If you put your effort and concentration and to play into your potential to be the best that you can be, I don't care what the scoreboard says at the end of the game. In my book, we're going to be winners.

The talent for so many players today, the talent and the spotlight, it's taking them to heights that their character's not strong enough to support.

I'm one of those set goals achievements.

I talked about faith, passion, obviously the drive with the guys that I've been around

and the guys that surround me every single day.

If I want to be one of the best, I've got to play with and against the best.

So that which gets praised gets repeated.

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This is T.J.

I'm here with Adam.

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And today we're going to talk about planting seeds.

And we're going to talk about how leadership is not always just seeing the fruit of everything that you do.

In fact, a lot of times I think leadership, I don't know what you think, Adam, but 90% of time, you don't immediately see the fruit of your leadership.

And I think to some people that becomes defeating or frustrating.

But leadership is all about, you know, serving and planting seeds and getting people to, in the

future, be who you want them to be.

And I think a lot of times in leadership, we think what can we get them to do right now?

But really, really good leaders understand they're always cultivating.

They're always planting little seeds here and there.

And even when they don't get the feedback they want, even they don't receive the, you know, the call back, the text back, the extra effort on a play, the, you name it, whatever it is, they don't get back. They get frustrated as a leader. But part of being a leader is accepting the fact that you are just planting seeds a lot of the time and you might not see them always come to

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