In this episode of “Shooting It Straight,” hosts Randy Black and Coach Jim Clayton delve into a powerful story of resilience and determination. Jim shares his personal journey from a life-threatening accident at the age of 12, where he broke multiple vertebrae and faced the possibility of never walking again, to overcoming the odds and finding a new path in life. This episode is part of a series on resilience, focusing on the mindset, grit, and faith required to bounce back from adversity. Jim’s story is not just about physical recovery but also about the mental strength and perseverance that shaped his life and career.
Listeners are taken through Jim’s harrowing experience, from the accident to his recovery process, and how it ultimately led him to a successful career in basketball coaching. The episode emphasizes the importance of mindset and the power of believing in oneself, even when faced with seemingly insurmountable challenges. Randy and Jim discuss the life lessons learned through adversity and how these experiences can shape one’s journey. This episode is a testament to the human spirit’s ability to overcome and thrive despite life’s toughest obstacles.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Bam son!
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Coach Jim Clayton: This is Shoot It Straight, the podcast where life lessons don’t come sugar-coated and excuses get bitched.
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Randy Black: I’m Randy Black, podcast guy, professional question asker, and apparently
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Randy Black: The only one here who doesn’t yell pam, son, in public.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Well, we’re working on that, Randy.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I’m Jim Clayton, coach, mentor, motivator, and the guy who still thinks a whistle may be the best motivational tool known to man.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Each week we’re
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Randy Black: Taking what Jim’s learned from the court, the drills, the discipline, the drive, and translating it into real world success.
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Coach Jim Clayton: That’s right.
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Coach Jim Clayton: This ain’t just about basketball.
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Coach Jim Clayton: It’s about showing up when life press is full court.
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Coach Jim Clayton: It’s about pushing through when the clocks
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Coach Jim Clayton: Ticking down.
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Randy Black: If you’re looking for fluff, well, you might just want to ride the bench.
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Coach Jim Clayton: We’re here to help you believe bigger, achieve louder, and motivate strong.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So buckle up and whatever you do, keep shooting it straight.
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Randy Black: Bam, son
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Randy Black: Welcome back to Shooting It Straight.
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Randy Black: I’m Randy Black here with my co-host, Coast Jim Clayton.
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Randy Black: And we’re at the SportsCity U Studio in Hurricane, West Virginia.
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Randy Black: Picture this.
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Randy Black: You’re a teenager.
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Randy Black: You’re full of dreams.
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Randy Black: You’re living your life to its fullest.
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Randy Black: And in one split second, it may be over.
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Randy Black: A broken neck, doctors saying you may never walk again.
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Randy Black: For most people, that would be the end of the story.
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Randy Black: But not for my co-host Jim Clayton.
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Randy Black: You know what his response was?
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Randy Black: BAM, son!
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Randy Black: And he wrote a new chapter for his life.
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Randy Black: This episode is part of our series on resilience.
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Randy Black: That deep down determination to get back up.
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Randy Black: when my life knocks you flat to the ground.
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Randy Black: We’ve talked about what it means to push through adversity, to find strength when the odds are stacked against you.
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Randy Black: But today you’re going to hear it from someone who lived it.
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Randy Black: Jim’s story isn’t just about injury and recovery.
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Randy Black: It’s about mindset, grit, faith, and the kind of bounce back that shapes a lifetime.
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Randy Black: From nearly paralyzed to playing ball, coaching athletes, and teaching life lessons, this is resilience in real time.
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Randy Black: So stick around through the episode because you’re not going to want to miss it.
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Randy Black: So Jim, take us back to that moment in time.
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Randy Black: What do you remember about the day that this happened?
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Coach Jim Clayton: Well, it was just pretty much an ordinary day.
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Coach Jim Clayton: It was October 17th, a Thursday.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I was twelve years old.
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Coach Jim Clayton: My birthday’s October twenty second, so I was almost ready to turn thirteen.
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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, it’s that time of the year when, you know, you got Halloween, leaves falling off the trees, all kinds of stuff.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Well, you know, hey, I wasn’t the perfect little angel.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I mean I was always getting into stuff.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I was doing stuff I was I was doing stuff I wasn’t supposed to do, you know.
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Coach Jim Clayton: But none of it at that point was what I would consider life threatening
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Coach Jim Clayton: So that particular day, we had built a big stock of leaves, and the leaves were probably, oh, they were high.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And right down the street from where I actually live now and up the street from where I grew up, there was a barbecue pit that a person had built.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And it was at maybe five feet off the ground, maybe six feet at the most.
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Randy Black: Okay.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So we had climbed up there on top of that thing.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And you know, there was a stock in the middle where the the smoke would come out.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And we were that that thing was so high
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Coach Jim Clayton: We would do flips off of it, jump in it, because it was really cushioned.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I mean it was ten feet of cushion.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Well we’ve been doing it
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Coach Jim Clayton: And you know, the lady next to you goes, you better quit that, boys.
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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, somebody’s gonna get hurt.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah, we didn’t listen.
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Coach Jim Clayton: You know what I mean?
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Coach Jim Clayton: Go back in the house.
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Coach Jim Clayton: You know what I mean?
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Coach Jim Clayton: We we got this
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Coach Jim Clayton: Well, that’s what I thought.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So I got up there, we’ve been doing this for dates.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I’ve done this hundreds of times off this.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I got up there and my feet were kind of on the sides of the s the the the barbecue and there was that that pipe in the middle and all of a sudden I was standing there and somehow my foot
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Coach Jim Clayton: got went down in that pipe.
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Randy Black: Yeah.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And went down, I leaned forward and my hands went back
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Coach Jim Clayton: And before I knew it, I was going diving face down like underdog.
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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, had my hands back like this?
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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah
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Coach Jim Clayton: Bam!
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Coach Jim Clayton: I hit my neck, snapped that thing back, flipped over, and I was face down in the leaves
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Coach Jim Clayton: Couldn’t move.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Couldn’t breathe.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I mean it was like, okay.
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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, total paralysis from the neck down.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And I laid there and I had leaves in my mouth.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I mean it was all over the place.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And my buddies, they’re thinking, oh, he’s just faking
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Randy Black: Right.
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Coach Jim Clayton: They just stood there and looked.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So finally, it’s kind of weird.
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Coach Jim Clayton: About 30 seconds.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Seemed like an eternity.
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Coach Jim Clayton: It’s kind of like
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Coach Jim Clayton: Being at your house and your power goes off, then it comes right back on.
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Coach Jim Clayton: That’s what happened to me.
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Coach Jim Clayton: All of a sudden I could feel.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I could move.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So I rolled over.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Whew.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Now I can breathe.
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Coach Jim Clayton: They go, man, what’s God?
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Coach Jim Clayton: I said, man, man, man, I’ve hurt my neck, man.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I can’t move.
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Coach Jim Clayton: They go, you’re just faking.
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Coach Jim Clayton: If I could get up right now, I’d show you who’s faking.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And ’cause I busted him right in the mouth.
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Coach Jim Clayton: But I laid down.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So finally I go, Whew, well what’s every young p person that’s ever been hurt?
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Coach Jim Clayton: What’s their first thought?
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Coach Jim Clayton: I gotta get home.
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Randy Black: Yeah.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Gotta go home.
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Randy Black: Been there.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So I said, boys, help me up
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Coach Jim Clayton: So they helped me up.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I stood up.
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Coach Jim Clayton: My bicycle was right over to the side of that.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Had one of those swin, little 16-inch, had the big handlebars, you know, had the banana seat, you know, so I got on the bike.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Broken neck.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Didn’t know the severity of it.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Well I’ll share with you that later.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And I rode my bike home.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Wasn’t very far, maybe half a block
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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Pulled in the driveway, my mom was standing at the kitchen window, I’ll never forget it.
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Coach Jim Clayton: She was cooking spaghetti.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So I parked the bike, went in the house.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Slowly.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Deck I mean I couldn’t move it.
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Coach Jim Clayton: If I moved it one
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Coach Jim Clayton: Just anything.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I can’t really describe the pain.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And I have a high threshold for pain.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I’ll go in, Mom
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Coach Jim Clayton: She looked at me, I had stuff all over me.
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Coach Jim Clayton: She goes, you’ve been fighting again.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I said, no, I’ve hurt my neck.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I said, I fell into this leaf pit accidentally and I’ve hurt my neck.
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Coach Jim Clayton: My dad goes, oh, you just sprained it.
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Coach Jim Clayton: You’ll be all right
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Coach Jim Clayton: I said, well, okay.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So I went back to my bedroom.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I laid down.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And I laid there.
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Coach Jim Clayton: My mom says, time to eat.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So I couldn’t get up.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I had to roll out a bit.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Got myself up.
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Coach Jim Clayton: My house at that time was like a maze, but I could hold on to both sides of the wall
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Coach Jim Clayton: Kind of went down.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So I remember going down through there slowly.
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Coach Jim Clayton: By that time my neck was swelled up really bit.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Couldn’t even see my neck.
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Coach Jim Clayton: It was like
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Coach Jim Clayton: Just that big.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And I forget, I turned a corner to go up the hallway to the kitchen.
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Coach Jim Clayton: My mom stuck her neck out and looked at me.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I said, and I was kinda dragging my foot.
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Coach Jim Clayton: She goes, We’re going to hospital right now
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Coach Jim Clayton: I said, okay.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So we got in the car, went to the hospital.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.
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Coach Jim Clayton: All Cabo Huntington was was like a U.
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Coach Jim Clayton: We went in the mercy’s room.
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Coach Jim Clayton: My mom says, my son’s hurt his neck.
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Coach Jim Clayton: They said, have a seat in the waiting room.
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Coach Jim Clayton: She’s an Italian woman.
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Coach Jim Clayton: She uh wasn’t really going for that.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Right.
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Coach Jim Clayton: She said he hurt his neck.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.
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Coach Jim Clayton: He needs to be set down, laid down, I mean, put a support on your neck, can’t move his neck
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Coach Jim Clayton: So finally they took me back here and laid me down.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Doctor comes in and uh, you know.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Now they couldn’t tell me at that time what happened.
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Coach Jim Clayton: They just know there’s a break in there because all the fluid and everything they couldn’t really tell what it was.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Right
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Coach Jim Clayton: And I and the crazy part is I had never cried till they told me, well, you’re gonna have to spend the night, obviously.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And that’s when I lost it, because I’d never really been in the hospital.
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Randy Black: Right.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And uh except for being born.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And so they took me upstairs and when I landed, I kind of broke my jaw.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Here it looked, I landed right on my jaw.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So that wasn’t feeling real good.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So they put me in his tracks when he put it on my chin.
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Coach Jim Clayton: That wasn’t feeling good.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh I can imagine.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So I was like hurting from my neck, my chin, my jaw
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Coach Jim Clayton: Everything.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So I guess they gave me something, kinda knocked me out a little bit, pain medication.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So the next day they come in and, you know, they try to do x-rays again.
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Coach Jim Clayton: It wasn’t for about a week or two that they finally figured out what was wrong
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Coach Jim Clayton: And I had dislocated my atlas and I had broken my C12345.
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Randy Black: Oh wow.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I broke a mole
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Coach Jim Clayton: Those people don’t survive one.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Or if they do, they’re totally paralyzed from the neck down.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And so
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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, I I’m thinking, okay, I’m laying there.
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Coach Jim Clayton: They go, well, we know you got a broken jaw.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So now we’re going to change the traction.
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Coach Jim Clayton: We’re going to put what’s called Crestfield Tongs.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So they actually went into my skull above my head with a with almost like a screwdriver.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And they started grinding holes in my skull.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I could hear it going, I was going like, what in the world?
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Coach Jim Clayton: So it ain’t on numb now cause you only got skin in school.
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Coach Jim Clayton: That hurt like crazy.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I’m sure.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And I was only 12
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Coach Jim Clayton: And so then they stuck those tongs in those holes.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And then when they put the sandbags over the bed, the pressure kept them in.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So now I didn’t have anything on my jaw.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So I could move it, okay?
