THE ED MYLETT SHOW - The Ultimate Comeback W/ Alex Rodriguez

Episode Date: April 14, 2020

"I have a Ph.D. in failing, and a Master's in getting back up!" I know a lot of people right now are talking about the opportunity we have during this crisis... so I thought who better to bring on my show than someone who is an absolute legend when it comes to comebacks! This man needs no introduction, at just 18 he was drafted into the MLB to become a 12-time All-Star, winning 3 MVP awards, 10 Silver Slugger awards, and 2 Gold Glove awards. AND with 25 Grand Slams, he is the all-time record holder for the most career Grand Slams! Despite this man being one of the greatest baseball players of all time, he was also one of the most criticized sports figures in history! In this interview, A-Rod tells us how he used his negative experiences, his rejection and his setbacks to make one of the GREATEST comebacks of all time. When you think about LEGENDS, you typically think about their wins, accomplishments, and accolades.... you don’t think about all the times they failed in order to get where they are! Right now, you may feel you are in a time of failure. You may be experiencing a setback that you can't figure out how to overcome. But Alex and I are here to remind you that there is OPPORTUNITY in your struggle and give you ACTIONABLE tips to help develop the mindset and work ethic needed to capitalize on your pain RIGHT NOW. A-Rod gets real honest about his suspension from the MLB and how it evolved him not just as a player but as a man. He even shares what he would do if he were commissioner for a day of the MLB! We cover all things SUCCESS in family, love, and life. I truly feel blessed to share this conversation with you. The opportunity we have right now is an opportunity of a lifetime…. If you can give EVERYTHING to your DREAM, if you keep getting up to bat, and if you keep swinging, I promise that you WILL hit a homerun! This interview is POWERFUL.... words were said in this interview that has never been heard before about what it takes to be GREAT. We talk all things from what drove him growing up, success with family, dealing with criticism, advice for entrepreneurs, rejection, and what it takes to make a real COMEBACK!  

This is the Edmmerley Show. Okay, welcome back to Max Out everybody. Very excited to bring my good friend here to share him with you all today. I think the timing is perfect because if some of the things going on in the world, he needs no introduction, but I'll give him one. For me, first, he's the greatest baseball player. I've ever laid eyes on. And millions and millions of people would agree with that settlement, but he's also an

incredibly successful entrepreneur, broadcaster. But my favorite part about him is I've gotten a known as a friend over the last many years is the type of family man he is. And that really is the thing I admire the part about him is I've gotten to know him as a friend over the last many years is the type of family man he is. And that really is the thing I admire the most about him. And so I couldn't think of a better person to share with all of you during these times. Then my friend Alex Rodriguez so Alex thanks for being here today brother. It's a pleasure to be here. We've been planning this for a while, but I think you're right. This is the perfect time to hopefully shed some good energy to all your great listeners. Thanks so, brother. So speaking of that, we won't talk all about just the timing

we're in, but we, if you're listening to this at a different time, we're watching it, we're filming this during the coronavirus pandemic. And obviously, that's created a lot of anxiety, fear, worry, and people, someone like you and Jen, millions of people look up to you guys. And I'm just curious, any advice you would have for people to cope and maybe even thrive during this time, anything you've been doing or do you think other people should be doing? Yeah, I do. I think, look, this is a crisis.

There's no way around it. And I feel for so many people that work so hard and do the right thing and mother and father or children. And they're just going through a difficult time and they really do not deserve that. But I'm always been a guy that tries to make lemonade at a lemons and turn a crisis into a positive. And I think with this given time, you have an opportunity of a lifetime

to get yourself in better physical condition, to be able to read more, to be able to listen to podcasts, look at YouTube, double down on your set of skills, create content, tell your stories. And I do feel that when we come out of this, if you do the right things now and you plant the right seeds, you will be able to come out better, more grateful, more frugal. I think we're going to think about consumer spending a little bit differently. And I think that if you take this opportunity, you'll be better when you get to the other

side of the lake. Yeah, I'm going to say that too. Great advice. It's almost like you could really use this as preparation time, almost like a separator. You know, and when we do get launched back into the world at some point, there is going to be a separation for those that prefer, mentally physically, they grew themselves, and those that sort of took the sweatpants Netflix every single day approach. And when we get out of here, there's going to be a separator because we're going to have to give it. You're

