Is he any less of an athlete?
Alex was a Formula 1 racer. Formula 1 cars are the fastest and most dangerous cars to race and often exceed 220 miles per hour (compared with Nascar’s average speed of 180 mph) and Alex was one of the best the sport has ever seen. In 2001 Alex Zanardi’s car was hit by another car as…
This year’s graduation speech
Last year I wrote a post that I intended to be my speech if ever I was asked to give a commencement speech by a school. (Hey Harvard, I’m still waiting for that honorary degree). Any way, I got some good feedback from it, no one posts comments here but they tell me what they…
Why I am the proudest man in town
It was this last Sunday and I was struck speechless, a rare occasion for me. It was our team banquet and after dinner the girls had a few presentations to make. They honored each other with gag gifts, I was even given the best hair award (nice!). They honored their parents for their support and they honored our one…
Eliminate the excuses, I’ve tried them all, they’re wrong.
“I just don’t have the time” “I would but I get my workout at work” “Since I don’t have the time to do it every day, I might as well not even start” “That program was too intense”, “I get too sore” “Healthy? I’m healthy enough.” I’ve heard them all, in fact I’ve said them all at some…
The day I met Picasso, a true story.
This is a long post, but I realized that I never wrote about it before. I swear that it’s true, though the quotes may be fudged a bit. We were in San Jose California. Me, my co-coach Matt and a friend named Jim who, at the time, was going to open his own gym. We…
Dreaming is not a waste of time
I remember the cartoon we had on our refrigerator when I was a kid. It was of two archaeologists with pith helmets and all looking at a little nub sticking out of the ground in a desert scene. The one archaeologist walking away says over his shoulder to the other “yeah, it’s probably nuthin.” But in a cut away…