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Coach Jim Clayton: And I just, I was basically laying there.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And where the paralysis, where the where the pressure was on my spine
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Coach Jim Clayton: One side of my body, my thing was my right side, my my hands started to draw up.
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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, like I was in a paralyzed part, certain parts
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Coach Jim Clayton: And I thought, oh no, this ain’t good.
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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, and I didn’t know that and I hoped that over time when they relieved that pressure and that swelling went down and everything happened, that everything would go back.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And it did.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Thankfully, by the grace of God, he was looking out for him.
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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, and so basically I just lay there
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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, I couldn’t get up, I couldn’t go to the bathroom, I couldn’t do anything.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I was just laying looking at the ceiling.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I think, well, that’s ain’t good.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I can’t watch TV or nothing
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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So the TV was over on the wall.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So they brought in these things, which was awesome.
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Coach Jim Clayton: They c they were prism glasses.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I put them on
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Coach Jim Clayton: I looked up, but the prisms looked at the TV so I could watch TV.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I was looking at the ceiling, but watched the TV on the wall.
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Coach Jim Clayton: It was wow.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And so that’s the way I was for months.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And back then they said, well, we’re going to, you know, see what’s going on here.
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Coach Jim Clayton: We’re going to let you go home in an ambulance.
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Coach Jim Clayton: But we’re gonna they didn’t have things called a halo.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Right.
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Coach Jim Clayton: They had cast, body cast.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Yes.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Now you can imagine I’ll send you a picture.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh I’ve seen it.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.
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Coach Jim Clayton: The only thing that showed was my face
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Coach Jim Clayton: Top my head, my ears, and had a hole in my belly so when I ate, it would stick out.
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Coach Jim Clayton: The rest of me was in cast, 80 pounds of it
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Coach Jim Clayton: Now I didn’t weigh much.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I maybe it was 120.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.
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Coach Jim Clayton: 80 pounds.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Now 200.
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Coach Jim Clayton: That wasn’t good.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So he let me go home, crawled around a little bit, finally got up, said I’m gonna get back to walking a little bit, because I haven’t been in there that long, so I haven’t forgotten how to walk
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Coach Jim Clayton: And so I started walking around a little bit, and it was right about Thanksgiving, into Thanksgiving.
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Coach Jim Clayton: He called me on the phone.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I said, you got to get back to the hospital immediately.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, any particular reason why?
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Coach Jim Clayton: Yes.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Those vertebras, they were so broken, they’re healing, but they could slip at any time.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And if they slip, they’re gonna sever your spinal column.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And you might not be as lucky to Sectum said, I’m on my way.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So I go back over there.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?
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Coach Jim Clayton: Didn’t know what that journey was going to be like.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So they put me back
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Coach Jim Clayton: On the be in the bed.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And oh no.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Here we go again.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Grind.
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Coach Jim Clayton: They put two more holes in my head
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Coach Jim Clayton: Put those tongs back in there so they could strengthen that up.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Well, they realized that wasn’t gonna happen.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So they go, We’re gonna have to fuse your neck.
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Coach Jim Clayton: We’re gonna have to do a spinal fuse.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Now they hadn’t done one of these in Huntington.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Now you know this yeah I was twelve, so that was nineteen sixty seven.
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Coach Jim Clayton: You do the math.
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Coach Jim Clayton: That’s been a few years.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So they took this bone off my hip.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Which they didn’t tell me they were going to do that.
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Coach Jim Clayton: They don’t even do that anymore.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Now they use cadaver bone.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And they don’t they cut my neck in the back the back, which looks like a fuse box.
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Coach Jim Clayton: They don’t even do that anymore.
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Coach Jim Clayton: They cut you here at the base of your neck and move everything over, go in from the front.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Well, they fuse that together.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And then once they fused it together, I didn’t have any vertebrates anymore.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So I laid there.
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Coach Jim Clayton: It’s like a broken bone.
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Coach Jim Clayton: You can’t speed up the healing process.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And I laid there.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And I laid there.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And I laid there for for m months.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I remember Christmas they took the stitches out.
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Coach Jim Clayton: That was a highlight.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Boy, my hip was killing me.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I rolled over on that soccer.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Ah!
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Coach Jim Clayton: That was worse than any pain I think I’ve ever had.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So for about a month
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Coach Jim Clayton: I was like a pen cushion for, you know, where they gave me pain medicine.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I’d go shoulder, shoulder, butt, butt, shoulder, shoulder.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I got so many shots that I had scams
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Coach Jim Clayton: That’s how much I did.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So I don’t even remember that month.
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Coach Jim Clayton: That January, don’t even remember.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So I came to it a little bit, you know what I mean?
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Coach Jim Clayton: They go, well
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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, it’s getting better, but we’re not sure.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So I lay there and lay there and lay there.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Then they come up and say, okay, we’re gonna put that chaos back on.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I said, oh gosh, not that thing.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So this time had to go down, he put that cast back on me.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I lay there, I lay there.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Well I was a bony I was like 90 pounds with an 80 pound cast
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Coach Jim Clayton: Bones.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So I was laying there and that bone, that cast lay right on my bone, right where that scar was.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And it cut off the circulation.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So I caught the flu of all things in the hospital.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Couldn’t breathe nothing, couldn’t you know, and so where I’d lay there and had to cut off that’s called a decubulus.
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Coach Jim Clayton: That’s the size of a quarter
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Coach Jim Clayton: Everybody come and go, man, something smells.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I couldn’t smell anything.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So my mom I’d roll over a little bit on my side.
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Coach Jim Clayton: She’d rub my back in her a little bit.
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Coach Jim Clayton: But she put her hand right in that thing.
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Coach Jim Clayton: She pulled that out and she about
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Coach Jim Clayton: threw up, ran out of the room.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I said, oh my God.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So they come in, cut that cast off a little bit, pulled that out.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Those guys, that smell, I must have knocked them out of the room
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Coach Jim Clayton: So then I’m thinking, okay, come on.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Now it’s even getting it’s getting better.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Got a broken neck, I got a fused spine, I got the cubus.
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Coach Jim Clayton: How are you gonna fix that?
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Coach Jim Clayton: They say, well
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Coach Jim Clayton: We’re gonna do what we call a pinch graft.
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Coach Jim Clayton: That’s where they go in the back of your legs and take it, take it a skin graft, they go in there and pinch skin.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Look like a tic-tac-toe board
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Coach Jim Clayton: Now you talk about something that hurt, you know, just pulling the skin right out like that.
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Coach Jim Clayton: They put it in a culture, they let it grow, then they put that on that.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And then that’s how it healed.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So they said, we’re not gonna let you go home until it heals.
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Coach Jim Clayton: That’s another month.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So it’s been three months.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So they finally go, okay, you go home.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Well, I haven’t walked
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Coach Jim Clayton: You know?
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Coach Jim Clayton: Right.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And they go, we’re gonna take you home in the ambulance.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Put you in the bed.
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Coach Jim Clayton: You’re gonna you crawl around the bed.
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Coach Jim Clayton: You’ll
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Coach Jim Clayton: They didn’t have physical therapy.
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Coach Jim Clayton: They didn’t have all the stuff they had now either.
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Coach Jim Clayton: You just suck it up, get it done.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So I later I said, fine, man, I’ve had enough of this
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Coach Jim Clayton: So I said, I’m walking to the bathroom.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I’m going to use the bathroom.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Legit.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Something we all take for granted until you can’t do it
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Randy Black: Yeah.
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Coach Jim Clayton: ‘Cause you’re laying bur you know, you’re laying horizontally, not vertically.
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Randy Black: So so do you say it’s like that was your turning point there?
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Coach Jim Clayton: Hey, I said I’m go.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So I stepped off that bed.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I had my hand on my dresser.
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Coach Jim Clayton: My leg was like, you know, I’m like a baby giraffe.
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Randy Black: Yeah.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Basically.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And so it took me like 30 minutes to go ten feet.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I was gone.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So I got five to the bathroom.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I said, Mom, she goes, what’s going on?
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Coach Jim Clayton: I said, I’m in the bathroom.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I’m taking a pee for the first time standing up in four or five months.
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Coach Jim Clayton: She comes running in there.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I said, oh Lord.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I said, man, man, it’s going to take me another 30 minutes to get back.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So I went back.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I finally got there.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Jumped up there.
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Coach Jim Clayton: You’d have thought I ran a marathon.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Well then my feet got bruises on them, you know, because I ain’t had all that weight on there.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I got that cast on.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So I said, I told her, I said, go get me some Chuck Taylors
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Coach Jim Clayton: That was the shoe.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And I said, I need about eleven.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Because I want you to stack as many Dr.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Schultz pads as you can get in there.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Because I’m not going back in that bed
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Coach Jim Clayton: And that’s how I started walking.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And I taught myself how to walk again.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And so eventually, you know, I said, okay.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And then it got to summer
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Coach Jim Clayton: And they called me, said, you come back, I need you to come back to the hospital.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I go, okay.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So I got in the car.
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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, I was sitting like this.
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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, I couldn’t put my chin down.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Right
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Coach Jim Clayton: And they took it back and they cut that cast off.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Woo!
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Coach Jim Clayton: That was a great day.
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Randy Black: Yeah.
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Coach Jim Clayton: They lifted that thing off and that fresh air coming in there.
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Coach Jim Clayton: How are you taking a shower?
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Coach Jim Clayton: You know what I mean?
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Coach Jim Clayton: I took a bath, you know, sponge bath, whatever.
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00:18:49,620 –> 00:19:00,820
Coach Jim Clayton: And they lifted that thing up, they fitted me with a brace, went under my chin, had two metal rods, it was a chest plate, had shoulder pads, went on the back, but I could move my arms, you know, and stuff.
418
00:19:00,820 –> 00:19:02,980
Coach Jim Clayton: And it only weighed like a couple of pounds.
419
00:19:02,980 –> 00:19:04,180
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.
420
00:19:03,660 –> 00:19:04,940
Coach Jim Clayton: And I’ll never forget that.
421
00:19:04,940 –> 00:19:08,860
Coach Jim Clayton: They took my hand and they’d raised me up.
422
00:19:08,860 –> 00:19:11,100
Coach Jim Clayton: For the first time, I sat up.
423
00:19:11,100 –> 00:19:14,780
Coach Jim Clayton: Every vertebrae in my back went crack, crack, crack, crack, crack, crack.
424
00:19:15,700 –> 00:19:19,060
Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, what a what a relief.
425
00:19:19,060 –> 00:19:21,860
Randy Black: All that decompression from all that weight that was on my gosh.
426
00:19:21,860 –> 00:19:22,900
Coach Jim Clayton: And I was dizzy.
427
00:19:22,900 –> 00:19:23,780
Coach Jim Clayton: You know what I mean?
428
00:19:23,780 –> 00:19:24,980
Coach Jim Clayton: Like, woo.
429
00:19:24,980 –> 00:19:25,620
Coach Jim Clayton: And so
430
00:19:26,620 –> 00:19:31,420
Coach Jim Clayton: They did that and he said, now I could take that off when I slept.
431
00:19:31,420 –> 00:19:33,420
Coach Jim Clayton: And I could take it off when I took a shower.
432
00:19:33,420 –> 00:19:35,740
Coach Jim Clayton: I said, oh Lord, I get to take a shower.
433
00:19:35,460 –> 00:19:38,900
Coach Jim Clayton: So went home first thing that took that thing off, took a shower.
434
00:19:38,900 –> 00:19:41,380
Coach Jim Clayton: I never seen so much dead skin at the bottom of that shower.
435
00:19:41,380 –> 00:19:41,940
Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, I’m sure.
436
00:19:42,020 –> 00:19:43,140
Coach Jim Clayton: You can’t even imagine.
437
00:19:43,140 –> 00:19:47,380
Coach Jim Clayton: And then I got to go get a haircut, ’cause they’d shaved my head here, done this, done that.