probably going to have to be better, stronger, more capable than you were before, just to get to the same place, never mind it, excels. So I'm with you, a million percent on that. I want to talk a little bit about you and what you just said on that because when I got to know you, I was fascinated, man, with I knew you were successful entrepreneur, but the the genesis of it sort of blew my mind, the way you grew up, and then your entrance into entrepreneurship, just share with them, because I think there's a lot of people right now, Alex, that ironically, it might be in their 30s or 40s, but they're sort of where you were when you got into entrepreneurship, meaning you're playing baseball, you know, and they're in this other career, but right now they're going,

I need to reevaluate. I can't just have this career, you know, this isn't going to get me to the promise lane. So tell them a little bit about that with you. Yeah, I think, like baseball, business is something that's kind of in my blood, is in my DNA, I love it. But I've always been process driven. And my superpower hasn't been my incredible IQ because God knows I don't have a lot of that.

But what I do have is I have world-class work ethic. And I'm a black belt when it comes to resilience and grit and never giving up. I also love team and I love bonding and collaborating. It's interesting. Magic was one of my favorite basketball players and he was great at feeding the ball. I think that when you feed the basketball versus always shooting, like being a ball hug, I think that you serve yourself better as well because as you serve the world and you're so wonderful at this and you give back, I would be nothing at if it wasn't for the boys and girls club.

If it wasn't for my mother who worked two jobs. If it wasn't for people that took a liking towards me when I was a young kid, I'm a scholarship kid. And I realized that I had to do three things as a young man. I had to get good grades. I had to play good baseball. And I have to behave in a certain manner to maintain my scholarship. Or those parents would not pick me up and drop me off because they wouldn't want me

around their kids. So I was always two strikes right behind the eight ball and I had to make sure that I kept myself ahead of the game. So that's what I love about business is I love it. I like to study it. I'm a lifelong student and I like to teach. And I love, love, love when people in my team, when they make their first million dollars,

oh my God, it's like, when in the world series, to see others succeed, it's pretty awesome. Yeah, the thing about you that shocked me was because I think you're a confident person. You meet you, I think you go, this is a very confident man. The people that I know that are the most successful and happy have this, they eventually arrive to it. I don't know if you had this when you're in your 20s or not, but they didn't know you then, but they have this amazing combination.

And I could name you lists of people that have been on my show or that are friends of years and eyes of really high self confidence combined with humility. And that humility of yours, everybody in Alex's case manifests itself in his preparation. This man doesn't show up to a meeting without a no-pad. Writing notes, I think that requires humility to want to be a student, if you are. I kind of consider you sort of meticulous in that regard. Was that baseball and business talk a little bit

about preparation for you? Is everyone right now they've got an opportunity to be doing that? How important is preparation to yourself confidence in your performance? It's been one of the big kind of nuggets of my career to be, you know, it's funny. I played 25 years at 25 years of professional baseball, hard to believe. And I never played, I had over 15,000 at bats in the major leagues. And I never had one game that I did not do my pre-game routine, not one, not one. And on those days that there was games sometimes played extra endings, 15, 16 endings,

and the game ended at 2.30 in the morning and we had a day game at 1 o'clock in the hot summer or Texas or something. And my routine wasn't 30 minutes, it may be three and a half minutes. It was condensed, it was concentrated, but I never, never, we get in. That's incredible. That's one of the things that I'm most proud of. People say, oh well, 696 home runs,

RBI's run scored. To me, that little data point that I told you is what I'm most proud of because, again, I am process driven, I am obsessed with the process, doing things the right way, working on your fundamentals, and every day there's a way that you can get your fundamentals a little bit better, you can get a little bit smarter, and today in 2020, there's so much access. I mean, you don't have to go to a library and drive down to downtown to go to the library building. Now you can just Google and YouTube. And there's so much information that that's what I get is I get my highs from. Yeah, brother. I, and the thing that separated you and does to this day of business and can,

and everybody is most people their work ethic or preparation level can be bought. So with a certain amount of success, they get a little loose. You know exactly, play with guys like this, right? We know them in business, little bit of success. They get to a certain income level of its business. And it gets bought for really big time players. I think their preparation and focus level increases the more success so they become.

