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Pandered to the audience member. a more responsible, genuinely conservative lawmaker would have answered the question asked of him by saying something like this. impeachment requires an impeachable offense. the president has done many things i disagree, but that doesn t mean he has done anything impeachment. he is the elected president and i m an elected senator. we each have to fight for what we believe and let voters decide how we re doing. impeachment is not a political weapon. it seems like someone needs to be the grown-up in the room, nicole. you worked with john mccain who got to be a grown-up a lot, when he was facing off against people who would talk badly against then senator obama. where the grown-ups nowadays? the point that pete makes that is so important for all republicans on the national stage is we can be as tough as we want, but do it with intellectual honesty. that s the test that some republicans are failing. the test that ted cruz is failing isn t toughness, isn t ....
The first people you go to are probably your parents. that foundation of toughness that you get from them of doing things the right way and having things in the proper perspective and going to work every day and being prepared when you get there. one of the things i love you write in the book is you say you can learn to be tough. i think there s this perception that people are born tough. they re gritty. they re scrappy. you say you can teach yourself to be tough. i don t think there s any question. nobody s born tough. coach k., that s one of the things in the book that he emphasizes. we re not born tough. and toughness is contagious. when you re around people that are willing to do tough things, that will dive on the floor for a loose ball, that will step in front of an offensive player and take a charge, grant hill talked a lot about that. some of the guys that are perceived as being tough in the nba, they re not willing to step in there and take a charge. near not willing to di ....
Couple years ahead of me. a woman named tamara. she said, are you ready? i think so. i showed her everything i had. she said, do you know where to sit? i had no idea where to sit. and i started thinking about, if i went in she walked me through the whole thing about the logistics. this is what s going to happen. this is how you put something in evidence. i would have had no clue. and it would have thrown me off. and it would have been a problem. and she was i thought that showed a tremendous amount of toughness, to think outside of herself and just her own job and help a teammate. and toughness is also recognizing when recognizing when you need help. exactly. exactly. that s exactly right. all right. thanks so much. willie, this is a great book. before we let him go, predict national title. who do you like? duke looks pretty good. they haven t been beaten when ryan kelly is in there. indiana, kansas, gonzaga. byer? because they ve got an nba front line. toughness ....
When they started getting really good because i kept hearing oh, they ve got this great freshman that s coming in. he s only going to play one year. then he s going to go. why invest in that? and that happened on, like, two kentucky teams in a row. and finally it was like, you know what? i ll just wait for baseball to start up because why follow a team because they never switch teams. yeah. you go in and you start cheering for a team, you know, that this team you re cheering for is only going to be around one year. that s a great point because you can t fall in love with a team like you used to. when we went to college, guys came in as freshmen and left as seniors. that s rare. you don t have the great players that stick around to be juniors and seniors. you don t have junior and senior lottery picks anymore. you say players are great this year, this era, much better. but talk about toughness. you write a lot about toughness in your book. are they as tough as they once were? ....
Concept of toughness in college basketball. it s not about being a bully or physically being tough and knocking somebody around and beating your chest after you do something. it s more about the everyday stuff that you re willing to do. are you willing to prepare to put the time in to prepare? do you concentrate? are you hard to play against and easy to play with? the great teammates. those are the tough guys. sort of the everyday guys. and when i wrote the article, i got feedback that i couldn t believe from all over the world. from coaches, players, teachers, people from nasa, soldiers saying, you need to write more about this. i started talking to my friends. i sought out people like mia hamm and guys that i played with and played against, coaches like bill self, tom izzo, coach k., roy williams, the like and really investigated it and came up with this concept in the book. and it really seemed to resonate with people. nobody s tough alone. we re not born tough, but we can all be to ....