438
00:19:47,380 –> 00:19:49,620
Coach Jim Clayton: I had about five or six different
439
00:19:49,980 –> 00:19:51,260
Coach Jim Clayton: levels of hair now.
440
00:19:51,260 –> 00:19:51,500
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.
441
00:19:51,660 –> 00:19:53,340
Coach Jim Clayton: Probably would be in style now.
442
00:19:53,340 –> 00:19:59,020
Coach Jim Clayton: Probably so I got it cleaned up and everything and then, you know, I could go get the swimming pump.
443
00:19:58,840 –> 00:20:01,080
Coach Jim Clayton: So I could walk around, I could swim.
444
00:20:01,080 –> 00:20:03,320
Coach Jim Clayton: That helped me build everything back.
445
00:20:03,320 –> 00:20:07,080
Coach Jim Clayton: Now, that was just to get to that point.
446
00:20:07,080 –> 00:20:10,520
Coach Jim Clayton: Now, here’s where it all changed.
447
00:20:10,780 –> 00:20:13,820
Coach Jim Clayton: I went in five foot tall.
448
00:20:13,820 –> 00:20:15,900
Coach Jim Clayton: I came out six foot tall.
449
00:20:15,900 –> 00:20:16,220
Coach Jim Clayton: Wow.
450
00:20:16,220 –> 00:20:19,420
Coach Jim Clayton: I’d grown to 12 inches in that time frame.
451
00:20:20,240 –> 00:20:24,480
Coach Jim Clayton: But I didn’t have to worry about, you know, growing pains because I was laying in the bed flat.
452
00:20:24,480 –> 00:20:25,120
Randy Black: Yeah.
453
00:20:25,120 –> 00:20:25,520
Coach Jim Clayton: Woo!
454
00:20:25,760 –> 00:20:28,960
Coach Jim Clayton: I said, baby giraffe, I’m talking yes.
455
00:20:28,960 –> 00:20:29,280
Coach Jim Clayton: So
456
00:20:29,660 –> 00:20:33,260
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, I said, man, walking around got that like this.
457
00:20:33,260 –> 00:20:36,140
Coach Jim Clayton: I couldn’t so school cook came back to get started.
458
00:20:36,380 –> 00:20:37,740
Coach Jim Clayton: I couldn’t go to school
459
00:20:38,140 –> 00:20:41,820
Coach Jim Clayton: I took that whole year off from October because I couldn’t go to school.
460
00:20:41,820 –> 00:20:46,300
Coach Jim Clayton: I’ll never forget one time a guy came over from Campbell County, the truant officer.
461
00:20:46,160 –> 00:20:48,720
Coach Jim Clayton: And I was standing out front with that cast on.
462
00:20:48,720 –> 00:20:51,200
Coach Jim Clayton: And he said, How come you’re not in school, son?
463
00:20:51,200 –> 00:20:53,360
Coach Jim Clayton: Boy, my mom went outside.
464
00:20:53,360 –> 00:20:56,240
Coach Jim Clayton: She ran that sucker right off the driveway.
465
00:20:56,480 –> 00:21:00,960
Coach Jim Clayton: But so w when I was, you know, I’d grown a foot.
466
00:21:00,880 –> 00:21:04,480
Coach Jim Clayton: And I didn’t have anything to do.
467
00:21:04,480 –> 00:21:06,880
Coach Jim Clayton: So I walked up the street.
468
00:21:06,880 –> 00:21:09,280
Coach Jim Clayton: A friend of mine had a basketball court up there.
469
00:21:09,679 –> 00:21:11,279
Coach Jim Clayton: And it was only six foot tall.
470
00:21:11,279 –> 00:21:12,880
Coach Jim Clayton: I was six foot tall.
471
00:21:12,880 –> 00:21:15,039
Coach Jim Clayton: The rim was the same height as me.
472
00:21:15,039 –> 00:21:18,000
Coach Jim Clayton: And I just stood there and shot that ball.
473
00:21:18,000 –> 00:21:20,080
Coach Jim Clayton: And didn’t even know what I was doing.
474
00:21:20,320 –> 00:21:22,400
Coach Jim Clayton: I was teaching myself how to shoot.
475
00:21:22,400 –> 00:21:23,600
Randy Black: Yeah.
476
00:21:23,600 –> 00:21:26,160
Coach Jim Clayton: And I was not a good shooter.
477
00:21:26,160 –> 00:21:27,760
Coach Jim Clayton: I was not really a good basketball player.
478
00:21:27,760 –> 00:21:29,920
Coach Jim Clayton: I was okay, but I wasn’t thinking.
479
00:21:29,720 –> 00:21:36,520
Coach Jim Clayton: And so I’d grown a foot, developed a jump shot, and I was going back to school.
480
00:21:36,520 –> 00:21:41,960
Coach Jim Clayton: They told me I could take that thing off now, put that little collar on, like you you if you get in a car wreck.
481
00:21:41,960 –> 00:21:42,440
Coach Jim Clayton: Right
482
00:21:42,660 –> 00:21:44,020
Coach Jim Clayton: I took that off.
483
00:21:44,020 –> 00:21:46,020
Coach Jim Clayton: I was back.
484
00:21:46,020 –> 00:21:47,540
Coach Jim Clayton: No limitations.
485
00:21:47,540 –> 00:21:50,260
Coach Jim Clayton: I could run, I could shoot, I could jump.
486
00:21:50,260 –> 00:21:54,100
Coach Jim Clayton: And so I wanted to go out for the basketball team at Kamak, eighth grader.
487
00:21:53,700 –> 00:21:55,620
Coach Jim Clayton: And the coach goes, man, I don’t know, man.
488
00:21:55,620 –> 00:21:57,059
Coach Jim Clayton: You’re just coming off a broken neck.
489
00:21:57,380 –> 00:21:58,419
Coach Jim Clayton: I don’t know about all this.
490
00:21:58,500 –> 00:22:00,260
Coach Jim Clayton: I said, man, I’m good, coach.
491
00:22:00,260 –> 00:22:00,980
Coach Jim Clayton: Ain’t nothing wrong.
492
00:22:01,059 –> 00:22:02,260
Coach Jim Clayton: I said, I’ve been cleared.
493
00:22:02,500 –> 00:22:03,299
Coach Jim Clayton: Let’s go.
494
00:22:03,299 –> 00:22:04,419
Coach Jim Clayton: So I went out for the team.
495
00:22:04,419 –> 00:22:05,779
Coach Jim Clayton: I made the team
496
00:22:06,019 –> 00:22:08,659
Coach Jim Clayton: Well two ways better, me and Steve Moses.
497
00:22:09,299 –> 00:22:11,220
Coach Jim Clayton: I didn’t get much playing time.
498
00:22:11,220 –> 00:22:12,659
Coach Jim Clayton: I didn’t even care.
499
00:22:12,659 –> 00:22:15,139
Coach Jim Clayton: I might have only got five minutes the whole year
500
00:22:15,260 –> 00:22:16,220
Coach Jim Clayton: But I wasn’t that good.
501
00:22:16,220 –> 00:22:17,340
Coach Jim Clayton: All them guys had made it.
502
00:22:17,580 –> 00:22:18,539
Coach Jim Clayton: We’re just happy to be out of the team.
503
00:22:18,780 –> 00:22:24,059
Coach Jim Clayton: I was on the team and I made something that I look forward to.
504
00:22:24,059 –> 00:22:26,220
Coach Jim Clayton: Oh man, that’s a whole nother story.
505
00:22:27,060 –> 00:22:32,420
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, and these are things I figured out why I am the way I am.
506
00:22:32,420 –> 00:22:34,180
Coach Jim Clayton: These are all the lessons
507
00:22:34,440 –> 00:22:39,080
Coach Jim Clayton: that I went through that it took me fifteen, sixteen years to figure out what I was going through.
508
00:22:39,080 –> 00:22:42,360
Coach Jim Clayton: Now I see why how I I I see the journey.
509
00:22:42,360 –> 00:22:47,399
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, Brad was talking, Brad our last guy we were talking with, he talking about the journey.
510
00:22:47,399 –> 00:22:48,919
Coach Jim Clayton: You gotta see it.
511
00:22:48,840 –> 00:22:50,679
Coach Jim Clayton: You gotta visualize it.
512
00:22:50,679 –> 00:22:54,039
Coach Jim Clayton: And now it was all coming like clarity and clear.
513
00:22:54,679 –> 00:22:56,919
Coach Jim Clayton: And so then I took off.
514
00:22:56,919 –> 00:23:02,120
Coach Jim Clayton: And here’s the thing: if that had not happened,
515
00:23:03,240 –> 00:23:09,400
Coach Jim Clayton: And I had not walked up to that little basket, I called it Rogers Arena, Mr.
516
00:23:09,480 –> 00:23:09,880
Coach Jim Clayton: and Mrs.
517
00:23:09,880 –> 00:23:13,960
Coach Jim Clayton: Rogers, we would not be sitting here right now having this conversation.
518
00:23:14,380 –> 00:23:17,660
Coach Jim Clayton: Because that’s how my basketball career took off.
519
00:23:17,660 –> 00:23:24,700
Coach Jim Clayton: As a result of that almost life-ending situation.
520
00:23:26,159 –> 00:23:29,039
Coach Jim Clayton: That turned into the biggest break of my life.
521
00:23:29,039 –> 00:23:29,840
Randy Black: Yeah.
522
00:23:29,840 –> 00:23:33,760
Coach Jim Clayton: And sent me down the path that I’m on right now
523
00:23:34,220 –> 00:23:38,860
Coach Jim Clayton: And a lot of people don’t know that story because I’ve never really it’s been so long ago.
524
00:23:38,860 –> 00:23:39,660
Randy Black: Right.
525
00:23:39,660 –> 00:23:47,660
Randy Black: That now I’ve known you for you know 30 years and I knew that it happened, but I didn’t know the details of everything.
526
00:23:47,419 –> 00:23:54,380
Randy Black: So like this is new like this is a new thing for me and I’m you know flabbergasted with how bad the situation really was.
527
00:23:54,380 –> 00:23:55,580
Coach Jim Clayton: Oh it was bad.
528
00:23:55,580 –> 00:23:56,860
Coach Jim Clayton: It was real bad.
529
00:23:56,860 –> 00:24:01,660
Coach Jim Clayton: It was about as bad as you can get without going over the end.
530
00:24:01,340 –> 00:24:03,179
Coach Jim Clayton: Over over the edge right there.
531
00:24:03,179 –> 00:24:07,100
Coach Jim Clayton: And so, you know, like I said, you know, we’re talking about resilience.
532
00:24:07,580 –> 00:24:09,740
Coach Jim Clayton: I didn’t even know what that word was.
533
00:24:10,060 –> 00:24:10,460
Coach Jim Clayton: Right.
534
00:24:10,460 –> 00:24:11,500
Coach Jim Clayton: At the time.
535
00:24:11,500 –> 00:24:12,860
Coach Jim Clayton: But I was doing it.
536
00:24:12,860 –> 00:24:13,660
Randy Black: Yes.
537
00:24:13,660 –> 00:24:17,820
Coach Jim Clayton: I was in full mode Brazil.
538
00:24:17,820 –> 00:24:19,260
Coach Jim Clayton: I was bouncing back.
539
00:24:19,960 –> 00:24:23,480
Coach Jim Clayton: Had no idea why, who, what, when, where.
540
00:24:23,480 –> 00:24:24,600
Coach Jim Clayton: I was just doing it.
541
00:24:25,400 –> 00:24:27,720
Coach Jim Clayton: Because I really I didn’t have the other choice.
542
00:24:27,720 –> 00:24:28,200
Coach Jim Clayton: Right
543
00:24:28,780 –> 00:24:31,660
Coach Jim Clayton: And, you know, I’ve always said things happen for reasons.