But I'm always fascinated because I wasn't kidding. For me, you're the greatest baseball player but I'm always fascinated because I wasn't kidding for me You're the greatest baseball player, but I've ever seen and arguably guys and he'll just they'll probably make me edit this out, but He could potentially go down is the greatest player at two positions Which no one else can claim can't have a shortstop and third base in the history of a sport to potentially be the greatest shortstop or third basement or both is just Unbelievable what you achieved especially if everybody knew where you came from, which we don't have time

to get into today. What moved you more and does today? The fear of failing, or the desire to succeed and win, like really what moves you. I'm curious, like even to this day, or is it different from when you were 25 years old? I'm curious like even to this day, or is it different from when you were 25 years old? I think what I'm scared about is going into something

any project and not being prepared. I remember having nightmares that I would be playing in New York, a day game, of course, my boss is George Steinbrunner, but I always had this like fear that I would over sleep and miss the game. And I've always wanted to be, look, if I went to a college, it certainly wouldn't have been Harvard or Yale, right? I'm kind of the middle of the school guy. But again, if you have the heart and you have a passion and you have the will, there is no limits of what we can do in this country.

There are no limits. And I mean that. And if you're working nine to five, the guy that's working nine to nine, even though the nine to five may be higher or a queue or anything like that, the nine to nine ultimately is gonna have an advantage. And you compound that over days, weeks, years, decades,

and the one thing I can tell you about Jennifer and I, we are either gonna win or we're gonna die. But we're not gonna give up. And I played against people like that and so have you at. And you just rather just go to the next person because that person that won't give up, you know, there's a Rocky Bobo on a Rand Boisk

that is pretty admirable. Yeah, I learned that too, brother, from losing my dream. Obviously, I wasn't as talented as you, but you know that I wanted to play in the Bigs too. And, you know, I don't know that I gave it everything I had when I was in college or when I first started to play. And I have a dream. And I share this with people. It's a nightmare. I'm 50 years old next year. And I've done pretty well in business and in life. But when you don't give everything to a dream, like, I think you, one of the things you're most proud of is, hey, man, I gave everything I had to that sport, right?

I know through being with you and watching Jen, like you just can't work. I mean, it's just unbelievable work, and I didn't, everyone. I just want to share this with you as I ask Alex another question too, is I have nightmares at 50 years old. And when I give my talks and sports teams, I tell them, and the nightmares and I have it regularly,

we all have that nightmare we know or end, but we can't get out of. And mine is I can hear them announcing my name. Starting in center field, number eight, Eddie my lad, and you're, ah! And I can't get in the stadium. I'm locked out.

I've got my uniform on and I'm told in the security guard, let me in, let me in. I just called my name. I'm the starting center figures. You can't get in, man. You can't get in and it's me at 50 years old 30 years later wanting that dream and regretting so deeply that I didn't give everything I had That it's to this day haunts me and that's why I went and wanted to design never again

If I fail that's gonna be going out with everything I've got I'm never gonna have that nightmare of knowing of go on out with everything I've got, I'm never gonna have that nightmare of knowing of wondering the rest of my life, what could have been. I'm never gonna have that. And that's something obviously in that sport, you don't have to worry about. But I'm curious to ask you, brother,

I watch you with the preparation part. How important have your mentors been? I mean, I see you in Warren Buffett. I see you with these other people. You've had access to some of the best of the best. But talk about that. I think everybody listening, it's these define their mentor,

even if it's virtual through a podcast or something like that. How about that element for you? How critical has that been? It's been vital in paramount of so many ways that because I'm someone that I never sit around saying, I can't do it because I came from a single mother or I can't do it because I didn't graduate from college or I can't do it because I was too busy playing baseball. I've always figured out a way and I love playing chess and in many

ways is a microcosm of life. There's chess pieces and you have to be able to play them strategically. I'm a big, big believer in the long game. And if you believe in the long game and at the short game, mentors and allies are going to be a ginormous part of your business trajectory. And I think young people do not spend enough time building out their network, watering the plants, calling in. I mean, right now is a perfect time to look at your black book and reach out to 10 to 20 people daily on email. Say hello, send good energy, thinking of you,

sending positive energy, you're gonna be great. If you need any, I've sent out probably 15 emails a week to people that are not, let's just say, in my first team, their second layers and their inter-shary kind of relationships. Is there anything I can do to be helpful? Just offering yourself. And I think in times like these is where you have an opportunity as a friend, as a mentor, as a business associate to spread a lot of goodwill and also help someone where they need your most. So mentorship has been a huge part of my life.

