Team Never Quit

• I’m just a normal, blue-collar dude, who’s been thru the struggle, on and off the basketball floor.
• 2 things that help get me by - no matter what: My character and my work ethic.
• How can I help my team? Selflessness.
• There’s no chance I’m giving up.
• I want shit to get tough, because that when the mental edge takes over.
• Patriotism runs deep in my family.
• I can support the military because of my connections to it, but I still understand that there are issues in America, and I can support my teammates and what they have felt in their lives.
• I could’ve quit – I gave it 7 years – Then I went from getting booed to crowds chanting my name.
• People think that because I’m 7 feet; I’ve got millions of dollars; I drive nice cars – everything is great, but I’m still a normal human being. Sometimes things are hard.
• You are gonna get your opportunity and you better be ready.
• I wanna be known as a man who did something for someone else.

• Use your failures as your advancement
• The first mile of my entire life was when I was 33 years old.
• When I was incarcerated, I thought “I’ve gotta do something to get my life together.” And running was a big part of that.
• The majority of ultra-runners I know have some degree of addictive behavior. It drives them to go above and beyond.
• We’re driven to the next level of competition.
• When I was doing [cocaine], it wasn’t enough to do a gram or two a day, it was a quarter ounce.
• I thrive on pain.
• If you think you are gonna run 26, 50, or 100 miles and have no pain, you have no idea what you’re doing. You’ve got to be ready for it and just embrace it.
• I choose to do this [running] and I accept that pain.
• [Marcus Luttrell] Pain is a matter of perspective of the person going through it.
• 31 men gave everything they had for this country – for this freedom.
• I know I can’t give up.
• If you’ve ever quit, the next time, it’s easier to quit.
• I had all the positives a person could have in life, and yet I had a criminal record.
• I run 31 miles a day for 31 days, for 31 heroes.
• [Your son] is gonna be riding on my shoulder tomorrow and I’m gonna be listening to every word he says. When I think I’m hurting a little bit, and he says let’s go, we’ve just got 5 miles left, or 20 miles left.
• It’s 2020 and those families are still hurting 9 years later.

• In the U.S., we are unbelievable consumers of prostitution, and what comes with that is minors.
• You’re on deployment every time you walk out of the house.
• One in four women is sexually assaulted or sexually abused.
• The sex trafficking crime is so open. It’s openly advertised.
• There are people that think we should defund the police. I think more reasonable people think we should reallocate funds and figure out ways to do this better. There are people out there who can augment what law enforcement is lacking.
• The [funding] money is gonna go where the people demand it.
• [Our organization], All Things Possible does everything from simple counseling to freeing sex slaves.
• Find strength in simply being alive.
• What comes off of your tongue – what you speak – is what you become.
• The term “Yahweh” is the sound of breathing.
• The mere fact that we, as humans, are breathing, we’re saying the name of our Creator every time we breathe.
• What is God’s name? The thing that gives breath to everything that lives.
• The first thing a baby says is that breath of life.
• One family, who lost their son on the battlefield, found relief in the fact that the last breath their son took was the name of our creator.
• Find strength, find solace, and find peace, in that simple act of breathing. If you’re alive, you’re saying God’s name, and He’s there to help to you.

• I learned as I failed.
• I couldn’t shake the desire to be specialized. I wanted to be tested to see if I could even do it.
• The most isolated and depressed I’ve ever felt was being in a Haitian jail. I had zero control – there’s nothing we could do. Bare-footed with a shirt & pants, and that’s it.
• My headspace was in survival mode.
• I had never been so terrified. When I finally got on that plane with my passport on a commercial airline to Miami, tears were streaming down my eyes.
• One day my wife started slurring her speech, and we learned she had contracted Myasthenia Gravis, an auto-immune disease that affects the immune system from the shoulders up.
• One night while in the hospital, she was looking at me, and her eyes rolled back into her head. I quickly assembled the bag mask and called for help. I’ve never been through anything like that. It was a never quit moment.
• You push forward by being the positive light in someone else’s miserable experience.
• You gotta be a rock for your people.
• You can’t bail on people when it gets to be the hardest part of their life.
• It doesn’t matter how much money you’ve got, you can’t be a Navy SEAL. You gotta put the work in.
• No matter how much someone would pay me, I’d never put myself back in a position to work for someone else.
• My goal in life is to never work for somebody else.

What an emotional and heartfelt visit we have in store this week with special guest, Taya Kyle, widow of US Navy SEAL Chris Kyle. She is an author, political commentator, mother, and military veterans family activist. Taya speaks openly about her life with Chris Kyle, her heart-wrenching experiences, powerful dreams, and a strong faith which has helped keep her moving forward in life with positivity since Chris’ death. She is nothing shy of an amazing woman – an inspiration to all.