kondos: “Whenever You Try to Be Somebody Else You Will Always be a Second-Rate Them.”
The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks
Sean Croxton
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Today on QOD, Hall of Fame gymnastics coach, Valorie Kondos, shares her incredible story about what can happen when you ask for what you want, do your best, and be yourself.
Source: HRR: UCLA Gymnastics Coach Valorie Kondos Field
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| 0:00.0 | Yo, today's QODS, whenever you try to be somebody else, |
| 0:04.8 | you will always be a second rate dammer. |
| 0:07.7 | Here we go. |
| 0:08.7 | Welcome back to the quarter of the day show I'm your host, Sean Crox and a Sean Crox |
| 0:37.6 | and we got a brand new speaker on the show today. |
| 0:41.0 | Her name is Valerie Condos, aka Miss Val. |
| 0:45.4 | Miss Val is a Hall of Fame gymnastics coach at UCLA and she never actually did gymnastics. |
| 0:56.1 | How does that happen? |
| 0:57.8 | She's going to tell the story about how it happened, about asking for help and doing |
| 1:03.9 | your best in being yourself. |
| 1:07.6 | Valerie Condos, coming up. |
| 1:12.0 | So all of those accolades are really cool and I love to enumerate them because it's like, |
| 1:18.9 | ooh, coach of the century. |
| 1:20.8 | Ooh, UCLA Hall of Fame. |
| 1:24.1 | But it was alluded to, I've been at UCLA 37 years and I've been the head coach for 30 |
| 1:31.9 | years now. |
| 1:34.3 | The bon fun fact that you heard was I've never done gymnastics. |
| 1:39.6 | I've never, well, as I say, I've never gone upside down but I went upside down last year |
| 1:43.6 | at my 58th birthday and I, my girlfriend won the deal cartwheel and it was horrible. |
| 1:49.6 | I didn't even get over so I kind of went upside down. |
| 1:54.8 | But my story is really, I feel important because of how I got to where I am and I wrote |
| 2:00.5 | the book, Life is Short, Don't Wait to Dance and it's all about how a dancer choreographer |
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