And you pay it forward. Everyone actually said something huge. I'm so glad we're doing this, bro. Obviously, bless this time. If you're feeling helpless, get helpful, as he just said, you can't simultaneously feel helpless when you're being helpful to other people, reaching out, offering assistance, and the other thing everybody

through a time like this is, you don't have to believe everything you think. Not every thought you have is true. We all have these thoughts running around our heads, take time to be intentional about your thinking. Don't buy everything you're saying to yourself. It's not all true. We all have a BS meter. We give ourselves as well. And so speaking of that of thinking, I was thinking about you this morning, baseball, your sport is in a very interesting time right now. And obviously, you know, you're at the center of the sport, especially now.

And, you know, the season may look a little bit different, you know, the sport going forward. If I could make you commissioner for a day of the MLB, what would you do? Well, I think that this is an interesting question and I'm so passionate about that. I hope I don't get myself in trouble, but I do think that baseball has an opportunity of a lifetime. And we're obviously not going to play 162 games, which is the regular season amount of games. We may play 55 or 60 games and we may do it in a condensed season. You know, I remember growing up that my father, he loved baseball and he watched baseball and boxing.

Those were the two sports and my father passed away a handful of years ago. There was no NBA, there was no NFL. so baseball was king. And that's why I love baseball so much because I just grew up with Phil Resutor and Ralph Kiner's Corner and all of that. And I think baseball has an opportunity this year to tell the traditionalist, I'm sorry, 2020 is nine year year. The minute that we think about doing anything to show up

that they start screaming, not this year. 2020 is gonna be a year for piloting. And in many ways over the last two decades, Baseball's had a little bit of a straight jacket. And the NBA and NFL have flown by us. And they've, I think flown by us because good as that in the break. We have an opportunity this year

that any thought, any disruptive, naughty, radical thought that we've had about baseball, we should let it fly. One example, I mean, is there should be every game played this year, there should have a handful of players from each team might. Give us that access, right? Open up the floodgates. 60 of the most valuable assets in our game today

We hide them. They're called 60 batting cages Tell me what human being whether you like baseball or not You're not going to want to see Aaron judge hit the ball every day at 430 before he gets ready for batting practice And if we can put some technology behind it and actually see how hard and how fast that boss coming off his bat called Velo Exit, it's an extraordinary opportunity. And I would watch on my phone every day. The kids are phoned and iPads.

So if Aaron Judge is in your box every day at 4 4 30, I think you get a massive audience for that and really engage I would put cameras the umpires I would put cameras on the basis special sound effect I would just let it fly this year if you want to I think you maybe go with 27 28 man roster make sure that we do play these double headers seven games seven innings seven innings that we make sure that these young pitchers are still going to be like seven innings games.

I mean, they're thinking about it, right? Because that's a good way to get two games in one day. So you may want to expand the roster a little bit. So anything that's disruptive and not age, just let it fly. And I think what you'll find is that as much as you've been disruptive, you think is gonna be a just right.

And that's what NFL and that's what the NBA are doing and I think it would be an awesome awesome year and I got to tell you the reason why you do that is because we have to pay it back to the fans and it's a little bit more complicated and will be owners and the PA have to come to an agreement but I would just say to other lawyers put your pens down this year. As fiduciaries of the game, the shareholders, which are the fans, let them access, like let them into the bedroom, let them into the living room, the badding cages are the biggest assets we want to see them. Let the fans see the badding cages.

Oh man, I love those ideas. Also, just in this day and age and social media, allowing some of the players to be brands, Mike Trout shouldn't be able to go anywhere and people not know who he is. When I was a fan, people knew who A-Rod was. They knew Jeeter, they knew Rocket Climbers, right? They knew all the stars of the game and the NBA and these other sports have this advantage.