544
00:24:31,660 –> 00:24:37,340
Coach Jim Clayton: But there’s better ways to learn how to shoot a basketball than break your neck and go through what I went through.
545
00:24:36,900 –> 00:24:37,220
Coach Jim Clayton: Right.
546
00:24:37,220 –> 00:24:40,260
Coach Jim Clayton: I mean I teach it daily and I I wouldn’t approach anybody.
547
00:24:40,260 –> 00:24:47,540
Coach Jim Clayton: But you know, I look at things now, man, my head was still, focus was where because I couldn’t move my neck ’cause it was in cast
548
00:24:48,220 –> 00:24:59,660
Coach Jim Clayton: My whole body had to step straight, couldn’t turn my shoulders, couldn’t do all the things that I coach players now on the mistakes because, man, I was in straight body cast mode.
549
00:24:59,580 –> 00:25:03,179
Coach Jim Clayton: And, you know, I look back at that stuff now and I go, man.
550
00:25:03,179 –> 00:25:06,220
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, I can’t believe I did that, but what other choice did I have?
551
00:25:06,220 –> 00:25:08,380
Coach Jim Clayton: I wasn’t gonna sit around feel sorry for myself.
552
00:25:08,380 –> 00:25:11,580
Coach Jim Clayton: And I was the kind of guy who don’t sit around anyway, just like I am today.
553
00:25:11,580 –> 00:25:13,179
Coach Jim Clayton: Had to go do something
554
00:25:13,000 –> 00:25:18,760
Coach Jim Clayton: So I just walked up the street and I taught myself how to do something that I turned into a profession.
555
00:25:24,720 –> 00:25:26,240
Coach Jim Clayton: We don’t know these lessons.
556
00:25:26,640 –> 00:25:34,480
Coach Jim Clayton: See, these lessons, you know, they’re just position us to grow in the direction that God wants us to go.
557
00:25:35,419 –> 00:25:44,940
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, so I I just know, I know 100%, no questions asked, that had that not happened on that day,
558
00:25:45,760 –> 00:25:48,159
Coach Jim Clayton: My life would have been turned out totally different.
559
00:25:48,159 –> 00:25:49,519
Coach Jim Clayton: Don’t know what that would be.
560
00:25:49,519 –> 00:25:51,360
Coach Jim Clayton: Don’t even even think about it.
561
00:25:51,360 –> 00:25:56,559
Coach Jim Clayton: Because I’ve had a great life and I’ve gotten to do everything that I wanted to do.
562
00:25:56,660 –> 00:26:04,660
Coach Jim Clayton: way m way more than I ever thought I would in in different levels that I never thought I would ever achieve.
563
00:26:04,660 –> 00:26:05,700
Coach Jim Clayton: You know what I mean?
564
00:26:05,700 –> 00:26:10,740
Coach Jim Clayton: So, you know, I I didn’t know I was I didn’t want to sell myself short.
565
00:26:10,519 –> 00:26:11,960
Coach Jim Clayton: But I just didn’t know.
566
00:26:11,960 –> 00:26:14,679
Coach Jim Clayton: And all these things started lining up.
567
00:26:14,679 –> 00:26:17,240
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, I know it’s the power of God.
568
00:26:17,240 –> 00:26:19,880
Coach Jim Clayton: Because things don’t like that don’t line up like that
569
00:26:19,860 –> 00:26:29,059
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, and there was people in the hospital with me that some of them were paralyzed from the waist down, some from the neck down, some different parts.
570
00:26:29,120 –> 00:26:40,560
Coach Jim Clayton: That had obviously they had a broken something in their spine, but when I added you added all those different people up, none of them
571
00:26:40,919 –> 00:26:42,760
Coach Jim Clayton: Added up to severity of mind.
572
00:26:42,760 –> 00:26:46,600
Coach Jim Clayton: And here I was walking down the hallway.
573
00:26:46,600 –> 00:26:49,080
Coach Jim Clayton: And I go, how can that happen?
574
00:26:49,400 –> 00:26:50,679
Coach Jim Clayton: Well, I know now
575
00:26:51,980 –> 00:26:55,179
Coach Jim Clayton: I know exact why that happened.
576
00:26:55,179 –> 00:26:58,539
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, and that’s why my faith is so strong
577
00:26:59,220 –> 00:27:01,460
Coach Jim Clayton: Because he could have took me out right there.
578
00:27:01,460 –> 00:27:02,260
Randy Black: Definitely.
579
00:27:02,260 –> 00:27:04,180
Coach Jim Clayton: He could have said, It’s your time, son.
580
00:27:04,180 –> 00:27:04,900
Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.
581
00:27:04,900 –> 00:27:06,740
Coach Jim Clayton: We gotta go.
582
00:27:06,740 –> 00:27:10,260
Randy Black: But I mean I mean, thinking about it though, do you think maybe it was
583
00:27:10,900 –> 00:27:15,060
Randy Black: You know, maybe as a a wake-up call, like to change something.
584
00:27:15,060 –> 00:27:16,100
Randy Black: Something needed to change.
585
00:27:16,100 –> 00:27:17,460
Randy Black: Something needed to shift direction.
586
00:27:17,460 –> 00:27:19,940
Randy Black: Do you think that’s that might possibly be what this is?
587
00:27:19,940 –> 00:27:21,060
Randy Black: Or what this was?
588
00:27:21,060 –> 00:27:22,180
Randy Black: Oh, no doubt.
589
00:27:22,440 –> 00:27:24,600
Coach Jim Clayton: But I didn’t know what to wake up call what.
590
00:27:24,600 –> 00:27:25,320
Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.
591
00:27:25,320 –> 00:27:25,960
Coach Jim Clayton: But you see.
592
00:27:26,120 –> 00:27:27,639
Randy Black: But that that’s the beauty of it though.
593
00:27:27,639 –> 00:27:27,960
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.
594
00:27:27,960 –> 00:27:30,679
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s like, wow, man.
595
00:27:30,820 –> 00:27:33,300
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, I’m going in this direction.
596
00:27:33,300 –> 00:27:36,180
Coach Jim Clayton: Then all of a sudden, man, boom, I was going in that direction.
597
00:27:36,180 –> 00:27:37,700
Coach Jim Clayton: But they were all going up.
598
00:27:37,700 –> 00:27:38,900
Coach Jim Clayton: They weren’t going lateral.
599
00:27:38,900 –> 00:27:40,420
Coach Jim Clayton: They were going they were going up.
600
00:27:40,420 –> 00:27:43,860
Coach Jim Clayton: So I was growing through all these experiences
601
00:27:44,160 –> 00:27:45,680
Coach Jim Clayton: And this wake-up call.
602
00:27:46,160 –> 00:27:48,160
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, that’s why I call it the break.
603
00:27:48,160 –> 00:27:48,960
Coach Jim Clayton: The big break.
604
00:27:48,960 –> 00:27:50,720
Coach Jim Clayton: It wasn’t the big break I got in life.
605
00:27:50,720 –> 00:27:53,040
Coach Jim Clayton: It was the big break that set me into life.
606
00:27:53,040 –> 00:27:53,520
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?
607
00:27:53,520 –> 00:27:55,360
Coach Jim Clayton: That set me on my journey.
608
00:27:55,360 –> 00:27:57,200
Coach Jim Clayton: And I’m still on that journey.
609
00:27:57,200 –> 00:27:58,240
Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.
610
00:27:58,260 –> 00:28:00,340
Coach Jim Clayton: I’m still on that journey.
611
00:28:00,340 –> 00:28:05,059
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, and it I you know I I I don’t think it ever stops.
612
00:28:05,840 –> 00:28:07,840
Coach Jim Clayton: Unfortunately for a lot of people it does.
613
00:28:08,240 –> 00:28:09,360
Coach Jim Clayton: They stop their journey.
614
00:28:09,360 –> 00:28:10,720
Coach Jim Clayton: They get complacent.
615
00:28:10,720 –> 00:28:14,160
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, and success is a complacency disease.
616
00:28:14,160 –> 00:28:19,120
Coach Jim Clayton: You’re happy where you are because you feel like, oh yeah, but what about where you could have gone?
617
00:28:19,120 –> 00:28:20,080
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.
618
00:28:19,720 –> 00:28:21,560
Coach Jim Clayton: What about what you could have done?
619
00:28:21,560 –> 00:28:23,800
Randy Black: Humans like being comfortable.
620
00:28:23,800 –> 00:28:24,600
Coach Jim Clayton: Oh.
621
00:28:24,600 –> 00:28:25,320
Coach Jim Clayton: Oh yeah.
622
00:28:25,320 –> 00:28:29,240
Coach Jim Clayton: Like if you go out on my court right there, you look out, I got all these squares all over the court.
623
00:28:29,640 –> 00:28:31,160
Coach Jim Clayton: Those are called comfort zones.
624
00:28:31,160 –> 00:28:34,360
Coach Jim Clayton: I tell people, go step in that square.
625
00:28:33,720 –> 00:28:37,640
Coach Jim Clayton: Now look, not much room for growth in there, is there?
626
00:28:37,640 –> 00:28:38,680
Coach Jim Clayton: Nope.
627
00:28:38,680 –> 00:28:40,680
Coach Jim Clayton: So you’re bound by that right there.
628
00:28:41,000 –> 00:28:43,800
Coach Jim Clayton: I said, well, where’s your comfort zone, coach?
629
00:28:43,200 –> 00:28:46,720
Coach Jim Clayton: I said, look at the sideline and the baseline around this court.
630
00:28:46,720 –> 00:28:48,880
Coach Jim Clayton: That’s how big my comfort zone is.
631
00:28:48,880 –> 00:28:49,440
Coach Jim Clayton: Woo!
632
00:28:49,519 –> 00:28:51,360
Coach Jim Clayton: Because hey, guess what?
633
00:28:51,360 –> 00:28:53,360
Coach Jim Clayton: I’m keeping growing.
634
00:28:53,360 –> 00:28:56,720
Coach Jim Clayton: Life’s a long life learning is a lifelong skill.
635
00:28:57,419 –> 00:29:00,620
Coach Jim Clayton: And I’m going to soak up everything I can do.
636
00:29:00,620 –> 00:29:03,900
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, we today had an opportunity to talk with Dr.
637
00:29:03,900 –> 00:29:05,260
Coach Jim Clayton: Brad Miller.
638
00:29:05,260 –> 00:29:06,780
Coach Jim Clayton: I learned so much
639
00:29:06,980 –> 00:29:07,460
Randy Black: Yeah.
640
00:29:07,460 –> 00:29:08,660
Coach Jim Clayton: Oh my God.
641
00:29:08,660 –> 00:29:10,100
Coach Jim Clayton: I was like a sponge.
642
00:29:10,420 –> 00:29:14,260
Coach Jim Clayton: I soaked up everything that God said, ’cause he is speaking my language.
643
00:29:14,500 –> 00:29:16,980
Coach Jim Clayton: And everybody can do the same thing every day.
644
00:29:16,980 –> 00:29:19,060
Coach Jim Clayton: And that’s the hopes of this.
645
00:29:19,060 –> 00:29:26,100
Coach Jim Clayton: You can soak up stuff, well, golly, if that guy can overcome that, my little hangnail over here, that ain’t nothing
646
00:29:26,100 –> 00:29:26,260
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.
647
00:29:26,340 –> 00:29:27,860
Coach Jim Clayton: Well you’re right, it isn’t anything.
648
00:29:27,860 –> 00:29:30,740
Coach Jim Clayton: You just make that little hangnail a big thing.
649
00:29:30,980 –> 00:29:32,740
Coach Jim Clayton: And we don’t need to do that.
650
00:29:32,740 –> 00:29:36,660
Coach Jim Clayton: And you know, that just set me on like a a new foundation.
651
00:29:36,660 –> 00:29:37,460
Coach Jim Clayton: Right.
652
00:29:37,760 –> 00:29:42,080
Coach Jim Clayton: And you can’t have a small foundation and try to build a big house.
