Welcome to the Sports Motivation Podcast. This is your host, Nees-Shobo. This is a special edition of the Sports Motivation Podcast, Wednesday's editions. It's called it Books and Bars, and I break down books. I break down bars from my favorite rap songs. Today I'm breaking down a book. All right. Now, this happens to be a great book. I remember reading this about six months ago, and I read another one of his books.

My dad gave it to me when I got done with the NFL, and it was actually called Bounce Back,

and it was because I was in a rough time, trying to bounce back from getting booted out the league.

It was a tough time for me.

But this book is called Players First, and it's by John Collier Perry, the coach of the Kentucky Wildcats.

He is a beast of a coach.

He has won, I don't know, a couple championships, two, three.

I'm not sure how many.

But he's a beast.

He's a legend.

Very controversial, in a sense. A lot of people don't

like his style. It's kind of a very confident, very unapologetic about his philosophy.

And his philosophy is pretty much laid out in this book, and it's called Players First.

All right. Now, this is a dude who actually really, really cares about his players,

I believe, and many knock him because he's known for basically getting the best players and

won and done, right? Bringing them through one year, sent him to the NBA. And a lot of people

like, why are you doing that? They need their education. He's like, man, I'm changing the, the trajectory of their family. Like, I mean, from their whole

bloodline by putting them in a position to go to the NBA and make millions of dollars doing

what they love. So anyway, I happen to agree with his philosophy,

but here's one thing, an excerpt from his book that I wanted to talk about that I thought was

very interesting, all right? He said this, one thing I have to guard against is the tendency

of my kids to look too far down the road and also to take certain things for granted rather

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