Johnny Quinn, Former U.S. Olympic Bobsledder - Author/Speaker
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2019
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Episode 319
Johnny Quinn is an author and speaker who went from NFL football player to Olympic bobsledder. He is the author of the book "PUSH: Breaking Through the Barriers" which was released in February of 2018.
In college, Johnny was a wide receiver with North Texas, where he was a member of 3 Sun Belt Conference championship teams, ultimately being inducted into the North Texas Hall of Fame in 2011.
Cut three times from NFL teams, Johnny lost 2.6 million dollars in NFL contracts and blew out his knee. Then he became an Olympian for the United States of America.
Johnny is just the third person ever to have played in the NFL and have competed in the Winter Olympics. (Herschel Walker/Jeremy Bloom were the others)
On this episode of the podcast, we talk with Johnny about his crazy journey from football to bobsledding, becoming a new Dad, his pursuit of an NFL career, the viral moment at the Olympics (it's not what you think), and what it looks like to stand for Christ and live unashamed for Him.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:17.0 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome everyone to the Sports Spectrum podcast. |
| 0:22.8 | Great to have you along on the show today. |
| 0:25.1 | I am Jason Romano. |
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| 1:08.8 | Quinn as our guest here today on the Sports Spectrum podcast. |
| 1:13.7 | Johnny has a 2014 United States Olympian. |
| 1:17.5 | That was the Olympics in Sochi, Russia. |
| 1:20.4 | He was an Olympic bobsledder. |
| 1:22.8 | But Johnny, when you hear about his past, it had nothing to do with Bob Sletting. |
| 1:28.9 | He was a wide receiver at the University of North Texas, |
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