653
00:29:42,080 –> 00:29:42,880
Coach Jim Clayton: Nope.
654
00:29:42,880 –> 00:29:44,639
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s just gonna crumble and fall down.
655
00:29:44,880 –> 00:29:48,320
Randy Black: I mean you can you can even go back to the the biblical story of
656
00:29:48,440 –> 00:29:52,760
Randy Black: The man who builds his house upon the rock and the one who builds his house upon the sand and what happens?
657
00:29:53,399 –> 00:29:56,679
Randy Black: The one on the sand collapses because it doesn’t have the solid foundation.
658
00:29:56,679 –> 00:29:58,200
Coach Jim Clayton: And you gotta have that foundation.
659
00:29:58,360 –> 00:29:59,960
Coach Jim Clayton: Everybody doesn’t want the foundation.
660
00:29:59,960 –> 00:30:01,399
Coach Jim Clayton: They don’t want to build the foundation.
661
00:30:01,399 –> 00:30:03,159
Coach Jim Clayton: And I know this for a fact.
662
00:30:03,040 –> 00:30:08,880
Coach Jim Clayton: I’ve never seen anybody show up at a house with a roof before the built house was built.
663
00:30:08,880 –> 00:30:09,440
Randy Black: Yeah.
664
00:30:09,680 –> 00:30:10,400
Coach Jim Clayton: Where’s the roof?
665
00:30:10,400 –> 00:30:11,120
Coach Jim Clayton: I got a roof here.
666
00:30:11,120 –> 00:30:11,920
Coach Jim Clayton: Where’s it going to?
667
00:30:11,920 –> 00:30:13,200
Coach Jim Clayton: I don’t see a house.
668
00:30:13,200 –> 00:30:14,560
Coach Jim Clayton: You just don’t see that.
669
00:30:14,560 –> 00:30:16,320
Coach Jim Clayton: So you gotta build that.
670
00:30:16,320 –> 00:30:17,600
Coach Jim Clayton: And it takes what?
671
00:30:18,780 –> 00:30:21,020
Coach Jim Clayton: It ain’t gonna happen overnight.
672
00:30:21,020 –> 00:30:22,700
Coach Jim Clayton: Nothing great happens overnight.
673
00:30:22,700 –> 00:30:25,420
Coach Jim Clayton: I’ve said that once, I’ll say it a billion times.
674
00:30:25,420 –> 00:30:30,940
Coach Jim Clayton: And so, you know, I look at this stuff and I look how it is it’s shaped my life
675
00:30:31,019 –> 00:30:33,980
Coach Jim Clayton: you know, uh on and off the court.
676
00:30:33,980 –> 00:30:34,940
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.
677
00:30:34,940 –> 00:30:37,100
Coach Jim Clayton: See, on and off the court.
678
00:30:37,100 –> 00:30:45,580
Coach Jim Clayton: And, you know, I look back and I go, man, what you know, what has really motivated me to start things?
679
00:30:45,460 –> 00:30:49,060
Coach Jim Clayton: And you know, it wasn’t really the accident that did that.
680
00:30:49,700 –> 00:30:52,820
Coach Jim Clayton: I take it back to elementary school.
681
00:30:52,820 –> 00:30:57,380
Coach Jim Clayton: And in elementary school, the coolest thing you could become
682
00:30:57,980 –> 00:30:59,340
Coach Jim Clayton: was a patrol.
683
00:30:59,340 –> 00:31:00,300
Randy Black: Oh yeah.
684
00:31:00,300 –> 00:31:01,660
Coach Jim Clayton: And you had a badge.
685
00:31:01,660 –> 00:31:02,060
Randy Black: Yep.
686
00:31:02,060 –> 00:31:06,220
Coach Jim Clayton: And you had a thing that you wore that you put the badge on.
687
00:31:06,240 –> 00:31:10,640
Coach Jim Clayton: And you had a a bamboo stick with a flag on it.
688
00:31:10,640 –> 00:31:14,960
Coach Jim Clayton: And when it rained you gotta put those yellow big things on and go out in the water.
689
00:31:14,960 –> 00:31:15,200
Randy Black: Yep.
690
00:31:15,440 –> 00:31:17,200
Coach Jim Clayton: I was not a patrol.
691
00:31:17,200 –> 00:31:18,480
Randy Black: I was not a patrol.
692
00:31:18,480 –> 00:31:20,960
Coach Jim Clayton: Well, my sister was.
693
00:31:20,500 –> 00:31:21,140
Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.
694
00:31:21,140 –> 00:31:23,220
Coach Jim Clayton: I didn’t even know what it was.
695
00:31:23,220 –> 00:31:24,580
Coach Jim Clayton: And she was a patrol.
696
00:31:24,580 –> 00:31:26,260
Coach Jim Clayton: She brought that stuff home.
697
00:31:26,260 –> 00:31:29,300
Coach Jim Clayton: And I got kind of connected to that bass.
698
00:31:29,300 –> 00:31:32,340
Coach Jim Clayton: And I’d take she’d wrap it up a certain way.
699
00:31:32,580 –> 00:31:34,900
Coach Jim Clayton: And I take it apart, put it on.
700
00:31:35,380 –> 00:31:36,980
Coach Jim Clayton: Drove her nuts.
701
00:31:37,299 –> 00:31:40,820
Coach Jim Clayton: I said, man, I’m gonna be a patrol one day.
702
00:31:41,260 –> 00:31:43,340
Coach Jim Clayton: And then there was a red patrol.
703
00:31:43,340 –> 00:31:44,779
Coach Jim Clayton: That was a lieutenant.
704
00:31:44,779 –> 00:31:46,539
Coach Jim Clayton: And the captain was blue.
705
00:31:46,539 –> 00:31:47,179
Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.
706
00:31:47,179 –> 00:31:48,620
Coach Jim Clayton: And I swatched him.
707
00:31:48,620 –> 00:31:50,460
Coach Jim Clayton: And I said, how do you got to be a patrol?
708
00:31:50,460 –> 00:31:52,220
Coach Jim Clayton: They got to get picked.
709
00:31:52,560 –> 00:31:58,400
Coach Jim Clayton: So I took sheets and cut them up in strips and I made me that little thing.
710
00:31:58,400 –> 00:31:58,720
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.
711
00:31:58,720 –> 00:32:00,720
Coach Jim Clayton: And I made me a bass.
712
00:32:00,840 –> 00:32:07,720
Coach Jim Clayton: And I went out and got a stick and I made a flag and I practiced being a patrol.
713
00:32:07,720 –> 00:32:09,400
Coach Jim Clayton: Well, guess what?
714
00:32:09,400 –> 00:32:10,919
Coach Jim Clayton: I got the word.
715
00:32:11,040 –> 00:32:12,720
Coach Jim Clayton: I got to be a patrol.
716
00:32:12,720 –> 00:32:13,920
Coach Jim Clayton: I got my badge.
717
00:32:13,920 –> 00:32:15,360
Coach Jim Clayton: I got my thing.
718
00:32:15,360 –> 00:32:23,200
Coach Jim Clayton: And that’s what set me forward on looking at stuff and then having a goal to go get it.
719
00:32:23,120 –> 00:32:26,880
Coach Jim Clayton: So the next thing I wanted was where I got to make that team.
720
00:32:27,520 –> 00:32:31,120
Coach Jim Clayton: Because Kamak had the coolest uniforms ever.
721
00:32:31,840 –> 00:32:34,480
Coach Jim Clayton: There wasn’t any way to buy that uniform.
722
00:32:34,660 –> 00:32:36,100
Coach Jim Clayton: You had to earn it.
723
00:32:36,100 –> 00:32:39,059
Coach Jim Clayton: There was no mall to go get the uniform.
724
00:32:39,059 –> 00:32:41,539
Coach Jim Clayton: Well, I remember when I made that team in eighth grade.
725
00:32:41,539 –> 00:32:43,220
Coach Jim Clayton: I didn’t care about the mess.
726
00:32:43,220 –> 00:32:46,100
Coach Jim Clayton: By gosh, I got that uniform.
727
00:32:46,500 –> 00:32:53,940
Coach Jim Clayton: And I remember running home, running in my bedroom, putting that thing on, staring in that mirror, going, yes, yes
728
00:32:54,519 –> 00:32:55,080
Coach Jim Clayton: You know?
729
00:32:55,480 –> 00:32:57,159
Coach Jim Clayton: But I know I wasn’t gonna play much.
730
00:32:57,159 –> 00:33:02,279
Coach Jim Clayton: But the next year those old guys graduated and I got that uniform again with a different number.
731
00:33:02,279 –> 00:33:03,399
Coach Jim Clayton: Well you know what
732
00:33:03,840 –> 00:33:06,400
Coach Jim Clayton: Then I started thinking, well, what about the next level?
733
00:33:06,400 –> 00:33:08,160
Coach Jim Clayton: Well that was Pony Express.
734
00:33:08,160 –> 00:33:11,120
Coach Jim Clayton: I did the same thing with my Express services.
735
00:33:11,120 –> 00:33:12,240
Coach Jim Clayton: I made them
736
00:33:12,620 –> 00:33:14,380
Coach Jim Clayton: Preparing for being there.
737
00:33:14,940 –> 00:33:18,060
Coach Jim Clayton: Now people might think you’re crazy, laugh at this.
738
00:33:18,060 –> 00:33:19,820
Coach Jim Clayton: You can say what you want.
739
00:33:19,820 –> 00:33:20,940
Coach Jim Clayton: But guess what
740
00:33:20,800 –> 00:33:25,520
Coach Jim Clayton: I still got those jerseys framed at my house in my man cave.
741
00:33:25,520 –> 00:33:30,960
Coach Jim Clayton: And I look at that and I look at that jersey and I think what I went through to get to that.
742
00:33:30,660 –> 00:33:32,180
Coach Jim Clayton: And that jersey and that jersey.
743
00:33:32,180 –> 00:33:33,860
Coach Jim Clayton: I got my college jersey.
744
00:33:33,860 –> 00:33:35,380
Coach Jim Clayton: I got all those things.
745
00:33:35,540 –> 00:33:38,180
Coach Jim Clayton: And they don’t mean much to anybody else.
746
00:33:38,180 –> 00:33:40,580
Coach Jim Clayton: I got my patrol badge.
747
00:33:41,440 –> 00:33:43,679
Coach Jim Clayton: I still have that in my drawer.
748
00:33:43,679 –> 00:33:44,320
Coach Jim Clayton: Nice.
749
00:33:44,320 –> 00:33:45,840
Coach Jim Clayton: I mean, I’ve got all that stuff.
750
00:33:45,840 –> 00:33:50,399
Coach Jim Clayton: I saved it because those are life-changing moments.
751
00:33:51,240 –> 00:33:53,080
Coach Jim Clayton: None of that would have happened.
752
00:33:53,080 –> 00:33:55,320
Coach Jim Clayton: Well the patrol would have.
753
00:33:55,320 –> 00:33:58,840
Coach Jim Clayton: But everything else down the way, if it wasn’t for that break.
754
00:33:58,840 –> 00:33:59,799
Randy Black: Yeah.
755
00:33:59,760 –> 00:34:08,879
Coach Jim Clayton: You see, but the patrol got me into a leadership mode of going and being doing able to do something, have a skill, crossing that thing.
756
00:34:08,879 –> 00:34:13,359
Coach Jim Clayton: How important was that that that person got from one side to the other?
757
00:34:13,240 –> 00:34:17,320
Coach Jim Clayton: Well, it’s how important to that is that the parent?
758
00:34:17,320 –> 00:34:19,960
Coach Jim Clayton: A parent that thinks about losing their child.
759
00:34:19,960 –> 00:34:26,440
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, we’ve seen that disaster that’s happened the last that just makes me cry every day when I see that
760
00:34:26,639 –> 00:34:28,159
Coach Jim Clayton: And it gives me cold chills.
761
00:34:28,159 –> 00:34:32,559
Coach Jim Clayton: So I can’t, I mean, imagine if they got hit by a car.
