#45: Staying in the Moment with Barry Sanders
JAYSON WALLER UNLEASHED
Jayson Waller
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🗓️ 29 October 2020
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Today on the show we’re talking with Barry Sanders about his esteemed football career, winning the heisman, breaking records, and being inducted into the Hall of Fame. Barry talks about how he is always raising his own bar, there is never a “top”, you’re always working, and grinding to achieve your goals.
Even as a young kid Barry was consumed by football, he would watch the games every week, go out and throw the ball around, and even play his electronic football games. It was no surprise that he would go on to be one of the greatest players of all time. Barry grew up with 10 siblings, he learned how to compete with his brothers at a young age, that taught him to keep pushing himself.
Barry always loved what he did and he saw success when the team succeeded, he could have had the all time rushing record in his rookie season, but he let the guys who didn’t get to play often in. He never had to prove anything to anyone but himself.
Staying in the moment and not looking too far ahead has been Barry’s motto his whole life. He played with guys in high school who thought they were going to the NFL. Barry knew that he had to take things one step at a time, and become the best without losing focus on where he was.
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Timestamps:
1:50 - Barry Sanders’ Family Life
3:27 - Struggles in Life
7:35 - Developing a Competitive Drive
9:40 - Barry’s Mentors
13:01 - Pivotal Moments in Life
15:49 - Treating Mistakes as Lessons
18:36 - Getting Recruited
24:18 - Playing College Football as a Freshman
28:45 - Learning From Successful Players
31:07 - Biggest Accomplishments in Football
34:51 - Getting Recognized for Working Hard
37:21 - Selflessness
40:14 - Using Teamwork to Succeed
41:28 - Coaches
44:39 - Bringing out Motivation
45:53 - Difficulty of Getting Into the NFL
50:18 - Stay in the Moment
52:19 - You are What You Do Everyday
55:02 - Raising Your Own Bar
58:15 - Hall of Fame
1:01:10 - Post Football
1:05:18 - Players Define the Game
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| 0:00.0 | Adam, true underdog. |
| 0:02.8 | I unleash the power with him. |
| 0:06.2 | Jason Waller here. |
| 0:07.3 | True underdog, super excited about the guest we have today. |
| 0:12.2 | My favorite football player growing up as a child, |
| 0:15.1 | used to watch every one of your games. |
| 0:16.5 | It was the first draft I ever watched. |
| 0:18.5 | Barry Sanders, Hall of Fame running back, leading Russia for the |
| 0:21.4 | Lions, Heisman winner. How are you doing, Barry? I'm doing great, man. It's great to be here. Thanks for having me. And you know what? We're here in Detroit, Michigan area, right? You're still here where you got drafted. You're still living here in the community. I want the listeners and followers, for those that don't watch football to understand how big of an icon you are in this state and for this team. I mean, me being a diehard Lions fan my entire life, and I know a lot of the people here that are filming this show with us, they're huge fans. They had you sign in stuff before we got on here. And you've been out of the game for over 20 years. And, you know, when you got drafted by the |
| 0:54.5 | Detroit Lions, you were the best running back in college. You broke all the records for rushing yards and touchdowns. You get drafted the number two pick. Do you remember who the number one pick was? Yeah. I remember her number one pick. The number one pick that year was Troy Eggman. That's right. I was actually number three. Oh, you were number three. That's my fault. You were number three. |
| 1:11.8 | But I'll take two, though. |
| 1:12.7 | I'll take number two. |
| 1:13.7 | You know why I said that though? |
| 1:14.7 | I'll take number two money. |
| 1:15.6 | I'll take number two money. |
| 1:15.6 | Number two money. |
| 1:16.7 | They owe you that money. |
| 1:17.9 | Tony Mandritch was number two. |
| 1:19.4 | Right. |
| 1:19.7 | And that didn't last long. |
| 1:20.8 | That's what I meant. in, then it was Tony Mandrich, then it was you. And you came into the game and you were |
| 1:27.8 | rookie of the year, you're rookie year, you broke a thousand yards, you almost won the rushing |
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