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Coffee With Kenny | Be Careful, Winning Can Destroy You · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Halloween everybody. How come the witch could not get
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  pregnant because her husband had a Halloweenie?
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  It's Halloween everybody. Today's subject is winning.
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  It struck me odd that Tom Brady, one of the greatest football
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  players of all time, was doing TV.
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  It it it's strict. It It strikes me odd that Kevin
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  Harvick is is doing TV. It it strikes me odd that the
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  greatest athletes of all time, they win everything and they go
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  on to do TV or they go on to do do something own, own car
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  dealerships. John John Elway out there in
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  Denver, you know, owns a lot of car dealerships.
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  My brother Rusty, one of the greats of all time, Rusty
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  Wallace, you know, 1989 NASCAR Winston Cup champion, 55 wins.
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  He's got 9 car dealerships, he's building motorcycles.
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  He's, you know, doing good things.
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  So the subject is this there. There was a saying years ago,
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  winning isn't everything. It's the only thing.
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  As the years go by, I realize that's not true.
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  It sounds good when you're young.
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  When you're young, you're like, oh, I gotta win.
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  I'll do anything to win. Winning.
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  It's not everything. It's the only thing as you grow
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  older like me, I'll, I'll never forget.
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  I've sit, I've sit here in Saint Louis and I've gone down the
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  Bush Stadium and I've witnessed the Saint Louis Cardinals win 2
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  World Series championships, 2006, 2011.
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  And you spend all year long fighting the good fight.
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  And then when you win it all, you realize, oh, I still got to
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  go to work. There's no grand explosion.
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  And it, it strikes me odd, that's the, that's the phrase
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  here, that all these great athletes, they do it all.
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  They do it all. And in the end, they just still
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  go find another job and do something.
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  They've got plenty money, but now they're just looking for
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  something to do the the Chicago Cubs, their fans, you know, I
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  got a lot of friends up in Chicago and, and, you know,
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  they're, they are our friendly rivalry.
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  And I sit there and I watch the Yankees have a lot of errors
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  last night. And they they lost the World
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  Series because they weren't good enough.
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  They're a great team. But but they lost and they did
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  not deserve to win because they created too many errors.
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  I'm a baseball guy. I know all about baseball.
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  So I told my friends in Chicago, you know, when they finally won
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  the World Series after 100 years, I think it was 103 years.
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  Respond right here. I think the Cubs, you know, God
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  roughed them up, made them make, made them wait 103 years.
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  So I told some of my friends up there, I said, be careful now.
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  And I, and I'm serious, I said this.
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  If my buddy John said Tony's listening right now, I probably
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  didn't tell John, but but I told some of my friends, I said when
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  the Cubs win the World Series, you're going to realize a day or
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  two later that's all there is to it.
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  You're still going to go to work.
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  They still going to send your bills and it's just something
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  that happens. But there's no grand explosion.
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  There's there's no euphoric situations.
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  It's kind of that it's kind of like 4th of July.
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  You light a bottle rocket up and it goes, fizzles out.
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  So here's the point. The point is this phrase that I
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  learned, be careful, competition will kill you.
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  Be careful, competition will kill you.
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  So the whole time you're competing, you're like, you
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  know, you feel like if if you win that you will be able to
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  solve World Peace. We have fun around town here.
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  You know, us local dirt racers and that's all we are now.
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  We try to make, you know, a mountain out of a molehill.
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  We, we try to think if we win the feature on Saturday night at
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  Pevely that Oh my God, we're millionaires.
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  You know, we go down or we get our $700, get our trophy.
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  And I put those some bitches all around the shop.
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  And the reason I put those trophies are all around the shop
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  is because my, I like a good backdrop for my sponsors.
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  And plus I'm a little bit of a smart ass.
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  You know, people have roughed me up.
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  You know, I, I got, I got some issues I'm working through
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  specifically, I never won a Cup race.
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  Now, I won nine Xfinity races and got some good stats, but I
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  never won a Cup race. And that bothers me.
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  That pisses me off. It's kind of like Mark Martin,
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  never win in a championship. We will get over it.
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  We're fine. We're fine.
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  OK. The reason I got all those
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  trophies on display up there is is so when people go, hey,
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  Wallace, how many dirt races have you won?
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  It's like, I don't know, count all the trophies.
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  The bottom line is competition will kill you.
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  Be careful with competition thinking that it's going to
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  solve your life problems. I've learned that competition is
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  something to do. If you can do it and make a
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  living at it, that's that's awesome.
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  But every one of my friends that have won everything and they've
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  won championships, I've learned so much towards the end of my
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  life here. I have the greatest of all time.
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  Here's key. I have the greatest of all time.
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  They come up to me and they've won championships.
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  They've won multiple championships, 3040 races, but
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  it comes so easy to them. You know what they asked me,
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  Herman, how are you so happy? Why are you so happy?
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  I look at them and I say, you know what?
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  I tell them this. I say I will.
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  I would cut off that bad pinky. They got smashed in a door in
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  Rolla, MO. My brother Rusty and Mike were
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  fighting and one of the doors opened up and I went to go in
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  the house and one of them slammed the other door and it
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  destroyed that pinky. I would cut that mother pinky
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  off if I could have won One Cup race.
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  About 10 years ago, my mom said something to me.
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  She goes Ken Hun, I know it bothers you that you never want
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  a Cup race, but God gave you your due later in life and it is
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  true now I'm OK with it. I truly am.
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  I was kind of acting now what I'd like to won a cup race yes,
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  but I'm using myself in his example.
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  Here's the bottom line, be careful everybody competition
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  will kill you because the best Tom Brady 7 times.
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  Oh, it's great you went on the Super Bowls, but he got a
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  divorce and he's on TV and the beat goes on.
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  So competition will not solve all your problems.
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  It just because you win an old dirt race, pays 50 grand to win
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  while that money's gone, that's gone.
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  I sure like winning. I do win a lot, but later that
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  night it's just over. Do not judge yourself worth
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  through the way that race car runs or your competitors.
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  It's a tough lesson to learn. Respond right here.