762
00:34:32,559 –> 00:34:38,240
Coach Jim Clayton: Whatever means that it was they were taken away from you at an early age
763
00:34:38,320 –> 00:34:42,399
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, I look back at that, so I had a big responsibility.
764
00:34:42,399 –> 00:34:46,000
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, and I still use that big responsibility
765
00:34:46,040 –> 00:34:47,320
Randy Black: to share what we’re sharing.
766
00:34:47,560 –> 00:34:57,080
Randy Black: So so have you have you ever had the opportunity to to to to share this story with with athletes you’ve worked with or students you’ve worked with who’ve
767
00:34:57,460 –> 00:35:04,580
Randy Black: Who’ve, you know, maybe come to you and said, Coach, I’ve I’ve kind of got some tough stuff going on here and I don’t know what to do.
768
00:35:04,580 –> 00:35:06,500
Randy Black: Have you ever had that opportunity?
769
00:35:06,500 –> 00:35:10,100
Coach Jim Clayton: Well, I’ve shared it with a few people, but not a lot of people.
770
00:35:10,100 –> 00:35:10,740
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.
771
00:35:11,020 –> 00:35:13,820
Coach Jim Clayton: I I I don’t know no particular reason why I didn’t.
772
00:35:14,540 –> 00:35:16,060
Coach Jim Clayton: I just kept moving on.
773
00:35:16,060 –> 00:35:16,460
Randy Black: Yeah.
774
00:35:16,460 –> 00:35:20,220
Coach Jim Clayton: And I said, well, that’s in the past, but that was a life-changing moment for me.
775
00:35:20,220 –> 00:35:24,060
Coach Jim Clayton: And and everybody has life-changing moments.
776
00:35:24,260 –> 00:35:25,300
Coach Jim Clayton: They all have them.
777
00:35:25,300 –> 00:35:26,980
Coach Jim Clayton: We don’t know when you’re going to have them.
778
00:35:26,980 –> 00:35:29,940
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, what’s going to be that big impactful moment?
779
00:35:30,740 –> 00:35:32,500
Coach Jim Clayton: I don’t know for you.
780
00:35:32,540 –> 00:35:37,660
Coach Jim Clayton: I know what it was for me, but you know what the crazy part is, it still’s happening.
781
00:35:37,660 –> 00:35:38,140
Randy Black: Yeah.
782
00:35:38,140 –> 00:35:42,460
Coach Jim Clayton: I’m having impactful moments now, like the journey my mom with cancer.
783
00:35:42,460 –> 00:35:43,100
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah
784
00:35:44,359 –> 00:35:54,359
Coach Jim Clayton: There are certain things that have happened in my life that are unbelievably fantastic that I would have never ever had.
785
00:35:54,240 –> 00:35:56,720
Coach Jim Clayton: If it wasn’t for going through this cancer journey.
786
00:35:57,600 –> 00:36:01,920
Coach Jim Clayton: So I look at it and go, man, that’s I’m growing.
787
00:36:01,920 –> 00:36:03,600
Coach Jim Clayton: I’m still growing.
788
00:36:03,680 –> 00:36:04,800
Coach Jim Clayton: I’m getting better.
789
00:36:04,800 –> 00:36:05,600
Coach Jim Clayton: I’m learning.
790
00:36:05,600 –> 00:36:06,720
Coach Jim Clayton: I’m sharing.
791
00:36:06,720 –> 00:36:08,480
Coach Jim Clayton: I’m expanding.
792
00:36:08,420 –> 00:36:17,700
Coach Jim Clayton: My horizon from just being a dumb jock, you know, to be an athlete to all the things I’ve encountered now.
793
00:36:17,700 –> 00:36:18,020
Coach Jim Clayton: And
794
00:36:18,820 –> 00:36:24,980
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s like we talked about that ball one day when you put it down, it’ll stop bouncing.
795
00:36:25,700 –> 00:36:28,980
Coach Jim Clayton: But I always say get in the game, stay in the game.
796
00:36:28,660 –> 00:36:36,900
Coach Jim Clayton: The ball don’t bounce for me anymore like it did up and down the court, shooting jump shots, making moves, doing all those things I did when I was playing.
797
00:36:36,900 –> 00:36:41,060
Coach Jim Clayton: But it’s steered me in another direction where I’m still in the game.
798
00:36:41,060 –> 00:36:42,980
Randy Black: Yeah.
799
00:36:42,480 –> 00:36:44,160
Coach Jim Clayton: Just in a different version.
800
00:36:44,160 –> 00:36:46,320
Coach Jim Clayton: Just in a different different different application.
801
00:36:47,200 –> 00:36:51,280
Randy Black: Well, I know, you know, we can look at, you know, you know, the journeys you go through.
802
00:36:51,280 –> 00:36:51,760
Randy Black: Like in
803
00:36:51,960 –> 00:36:59,800
Randy Black: This right here, what we’re doing, sitting here each week and recording and and sharing these ideas and thoughts, this is another journey you’re on.
804
00:36:59,800 –> 00:37:01,080
Randy Black: It’s another way for
805
00:37:01,420 –> 00:37:09,340
Randy Black: for you, based on everything that’s happened in your life and the things you’ve learned and the the things you’ve experienced to get that out there and share it.
806
00:37:09,340 –> 00:37:10,540
Randy Black: Oh, absolutely.
807
00:37:10,540 –> 00:37:12,220
Coach Jim Clayton: And they look at that and they go.
808
00:37:12,620 –> 00:37:15,820
Coach Jim Clayton: Gosh, now that’s pretty big, coach.
809
00:37:15,820 –> 00:37:18,300
Coach Jim Clayton: Maybe this thing I’m going through ain’t so big.
810
00:37:18,300 –> 00:37:24,220
Coach Jim Clayton: No, it doesn’t it’s not the the bigness of it, okay, how big it is.
811
00:37:24,220 –> 00:37:24,940
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s that
812
00:37:25,340 –> 00:37:29,660
Coach Jim Clayton: that you attack it and you figure out how to make it better.
813
00:37:29,660 –> 00:37:38,460
Coach Jim Clayton: So even though this might be, you might think that’s what your problem is is small compared to what I went through, and your mind is big.
814
00:37:38,880 –> 00:37:40,400
Coach Jim Clayton: And you gotta fix it.
815
00:37:40,400 –> 00:37:43,920
Coach Jim Clayton: Well it’s gonna get bigger.
816
00:37:43,920 –> 00:37:46,240
Coach Jim Clayton: And you know those are the things
817
00:37:46,160 –> 00:37:49,040
Coach Jim Clayton: that I use, you know, as this right here.
818
00:37:49,040 –> 00:37:50,240
Coach Jim Clayton: I use this for me.
819
00:37:50,240 –> 00:37:52,160
Coach Jim Clayton: I say, man, look how far you’ve come.
820
00:37:52,160 –> 00:37:54,000
Coach Jim Clayton: What would happen if you gave up
821
00:37:55,119 –> 00:37:56,960
Coach Jim Clayton: I don’t even want to go down that road.
822
00:37:56,960 –> 00:37:57,200
Coach Jim Clayton: Right.
823
00:37:57,359 –> 00:37:59,680
Coach Jim Clayton: Because I’m not going, I’m not about regression.
824
00:37:59,680 –> 00:38:00,799
Coach Jim Clayton: I’m about progress.
825
00:38:01,599 –> 00:38:07,920
Coach Jim Clayton: And so, you know, it it it’s you just got to go from recovery of something to how’s it going to impact your life
826
00:38:08,500 –> 00:38:14,500
Coach Jim Clayton: And so I look at it, you know, like you said, it’s saying, man, I’m back in the game.
827
00:38:16,099 –> 00:38:20,980
Coach Jim Clayton: And what’s so funny is, sometimes these things throw your life totally upside down.
828
00:38:20,980 –> 00:38:22,579
Coach Jim Clayton: And here’s what I mean.
829
00:38:23,260 –> 00:38:26,460
Coach Jim Clayton: Basketball was not my sport.
830
00:38:26,460 –> 00:38:28,460
Coach Jim Clayton: I was a baseball player.
831
00:38:28,700 –> 00:38:30,620
Coach Jim Clayton: I was a good pitcher.
832
00:38:30,620 –> 00:38:32,700
Coach Jim Clayton: But then what happened was
833
00:38:33,760 –> 00:38:35,599
Coach Jim Clayton: I couldn’t turn my neck.
834
00:38:35,599 –> 00:38:38,160
Coach Jim Clayton: My neck will only turn certain so far.
835
00:38:38,160 –> 00:38:39,119
Coach Jim Clayton: Right.
836
00:38:39,119 –> 00:38:43,839
Coach Jim Clayton: And I couldn’t figure out why I was throwing the ball every which way but loose, but down the
837
00:38:44,120 –> 00:38:45,080
Coach Jim Clayton: a strike.
838
00:38:45,080 –> 00:38:46,440
Coach Jim Clayton: I was hitting people.
839
00:38:46,440 –> 00:38:49,320
Coach Jim Clayton: I was I was going, oh my God, I’m gonna kill somebody.
840
00:38:50,120 –> 00:38:54,520
Coach Jim Clayton: And you know what funny thing was, I was twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen.
841
00:38:54,520 –> 00:38:56,520
Coach Jim Clayton: I didn’t pitch in high school
842
00:38:56,420 –> 00:38:59,700
Coach Jim Clayton: And and one time I pitched a a pitch down at Old St.
843
00:38:59,700 –> 00:39:00,740
Coach Jim Clayton: Cloud’s Commons.
844
00:39:00,740 –> 00:39:01,540
Randy Black: Right.
845
00:39:01,540 –> 00:39:04,500
Coach Jim Clayton: I threw the ball literally out of the ballpark.
846
00:39:04,500 –> 00:39:05,300
Coach Jim Clayton: Oh my gosh.
847
00:39:05,300 –> 00:39:08,340
Coach Jim Clayton: It went over the pi the batter’s head
848
00:39:08,160 –> 00:39:10,720
Coach Jim Clayton: And in the back of back there they had a screen.
849
00:39:10,720 –> 00:39:11,280
Coach Jim Clayton: Yep.
850
00:39:11,280 –> 00:39:17,600
Coach Jim Clayton: And it shot up the screen over the screen on the first pitch.
851
00:39:17,600 –> 00:39:18,400
Coach Jim Clayton: Wow.
852
00:39:18,300 –> 00:39:21,180
Coach Jim Clayton: And I go, oh, this is not good.
853
00:39:21,180 –> 00:39:21,740
Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.
854
00:39:21,740 –> 00:39:24,700
Coach Jim Clayton: Well the funny thing, I’m thinking, coach, take me up.
855
00:39:24,700 –> 00:39:26,220
Coach Jim Clayton: He looked at me like this.
856
00:39:26,220 –> 00:39:27,660
Coach Jim Clayton: I’m thinking, okay
857
00:39:28,220 –> 00:39:30,619
Coach Jim Clayton: I finished I pitched that game.
858
00:39:30,619 –> 00:39:32,539
Coach Jim Clayton: And I pitched a no-hitter.
859
00:39:32,539 –> 00:39:33,260
Randy Black: Wow.
860
00:39:33,260 –> 00:39:36,140
Coach Jim Clayton: Now that was pure, had to be pure luck.
861
00:39:36,140 –> 00:39:36,779
Randy Black: Yeah
862
00:39:37,020 –> 00:39:37,980
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.
863
00:39:37,980 –> 00:39:42,619
Coach Jim Clayton: But I didn’t realize until about four or five years ago why I couldn’t do pitch anymore.
864
00:39:42,619 –> 00:39:43,740
Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.
865
00:39:43,900 –> 00:39:50,140
Coach Jim Clayton: I’m thinking, well that’s a long time between being a high school so so what happened was and I was listening to who
866
00:39:50,359 –> 00:39:53,000
Coach Jim Clayton: One of the great quarterbacks of all time, Peyton Banning.