So I love that. I love those ideas. And I want to just stay on that topic for a minute because I was going to ask these about entrepreneurs in general. I happen to think this type of economy is favors the small guy. Most big economies when they're booming, big companies have an advantage when it's small like this. They're not as nimble.

So a lot of you want to put those out there. Maybe capital's type, but you can innovate. You can be disruptive to use your terminology right now as a smaller business person. With some of that same conceptual advice, be stuck, you give to entrepreneurs in general, like in this time, get a little disruptive, get innovative,

or what are your thoughts on that? Well, there's no question about it. And you and I talked last time, there's an opportunity that we're going to look at together. You have to understand that being an entrepreneur is like being a good poker player. You have to be able to play good cards well and bad cards

better. And what I mean by that is, where's the opportunity today? The stock market has never been lower in the last 10 years. There's a lot of volatility. There's a lot of fear in the streets. Warm buffet taught us. Be greedy when others are fearful when others are greedy. So what that means in today's day and age is to be able to calm your mind down and

getting your pocket. And there's more opportunities today than there were six months ago, six weeks ago, three weeks ago. And over the next six months, there's going to be some epic opportunities. And there's always going to be people that have wealthy and have liquidity or wealthy and have liquidity. So if you're able to bridge the gap and say okay, I know that Ed loves trophy properties I know that he likes hotels. I know he likes entertainment. I bought it

There's a great entertainment company that was trading for you know $10 million and for whatever reason I can get control of it for about three or four million dollars I'm gonna call Ed and say I just found a belt of six million dollars You can buy this at $40 cents a dollar. Would you be interested? Well two things are going to happen. Ed is going to say yes, thank you. I'm going to kiss you.

I'm going to buy it. And you make a nice commission. Or B, you're going to get some very valuable data that he's going to say no, I don't want to buy it. But here's why. And the why is the most important thing. Because now you're starting to build a relation with Ed by bringing him something he respects you because and thankfully you're bringing him something but be you're getting something in return of why not and then that

why not helps you go get what Ed really wants. That's how I would be thinking. Very, very good. I've been, I've talked to a lot of people, I've not heard that said that way Alex, really, really good stuff. I think sometimes people, a talked to a lot of people. I've not heard that said that way Alex. Really, really good stuff I think sometimes people, a couple things, you don't want to ask you a family question, but I'm curious a couple of I think people don't move forward when they're They have an idea like that is criticism Dealing with criticism. I know I've never even asked you this personally, but Since I've known who you were and since we've been friends, you get your share of criticism in your life, right? And anytime you're climbing in life, you're gonna get criticism, right?

Some of the stuff we do, you and I both in our lives, has been pretty self-imposed. Some of the stuff we've done is unfair. How have you dealt or what advice would you give to people on dealing with criticism? And some of that could be within their own family. They're trying to do something great. They're trying to be coming on to the North. You're crazy. It's not for our family.

What would you say about that? How do you deal with it? I'm curious. You know, this is a subject that I actually have a PhD in. And criticism and getting bored. So I'm like a world expert here. And I have a lot of experience. But you know, I think the best way for me to communicate and articulate that to you is twofold.

One, when I served the longest suspension in majorly baseball history for PDUs, I learned a lot of lessons. Now that could have gone one or two ways. I was fortunate that I took that opportunity to take full accountability for my mistakes and then to turn the lens inward and do a lot of work on myself. And what I realized then was that I needed to mend in a way, physically, mentally, and spiritually, because I had gone so hard with this battle

with Major League Baseball. And what I realized was, Alex pre-suspension and me post-suspension were two different things. The pre-suspension was, I wanted to be like a gladiator. I felt that being a champion was a more money, bigger contracts, home runs, blood, sweat and tears. And I thought that was like the winner. What I realized after that being a champion was, you know,

being loving at home with your family, having others around you be champions, being the mentor and at the mentee, and what I realized was that the number one key in my life was bringing levity and humor and humility to my life is when people criticize you and you beat them to the punch and you have self-deprecation and you don't take yourself so seriously, it sounds simple but it is a very powerful thing and I remember I would say before my suspension, well, Alex, you had a tough game and you shook out three times

and I would say, yeah, but my fourth of a time, I hit the ball hard. After I did my therapy and I realized, I gave myself some time to mature as an adult. I mean, look, I was in the major leagues just a few months after my high school prom. And I went on this incredible sprint at a very late age of 39, I served the suspension.

