Professional Athlete
topic on 4 shows · 9 statements across 6 episodes
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Ohanian: Being an Elite Athlete Is Much Harder Than VC or Tech
“Being a professional athlete at that level is much harder than the work that we do, so I get that, like, it's just harder work as well”
Margain: Pro sports teams build better communities by inspiring youth discipline
“When you have professional athletes in your community, they become the professional heroes of many kids, thousands of kids. So the thesis was, if you have those professional heroes, and you have 30, 40,000 kids wanting to be like them from year 10 to 20, ok, a…”
Creator careers resemble professional athletics: short lifespans with no post-career support
“You know, it, it's almost like a career as a professional athlete. It lasts a couple or three years and then you're 30 years old and you've only ever Done one thing, and you, it's hard to figure out what to do next.”
Su'a: Earning athletes' trust requires physical presence and shared hardship
“A lot of professional athletes, that's where it goes, and so at first, you can't shove anything. You are not shoving mental skills or tools down their throat, and so I can say all I want, but they're going to watch behavior. They're gonna see how I go around, …”
Su'a: Many Well-Known Professional Athletes Privately Lack Confidence
“I have learned through Talking to professional athletes, how many of them lack confidence. They will tell it to my face. They'll say, I don't have confidence. There are players who I will not name, but who all of us know would, you would be surprised to hear h…”
Su'a: Top athletes succeed because they refuse to maintain backup plans
“The athletes are the ones who tell me that the odds were against them. They sure shared with me everything that they did, but, and they always had coaches and parents telling them, you should go do something else. You should go do this. You should have a backu…”
Whoop Refused to Pay Professional Athletes for Early Product Adoption
“One perfect example of that, which we just talked about, is having these high-profile athletes wearing our product twenty-four-seven without us paying them. You know, I said, we're not going to sponsor professional athletes. They're going to either use this te…”
Winning Star Athletes Requires Building Relationships With Their Personal Trainers
“And the key to getting these high profile people is often finding someone in their life who's more influential to them than other people realize, and for the most part is somewhat unknown. And in the case of Professional athletes that often turns out to be the…”
Rabil: Athletic Longevity Ranks Sleep, Hydration, and Nutrition Above Workouts and Skills
“To sustain a career into your thirties, even into your twenties, as a hard charging professional athlete that's in a contact sport, you always have to take care of your body. Sleep, number one. Hydrate, number two. Eat, number three. Stay on your workouts, num…”