867
00:39:53,000 –> 00:39:53,400
Randy Black: Yeah.
868
00:39:53,400 –> 00:39:54,839
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, he had neck surgery.
869
00:39:54,839 –> 00:39:55,160
Randy Black: Right.
870
00:39:55,160 –> 00:39:57,960
Coach Jim Clayton: And after his neck surgery, his bone was not the same.
871
00:39:57,960 –> 00:39:59,480
Coach Jim Clayton: It was going high, low.
872
00:39:59,000 –> 00:40:03,480
Coach Jim Clayton: And he goes, I just couldn’t turn, I can’t get that range of motion in my neck that it didn’t.
873
00:40:03,560 –> 00:40:05,560
Coach Jim Clayton: I go, the light went off.
874
00:40:05,560 –> 00:40:06,360
Randy Black: Yeah.
875
00:40:07,160 –> 00:40:10,600
Coach Jim Clayton: Boy, I wish I’d have known that a long time ago
876
00:40:10,940 –> 00:40:13,020
Coach Jim Clayton: But it doesn’t matter when you know it.
877
00:40:13,020 –> 00:40:14,700
Coach Jim Clayton: It just matters that you know.
878
00:40:16,060 –> 00:40:23,260
Coach Jim Clayton: And you know, I it’s just I look back at this stuff and I just go, it amazes me how this
879
00:40:24,120 –> 00:40:27,160
Coach Jim Clayton: Caused this, present a dis fact.
880
00:40:27,160 –> 00:40:31,800
Coach Jim Clayton: So everything that I was good at, now I became not good at.
881
00:40:32,120 –> 00:40:33,800
Coach Jim Clayton: Everything I was not good at
882
00:40:34,520 –> 00:40:35,480
Coach Jim Clayton: It flipped.
883
00:40:36,040 –> 00:40:38,839
Coach Jim Clayton: And I’m going, who could predict that?
884
00:40:38,839 –> 00:40:39,640
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.
885
00:40:39,960 –> 00:40:42,920
Coach Jim Clayton: Who could have predicted that was ever going to happen?
886
00:40:42,920 –> 00:40:44,280
Coach Jim Clayton: Only one person.
887
00:40:45,220 –> 00:40:46,180
Randy Black: Man upstairs.
888
00:40:46,580 –> 00:40:47,700
Coach Jim Clayton: My head coach.
889
00:40:47,700 –> 00:40:49,380
Coach Jim Clayton: The coach of all coaches.
890
00:40:49,380 –> 00:40:49,860
Randy Black: Yeah.
891
00:40:49,860 –> 00:40:51,220
Coach Jim Clayton: The master coach.
892
00:40:51,220 –> 00:40:51,780
Randy Black: Mm-hmm.
893
00:40:51,780 –> 00:40:55,140
Randy Black: You know, I mean he He he has a path for all of us.
894
00:40:55,140 –> 00:40:56,260
Randy Black: Oh, he does.
895
00:40:56,260 –> 00:40:56,820
Randy Black: You know
896
00:40:56,760 –> 00:40:59,080
Randy Black: We we ha we we may not understand it.
897
00:40:59,080 –> 00:41:00,440
Randy Black: And we might not like it.
898
00:41:00,440 –> 00:41:02,280
Randy Black: And we may not like it.
899
00:41:02,280 –> 00:41:06,440
Randy Black: But eventually, eventually that path is going to go right where it’s supposed to take us.
900
00:41:06,440 –> 00:41:07,480
Coach Jim Clayton: But you got to believe.
901
00:41:07,480 –> 00:41:07,960
Randy Black: Yeah.
902
00:41:07,960 –> 00:41:10,520
Coach Jim Clayton: And we we’re not on his time.
903
00:41:11,120 –> 00:41:16,080
Coach Jim Clayton: See, that’s why years and years down the road, it comes to truth.
904
00:41:16,400 –> 00:41:20,080
Coach Jim Clayton: Well boy, why wish that would have come to truth a year, a few years back?
905
00:41:20,320 –> 00:41:21,520
Coach Jim Clayton: That ain’t about you.
906
00:41:21,520 –> 00:41:22,320
Coach Jim Clayton: Right.
907
00:41:22,560 –> 00:41:24,000
Randy Black: Do you understand?
908
00:41:24,000 –> 00:41:26,880
Randy Black: You have to be patient for the time to unfold.
909
00:41:27,120 –> 00:41:28,160
Coach Jim Clayton: We already talked about that.
910
00:41:28,160 –> 00:41:28,640
Randy Black: Yes.
911
00:41:28,640 –> 00:41:29,280
Coach Jim Clayton: Patience.
912
00:41:29,280 –> 00:41:31,040
Coach Jim Clayton: One of my worst things.
913
00:41:31,040 –> 00:41:33,200
Coach Jim Clayton: But I ask God for that every day.
914
00:41:33,760 –> 00:41:35,120
Coach Jim Clayton: Give me patience
915
00:41:35,020 –> 00:41:36,380
Coach Jim Clayton: Please give me places.
916
00:41:36,380 –> 00:41:38,140
Coach Jim Clayton: Be be the goldfish.
917
00:41:39,020 –> 00:41:39,820
Coach Jim Clayton: Breathe.
918
00:41:40,220 –> 00:41:41,260
Coach Jim Clayton: Relax.
919
00:41:41,260 –> 00:41:42,060
Coach Jim Clayton: Chill out.
920
00:41:42,540 –> 00:41:45,420
Coach Jim Clayton: And so I have a place at my house.
921
00:41:45,359 –> 00:41:48,160
Coach Jim Clayton: that I’ve designated as my patience zone.
922
00:41:48,160 –> 00:41:48,800
Randy Black: Mm-hmm.
923
00:41:48,800 –> 00:41:52,720
Coach Jim Clayton: And when I need patience or I need to just chill, guess what I do?
924
00:41:52,720 –> 00:41:54,400
Coach Jim Clayton: I go right to that place.
925
00:41:54,400 –> 00:41:55,680
Coach Jim Clayton: And it’s just like
926
00:41:58,800 –> 00:41:59,680
Coach Jim Clayton: Wow.
927
00:41:59,839 –> 00:42:01,520
Coach Jim Clayton: I go, okay, I’m good.
928
00:42:01,520 –> 00:42:02,480
Coach Jim Clayton: I’m back.
929
00:42:02,480 –> 00:42:03,440
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.
930
00:42:03,440 –> 00:42:05,359
Coach Jim Clayton: But that’s that’s my story, man.
931
00:42:05,520 –> 00:42:07,920
Randy Black: So I’ve got I got two questions about this.
932
00:42:07,920 –> 00:42:08,720
Randy Black: Okay.
933
00:42:09,099 –> 00:42:10,140
Randy Black: And they’re reflections.
934
00:42:10,140 –> 00:42:11,339
Randy Black: It’s not something about what happened.
935
00:42:11,420 –> 00:42:13,020
Randy Black: There’s ways to reflect on things.
936
00:42:13,020 –> 00:42:19,420
Randy Black: So the first thing is, if you could go back in time and talk to the teenage gym.
937
00:42:19,540 –> 00:42:20,980
Randy Black: about what’s happened here.
938
00:42:20,980 –> 00:42:24,020
Randy Black: Talk to yourself about the events.
939
00:42:24,020 –> 00:42:25,700
Randy Black: What would you say?
940
00:42:25,700 –> 00:42:30,980
Coach Jim Clayton: I’d say, well, things aren’t going your way at the current moment.
941
00:42:32,460 –> 00:42:34,780
Coach Jim Clayton: So you really don’t have a choice.
942
00:42:34,780 –> 00:42:36,620
Coach Jim Clayton: What are you gonna do about it?
943
00:42:36,860 –> 00:42:38,300
Coach Jim Clayton: What you gonna do about it?
944
00:42:38,300 –> 00:42:39,340
Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.
945
00:42:39,340 –> 00:42:40,940
Coach Jim Clayton: You gonna whine?
946
00:42:41,460 –> 00:42:51,059
Coach Jim Clayton: Complain, feel sorry for yourself, or are you gonna kick it into new gear and figure out a way you’re gonna beat this
947
00:42:51,160 –> 00:42:52,440
Coach Jim Clayton: Well what’s gonna happen?
948
00:42:52,440 –> 00:42:52,840
Randy Black: Yeah.
949
00:42:52,840 –> 00:42:58,520
Coach Jim Clayton: See, because you know, back in those days, we didn’t know any of this stuff.
950
00:42:59,800 –> 00:43:04,680
Coach Jim Clayton: So when things happened to you that what, you know, made you mad, you’d fight.
951
00:43:09,920 –> 00:43:11,279
Coach Jim Clayton: That was our mentality.
952
00:43:11,279 –> 00:43:12,400
Coach Jim Clayton: That’s not a good mentality.
953
00:43:12,480 –> 00:43:15,920
Coach Jim Clayton: By any way means importantly against it.
954
00:43:15,799 –> 00:43:19,160
Coach Jim Clayton: But, you know, I didn’t have ways of coping with these things.
955
00:43:19,160 –> 00:43:20,839
Coach Jim Clayton: I didn’t know ways of coping with.
956
00:43:20,839 –> 00:43:22,839
Coach Jim Clayton: They didn’t teach this stuff in school.
957
00:43:22,839 –> 00:43:23,960
Randy Black: No.
958
00:43:23,960 –> 00:43:26,359
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, I’ve taught a lot of this in my class.
959
00:43:26,359 –> 00:43:29,079
Coach Jim Clayton: Hey, coach, you’re teaching life lessons.
960
00:43:29,700 –> 00:43:31,940
Coach Jim Clayton: Well, yeah.
961
00:43:31,940 –> 00:43:32,420
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.
962
00:43:32,420 –> 00:43:34,660
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, that’s what it’s all about.
963
00:43:34,660 –> 00:43:40,819
Coach Jim Clayton: I mean, you know, I’m not worried about whether I can diagram a sentence right now.
964
00:43:41,440 –> 00:43:44,960
Coach Jim Clayton: But back in the day, that was an important thing.
965
00:43:44,960 –> 00:43:47,040
Coach Jim Clayton: You fucked if you didn’t know how to do that.
966
00:43:47,360 –> 00:43:53,280
Coach Jim Clayton: But you look back at that and you just go, you know, uh I’m gonna fight
967
00:43:53,980 –> 00:43:55,500
Coach Jim Clayton: In a different way.
968
00:43:55,660 –> 00:43:57,420
Coach Jim Clayton: Not fisticuffs.
969
00:43:57,420 –> 00:44:00,140
Coach Jim Clayton: I’m gonna fight with all my heart.
970
00:44:00,140 –> 00:44:02,140
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, I’m gonna give it my best.
971
00:44:02,140 –> 00:44:03,260
Coach Jim Clayton: That’s my attitude.
972
00:44:03,260 –> 00:44:04,540
Coach Jim Clayton: That’s my effort
973
00:44:04,900 –> 00:44:08,500
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, and you can get through this.
974
00:44:08,500 –> 00:44:10,260
Coach Jim Clayton: You just gotta believe you can.
975
00:44:10,260 –> 00:44:12,180
Coach Jim Clayton: And those are the three things right there.
976
00:44:12,180 –> 00:44:13,780
Coach Jim Clayton: Attitude, effort, and belief.
977
00:44:13,780 –> 00:44:14,180
Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm
978
00:44:14,720 –> 00:44:16,400
Coach Jim Clayton: That’s what you try to change.
979
00:44:17,119 –> 00:44:21,920
Coach Jim Clayton: Kids today just don’t really hear those three words except in a negative sense.
980
00:44:21,920 –> 00:44:22,720
Randy Black: Right.
981
00:44:23,539 –> 00:44:24,819
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.
982
00:44:24,819 –> 00:44:28,900
Coach Jim Clayton: So that’s what I would say to a young version of me.