So it was like I got slapped hitting the head a little bit too late, right? But I made the best of it. And then post suspension, if you came to me and said, Alex Alex you had a Really tough game and you wrote for four I would say tough game. That was a brutal game. I struck three times I don't even know why you know Coaches put in me in there

But tomorrow's another day and I'm gonna come out and do the best I can and and it was so liberating to have a little fun and Have some levity and self-deprecation and what I realized was I would wake up in the morning and what's it called? PST. PTSD? That's how it was. I would wake up and I'm like, oh, man, the New York Post is going to blast me and nothing in the paper.

And I had a terrible game. And I want to realize is that, you know, our attitude determines altitude. And when we're comfortable in our own skin and we're able to have some levity and not take our shots with seriously, people would also give you a break. And that's an important factor. 150 shows, that's one of my favorites that I've ever heard on anything ever. That affected me.

Because I see you doing that too. What a beautiful answer. Speaking of that family, you brought it up. And I just wanna say this to you, kind of told you this privately, there but obviously you and I both know a lot of people that are successful and I admire success, but it doesn't, I don't know, it's, it's, it's part for the course in some case for me. And what I've observed about you and Jen both, it's a blended family that you're building together.

I so admire the way you are with your family. Both you and Jen from what I've observed. And one of the things Alex, it's very ironic that I noticed about you and I want to ask you about what you do to build strong family because everybody, you have a huge life, Alex, right? Jen has a huge life. Most of the people listening, they are very busy people as well with children in school and soccer games in their normal life. And it's ironic, brother.

I'm going to share this with you because I've not told you this privately. I've noticed two men in my life that did something I didn't do well enough as a dad. You're one of them. And ironically, and there's nothing to do with the fact that the other one was Kobe Bryant. Both of you, the week before Kobe passed away, I was with him at a volleyball and I happened to watch him walk out of the arena that we were in. We're at the end it was a 8 to 10 p.m. tournament. There were three matches left in this bigger arena and our daughters were playing it's 10 p.m. so there's only about

five dads left to survive today. Kobe was one of them and I watched him for some reason walk out with Gigi that day as other daughters. For some reason, I did, from the other end of the arena, I don't know why. And I watched how affectionate physically he was with his daughter, hugging her, kissing her. And I took note of it, Alex. Like I went, I love Bella,

but I don't know that I tell her or hug her or kiss her enough. Like just be affectionate enough. And I'm not kidding you, bro. When he did that, I thought of you, because of all the men I've known, I've watched you with both of your children and you're so loving with them.

And it looks to me like, almost intentionally so. It's not just I love you, but you're hugging and kissing and you're wonderful with these babies, man, these beautiful children of yours. Is that something you're sensitive because the way you grew up, you know, talk about that a minute, because I just so admired the way you built your family. And I wanted to just acknowledge you for that,

because there's nothing new at baseball or money. It's just as a dad. I've observed that. And I got to tell you, you know, thank you for that, and thank you for noticing, is the single most important thing in my life is my family and my faith. And I have a lot of faith in the good Lord.

I have a lot of faith in my family. But I got to tell you that growing up without a father, I think has inspired me to be a present father and to raise now four great, great, great children that we're so fortunate to have. But, you know, when you think about what is the ultimate championship, what does heaven look like for me? It was what we did last night.

I finished my last call at 11.30 a night. I come to my bedroom and I just think it's Jennifer and I have five kids in our bed and Jennifer sits right in the middle and we were watching. When we was that? Little women. We were watching little women and I was like, oh my gosh, let me just take a quick shower and I'm just going to jump in this party and we sat there and we watched the movie for like the next hour and I was asking all type of you know dumb questions because I was trying to catch up. They were halfway through They were all telling me to be quiet and I'm like this is what will real wealth looks like This is what real happiness looks like in the middle of this you know crisis to find

Happiness with love and respect from your family. There's nothing like it. I'm so happy for you, bro. I really am. That's beautiful. I want to hear that about you. So, and Jennifer, my observation too, just two people that are so loving with their children together, building such a beautiful family. So, congratulations. Okay, that's question.

