Jim "The Rookie" Morris: ...things happen for a reason

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Entrepreneurship, Business

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Hear from Jim Morris, the athlete and motivational speaker who was the inspiration for the movie, "The Rookie", based on Jim’s book, "The Oldest Rookie: Big League Dreams from a Small Town Guy". Jim’s journey has been called, “a testimony to the power of dreams and their ability to inspire and transform human life.”

His website is https://www.jimtherookiemorris.com/

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Jan Black.
0:14.7	And I'm Laura Owens. Joining us on this episode is Jim Morris, who's an athlete, author,
0:20.7	teacher, and inspiration for the movie The Rookie, which was based on Jim's book, The Oldest Rookie, Big League Dreams from a Small Town guy.
0:29.3	Jim's journey has been called a testimony to the power of dreams and their ability to inspire and transform human life.
0:37.9	Jim, we thank you so much for joining us.
0:40.3	Oh, happy to be here.
0:41.1	Thanks for having me.
0:42.2	The rookie was a major motion picture,
0:44.7	but for people who aren't familiar with your story,
0:47.3	give us a thumbnail sketch.
0:49.6	Oh, wow.
0:50.1	Teaching out in West Texas at a little bitty school
0:52.4	for a team who hadn't won in a lot of years.
0:55.3	I took over and let's just say they'd won one game each year for the three years before I got there.
1:01.1	And I want to change the mindset of these kids. And I didn't know how to do it. And then, you know,
1:06.2	I just started teaching them my way. I had a father who was abusive verbally and physically.
1:29.3	Then my football coach was verbally abusive. and I thought if I ever get to work with kids, I'm going to teach them. I'm not going to yell at them. I'm not going to scream, not going to curse. I'm going to talk to them like they're human beings. It ended up working. They bought into it. Later on the second year, there was an athletic director who stopped me on my way to practice one day to tell me you've taken these kids as far as you can they're never going to
1:33.0	mount to anything and then he put his finger in my chest and he goes as for you you're too nice
1:38.3	and you're never going to go as far as I'm going to go in the coaching field because you're too
1:42.4	nice and I know how to step on people.
1:49.2	The problem with that was that two of my kids heard it. And before I could get to the field,
1:53.9	everybody on the team knew that the guy not only in charge of all the coaches, but all the kids,
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