983
00:44:28,980 –> 00:44:37,700
Randy Black: So what’s one thing that you hope the people listening to this podcast today take away from your story?
984
00:44:37,799 –> 00:44:42,599
Coach Jim Clayton: That tough times don’t la tough times happen, but they don’t define you.
985
00:44:42,599 –> 00:44:43,720
Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.
986
00:44:43,720 –> 00:44:44,359
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?
987
00:44:44,359 –> 00:44:45,640
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, it’s like you got some
988
00:44:45,940 –> 00:44:48,900
Coach Jim Clayton: gentleman today said, you can’t let cancer define you.
989
00:44:48,900 –> 00:44:50,820
Coach Jim Clayton: You can’t let a setback define you.
990
00:44:50,820 –> 00:44:53,140
Coach Jim Clayton: You can’t let a broken neck define you.
991
00:44:53,140 –> 00:44:55,140
Coach Jim Clayton: You can’t let those things happen.
992
00:44:54,660 –> 00:44:56,100
Coach Jim Clayton: What are you going to do about it?
993
00:44:56,100 –> 00:44:58,660
Coach Jim Clayton: And how is that going to steer you in the right direction?
994
00:44:58,660 –> 00:44:59,700
Coach Jim Clayton: Because it will.
995
00:45:00,100 –> 00:45:02,260
Coach Jim Clayton: If you pay attention to the signs.
996
00:45:02,260 –> 00:45:02,660
Coach Jim Clayton: Yes.
997
00:45:02,660 –> 00:45:05,380
Coach Jim Clayton: See the signs along the way.
998
00:45:05,420 –> 00:45:09,100
Coach Jim Clayton: And sometimes we don’t see the signs because we’re going too fast.
999
00:45:09,500 –> 00:45:13,740
Coach Jim Clayton: And driver’s ed, which I taught for a long time, that’s called speed smear.
1000
00:45:13,740 –> 00:45:17,100
Coach Jim Clayton: The faster to go, the less you can see on site.
1001
00:45:17,900 –> 00:45:28,540
Coach Jim Clayton: And you know, it’s that peripheral vision, the ability to look out and see side to side that helps you get a better vision of where you’re going and what you’re going to do.
1002
00:45:29,440 –> 00:45:31,920
Coach Jim Clayton: And that’s what I would say to people, man.
1003
00:45:31,920 –> 00:45:35,280
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, that that’s just I think that’s huge.
1004
00:45:35,280 –> 00:45:37,599
Coach Jim Clayton: And that’s that’s undertaught
1005
00:45:39,380 –> 00:45:41,780
Coach Jim Clayton: And overdone by people today.
1006
00:45:41,780 –> 00:45:42,820
Coach Jim Clayton: We don’t teach it.
1007
00:45:42,820 –> 00:45:43,540
Randy Black: Yeah.
1008
00:45:43,540 –> 00:45:44,660
Coach Jim Clayton: We don’t teach it.
1009
00:45:45,380 –> 00:45:47,620
Coach Jim Clayton: We just expect it’s gonna happen.
1010
00:45:47,620 –> 00:45:49,140
Coach Jim Clayton: Well guess what?
1011
00:45:49,140 –> 00:45:49,940
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s not
1012
00:45:51,080 –> 00:45:52,600
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s not gonna show up.
1013
00:45:52,600 –> 00:45:55,160
Coach Jim Clayton: Everything just didn’t show up, doesn’t show up.
1014
00:45:55,160 –> 00:45:56,920
Coach Jim Clayton: It shows up for reasons.
1015
00:45:57,160 –> 00:45:59,080
Coach Jim Clayton: And I call that preparation
1016
00:46:00,420 –> 00:46:05,540
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, and I always use the six P’s of success that I learned from my coach in college.
1017
00:46:05,540 –> 00:46:08,500
Coach Jim Clayton: I walked in one day and he goes, Coach, you know the six P’s?
1018
00:46:08,740 –> 00:46:10,980
Coach Jim Clayton: I said, No, I do not know the six Ps.
1019
00:46:11,540 –> 00:46:13,780
Coach Jim Clayton: He says, repeat after me.
1020
00:46:14,260 –> 00:46:15,540
Coach Jim Clayton: Didn’t have any choice.
1021
00:46:15,540 –> 00:46:23,060
Coach Jim Clayton: I said, prior, proper planning prevents poor performance.
1022
00:46:23,060 –> 00:46:23,859
Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.
1023
00:46:24,359 –> 00:46:25,960
Coach Jim Clayton: He said, could you say that fast?
1024
00:46:25,960 –> 00:46:28,359
Coach Jim Clayton: Prior, proper planning, prevents poor performance.
1025
00:46:28,359 –> 00:46:33,160
Coach Jim Clayton: Every day for 18 weeks of that semester.
1026
00:46:33,140 –> 00:46:36,900
Coach Jim Clayton: I walk in, sit down, he’d look at me and go, point his finger.
1027
00:46:36,900 –> 00:46:39,539
Coach Jim Clayton: I go, proper proper planning prevents poor performance.
1028
00:46:39,539 –> 00:46:40,099
Randy Black: Yep.
1029
00:46:40,099 –> 00:46:45,140
Coach Jim Clayton: So in other words, whatever you’re ready for, that’s what’s going to show up.
1030
00:46:46,560 –> 00:46:53,040
Coach Jim Clayton: Every day, every minute, every hour, for the rest of your life.
1031
00:46:53,040 –> 00:46:54,000
Coach Jim Clayton: Nice.
1032
00:46:54,660 –> 00:46:58,340
Coach Jim Clayton: That’s the end of the story, as Paul Harving would say.
1033
00:46:59,540 –> 00:47:04,820
Randy Black: So that means it’s time for Jimmy’s Wisdom of the Week.
1034
00:47:06,080 –> 00:47:09,520
Cheesy Announcer Guy: Now it’s time for Jimmy’s Wisdom of the Week.
1035
00:47:09,520 –> 00:47:16,480
Cheesy Announcer Guy: This is where Jimmy shares one of his famous Jimmy-isms to inspire the listener.
1036
00:47:16,480 –> 00:47:19,520
Randy Black: Okay, so the Jimmyism for this week that you gave me was somewhat
1037
00:47:20,600 –> 00:47:25,080
Randy Black: Someone else is happy with less than you have.
1038
00:47:25,080 –> 00:47:26,280
Randy Black: What’s that mean?
1039
00:47:26,280 –> 00:47:27,880
Coach Jim Clayton: Ooh, that’s a good one.
1040
00:47:27,880 –> 00:47:31,960
Coach Jim Clayton: Because you know, we all get stuck on that me, me, me, me, and not we, we, we, we.
1041
00:47:31,960 –> 00:47:33,320
Coach Jim Clayton: I said, think about this.
1042
00:47:33,320 –> 00:47:34,200
Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.
1043
00:47:34,839 –> 00:47:38,359
Coach Jim Clayton: You come into life with nothing.
1044
00:47:38,359 –> 00:47:39,160
Randy Black: Right.
1045
00:47:39,480 –> 00:47:42,920
Coach Jim Clayton: You go out of this life with nothing.
1046
00:47:43,079 –> 00:47:43,640
Coach Jim Clayton: Nothing.
1047
00:47:43,960 –> 00:47:49,160
Coach Jim Clayton: But you spend your entire life chasing.
1048
00:47:48,940 –> 00:47:52,780
Coach Jim Clayton: The things that really don’t mean the most.
1049
00:47:52,780 –> 00:47:58,300
Coach Jim Clayton: How big a house you live in, how big a car you drive, what’s the status quo?
1050
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Coach Jim Clayton: I gotta keep up with the Joneses.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And when you look at that, you see, that’s why people have this attitude.
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Coach Jim Clayton: You don’t have to have everything in life to be happy
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Coach Jim Clayton: And here’s a kicker to the deal right here.
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Coach Jim Clayton: If you’re not happy, what else is?
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Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.
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Coach Jim Clayton: That’s how it is.
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Coach Jim Clayton: If you’re not happy, what else is it?
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Coach Jim Clayton: So you know what I encourage all of you guys?
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Coach Jim Clayton: Be happy.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Be happy for other people.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Which most people can’t.
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Randy Black: It’s tough for a lot of people.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And be happy with what you’re doing, but understand you can always do better.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And you can always be happy.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Because it ain’t what you got.
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Coach Jim Clayton: It’s what you do with what you have.
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Coach Jim Clayton: It doesn’t matter if you have a lot or less.
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Randy Black: Yeah.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Hey, love.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Love your neighbor, love yourself, be happy for other people, smile, pass it on, you know what I mean?
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Coach Jim Clayton: So when they see you,
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Coach Jim Clayton: When you lead a life of significance, here’s how you know.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Not a great life, but a life of significance.
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Coach Jim Clayton: When you’re gone, they’ll always wish you were there.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Yep.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Because you were significant in their life.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Exactly.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Not just valuable in their life.
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Coach Jim Clayton: They miss you when you’re not there.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Even though you’re not there, they still miss you.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And they don’t forget about you.
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Coach Jim Clayton: That’s significance.
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Coach Jim Clayton: That’s what I got to say about that.
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Randy Black: So
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Randy Black: Thank you, Jim, for being open and honest about this really defining moment in your life.
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Randy Black: You know, it’s it’s it’s a story that it’s not just about the physical recovery.
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Randy Black: It’s about the strength that it took to keep going when everything says you can’t.
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Randy Black: You know, if if
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Randy Black: If you’re listening to this episode and you’ve had your own setbacks in your life that have that that you’ve been able to overcome adversity, been able to move forward, we would love
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Randy Black: To hear your story.
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Randy Black: 100%.
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Randy Black: So head over to the website, leave us a comment on the post for this episode.
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Randy Black: The address for that is shooting itstraight podcast.
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Randy Black: com/slash zero zero four.
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Randy Black: Or there’s a contact form on our website where you can send in an email.
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Randy Black: We would love to not only hear from you about what you’ve been able to overcome.
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Randy Black: But we’d also love it if you’d be willing to be on the show that we can feature you on here about it.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And don’t be afraid to reflect on that.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Because people need stories are powerful.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And your story is very, very important.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So don’t think it’s not.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?
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Coach Jim Clayton: Because it is.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And it’s a teaching moment.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And what you’re going to say in that story, I’ll guarantee you.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I’m going to take something out of that and I’m going to pass it forward into somebody else that’s going to help them.
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Coach Jim Clayton: When you’re helping other people, again, it doesn’t get any better, adding value to people.
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Randy Black: So on our next episode, we’re going to be joined by Dr.
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Randy Black: Brad Miller.
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Randy Black: We had the chance to chat with him.
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Randy Black: He’s the host of the Cancer and Comedy Podcast.
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Randy Black: And
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Randy Black: He’s going to share how he found purpose and laughter in the middle of his own cancer journey.
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Randy Black: It’s a conversation about mindset, about humor.
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Randy Black: And chasing or sorry, choosing to to rise up even when life brings you down to your knees and you’re not going to miss, don’t not want to miss that at all is a fantastic conversation.
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Randy Black: So we’re going to finish up.
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Randy Black: We’re going to call this one a done deal.
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Randy Black: I’m Randy Black.
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Randy Black: I’m Coach Jim Clayton.
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Randy Black: And we hope you have a great week and that you’ll come back and join us for the next one.
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Randy Black: If you’ve enjoyed today’s episode, make sure to subscribe, share it with someone who needs a boost, and follow us online at shootingitstraightpodcast.
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Randy Black: com.
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Randy Black: That’s where you’ll find every episode, updates, and more.
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Coach Jim Clayton: You miss a shot?
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Coach Jim Clayton: Get back on date.
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Coach Jim Clayton: You get not
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Coach Jim Clayton: Down, get back up.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Life’s not about staying permanent.
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Coach Jim Clayton: It’s about staying in the game.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And remember, keep shooting it straight.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Bam, son!
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Coach Jim Clayton: Woo!