And then anything you want to tell us that you're up to that we need to know about too, but there's a lot of people watching this and they're hearing about the success you have in your family. And the insights you've had through your humility and the self-deprecation and dealing with criticism and advice for entrepreneurs and, you know, advice from a Julie baseball.

There's a lot there that we've kind of unpacked in a little quick window here. But when I think of you the other thing I think of after your family life is a comeback. And in the last four or five years in every way shape sense and form you've come back and I know you're still coming back. I know you don't feel like you're all the way there yet. You still have other things you want to accomplish and achieve. Some of them are some huge things. But there's a lot of people right now because of what's going on. They're going to need to make a comeback. There's going to be a point here where they got to come back as a family. They've got to come back financially, emotionally, some of them physically. So what's the elements of a comeback? What advice

would you give for millions of people who are listed to this? Several hundred thousand that will watch it that are saying, I got to make a comeback. And Alex Rodriguez did a pretty good job of that. What would some of your advice be to them? How did you do that? I think, you know, confidence is a really big thing. And that's why I'm such an advocate of working on your set, what we're going on yourself,

what we're going on your set of skills, getting more educated. What made me a very good baseball player was, I had great fundamentals. People thought about the home runs or that, but you mentioned about being a source of an a third basement. I spend hours and hours physically and mentally always trying to hone my skills just like, you know, Bruce Lee, home to skills as a karate

expert or Roger Federer on the tennis court or Jordan in the basketball court. I felt that if you look at the great, great players, great athletes in the history of the game, when you look at the great, great players, great athletes in the history of the game, when you look at the great business people, they all have one thing in common, Steve Jobs, Warren Buffett, you know, Barry Sterlett, whoever these guys are, their fundamentals are off the charts, and while everyone looks at the big home runs and the big championships, the core of it is their, their smarter than you, but they usually have better fundamentals than you. So I always go back to that.

That is the core of anyone who's successful. You and I can, you know, someone sees, you know, you buy the house, I buy the nice house. But ultimately, if you take it all away, we have these fundamentals that are really strong. And the strongest fundamentals, the better you are. So that's number one, then is self-awareness. We're not gonna be good at everything. Like my superpower is baseball. I understand that very good.

I'm fairly good at business. But then you take me outside of that and then I'm gonna have to call my counterpart, Jennifer, who's really good at a lot of things. Well, I've seen you dance. I don't recommend you do a lot of that. Exactly. And I've been to some late night outfit changes that I want to recommend either. But, you know,

if I go to technology, I go to two or four kids. I mean, our boy Max, he's a wizard and he can just fix any computer like, you know, it's just unbelievable. So I think that's really self-awareness. Again, I go back to humility, not taking it so seriously. And to take small wins as big wins, because small wins add up. I always say don't think so big. Think about one step, one win. And one advice that I would give, and by the way, I'm not giving anyone advice, I'm just sharing ideas and nuggets that have worked for me and what hasn't worked for me. So I'm always very aware of

not giving anyone advice because that's not, I'm not in a position to give anyone advice, but I'd like sharing some of the principles that I've learned over the years. I live and dive by my list. I always have like a notebook, right? And I have like my 10 things to do. And then Me too. By the end of the day, I literally like everyone's a brighter computer. I have to write it down And when I'm done and I have all my check check check check man, I feel so good So good, and now there's one that I missed that I just wrote it over to the next day. And it's been great for me. I'm identical to the other.

