You know, our youth tends to get the short end of the stick, in terms of the investment that’s put into them, while I think it should be the opposite, because they are our future.
There’s a lot of things that you learn from sports. When you’re the father of four daughters ... this becomes not just a belief. It doesn’t become a challenge, but it becomes a passion and it becomes a mission.
Because this is the world that they are going to be growing up in. I want to make sure that they’re growing up in a world better than the one we are currently living in, that’s for sure.
But you’ve got to look to it as, what can really pique the interest of the kid. And what piques their interest is the curiosity of, “Can I do that?” So that’s where the original idea of Mamba League was conceived.
你知道,我们对年轻人投资,他们却往往成为受害者,我认为应该反过来,因为他们是我们的未来。
你可以从体育中学到很多东西。当你是四个女儿的父亲……这不仅仅是一种信念。它不会是挑战,而是一种激情,一种使命。
因为这是他们将要成长的世界。我要确保他们成长在一个比我们现在生活得更好的世界里,这是肯定的。
但你必须这样看待,什么能真正激起孩子的兴趣。激起他们兴趣的是好奇心,“我能做到吗?”这就是成立曼巴联盟的最早的想法。