I want to, I just want everyone I've been to just unpack two things he said there and then how Alex tell you were to find him now. Everybody, he said two things are the critical. I do the same thing. I have a written down to do this that I crossed them off. Why do I do that? I do that because it's an indication to me

that I'm intentionally doing things not everybody is willing to do and I'm tripping my identity and myself off and into believing. If I consistently do things other people aren't willing to do, I'm going to get things other people aren't going to get. And self confidence, everybody is the process of keeping the promises you make to yourself. And so that list is an indicator. I kept that promise, I kept that promise, I kept that promise, and that transformed self confidence. The other thing, when you see someone like Jennifer or Alex or in a much smaller way myself that has had success, they stack small wins because those small wins create momentum and momentum is a magnifier. I guarantee you, there's been a time in your life or

Jens or my were even sometimes go how did I get here? You know you wonder that and one of the things is momentum is a magnifier. You see that in baseball not every year. It's the best MLB team when the world's serious. It's the hottest pitching staff for the hottest bats, right? hockey. It's the hottest gold tender, right? So momentum can magnify average ordinary people into doing great things. And I know that at least in my case, I'm just average, but I've got momentum, I've built self-confidence, I've done so many of the things Alex talked about today, so if you speak about it in such a far more in depth and eloquent way, brother, this, I knew we would do good today.

I knew this would be awesome, but it exceeded my expectations big time. We're not, I want to take one thing that I think is important. I wanted to share with you because, when people think about my career, and what I'm going to tell you is about how to handle what I think is the toughest thing for any entrepreneur or any human being is how do you handle the word no or rejection. And when people think about my career, they think about all the big wins, right? The home runs, 2000 runs score, 2000 RBIs and numbers are fabulous, but they forget to

tell you that I'm fifth all time, fifth all time in the history of strikeouts. So that means, you know, I have a PhD in failing, but I also tell people I have a, a massage and getting back up. And that type of failure at that level, at that degree, with an average fan base of 40 or 50,000 people watching these strikeouts. That means there's only four people in the history of mankind. Let us struck out more than me. It brings me great pride to say that one of them is my good friend, Reggie Jackson. So that's a really good thing. I'll never catch him

there. But why I say that it is that you and I get told no more than the average person that'll be watching this because we take more chances. And what's interesting is the word no, a rejection can destroy our kids, can destroy the next generation, can destroy someone who may be fragile. To me, the word no is the greatest vitamin, energizer, that anyone can give me. It doesn't mean a damn thing to me. If someone says no to me, it's like, okay, work that much harder. It reminds me where I come from. It reminds me of being a boys and girls alum.

So it's Jennifer. It reminds me of a single mother who had two jobs. No is like the greatest, you one step closer to yes, alum so it was Jennifer it reminds me of a single mother who had two jobs No is like the greatest you one step closer to yes to win to a championship And I just want to remind people out there that nine out of ten entrepreneurs fail in their ideas with entrepreneurship But it's those ones that get up dust themselves up get back to back and say this time I'm gonna do it and if you fail get back to back and say this time, I'm gonna do it. And if you fail, get back up again. Maybe fail, get back up again. Trust me. Fifth all time in the history of the game, and I just keep getting back up.

Wow. I encourage everyone to just believe in themselves and go for it. That's a powerful brother. The fact that, because that's what you see, you see 3000 hits and 700 jacks basically. And you forget to get there. It took Fifth all time in case that's Awesome stuff. Jeez. That's good Not that they don't know where to get you

But if you want it someone listening to this to go find you if they've been living under a rock somewhere Where should they go find more of you every single day? Well, you got a page six every day and you'll find me there. No. No. No. No. No. No.

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No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. my podcast, Barstool, and I would love to have you one day. You'll be amazing. You have so much to offer.

And that's it. I'm out and about, and I'm usually around my kids somewhere. Brother, I'm so grateful for taking that. I'm gonna take time now. Jennifer reminds me, I'm gonna take talk. Are you dancing on there? A rod 13.

Take talk. A rod 13. And if they go, is there other dance videos? Because that's where literally going this minute click off the podcast guys go over there Yes, but watch at your own risk That's awesome. Thank you so much brother. Hey everybody speaking of that. I run the max out two-minute drill every day on Instagram I want to engage with you. I give giveaways every day we pick win every day I got used to make a comment or make a comment on people's comments

or comment every day. We pick winners. Come see me speak, my book. One on one coaching for me, fly on the check. Whatever we do, we pick winners every week and give them cool stuff. And I'd love to engage with you more. So God bless you, everybody.

Alex, thanks so much, brother. You got it, man. Magnus out every day. Take care. Yeah. Yeah. This is the end money show. Yeah.