Speaker 1: I've been a big sports fan for as long as
Speaker 1: I can remember. I remember doing homework as a little
Speaker 1: boy listening to baseball games on my radio. But I
Speaker 1: especially like basketball, college basketball, and March Madness. It marks
Speaker 1: the real start of spring. It reminds us that hope
Speaker 1: springs eternal, at least in most of our brackets, especially
Speaker 1: after last year's tournaments were canceled amid the outbreak of
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen. This year's edition of March Madness, it's been
Speaker 1: a real lift to our collective spirits as we continue
Speaker 1: to work together to get through these next few months
Speaker 1: to the light at the end of the tunnel. For me,
Speaker 1: it's been especially fun to see the University of Arkansas
Speaker 1: playing in both the men's and women's tournaments, and to
Speaker 1: see my alma mater, Georgetown make the men's brackets after
Speaker 1: they're through only run in the Big East. My old
Speaker 1: friend Patrick Ewing is smiling. Premier to hear looking down
Speaker 1: on us is my old friend John Thompson. He's happy
Speaker 1: to so. Why am I telling you this Because for
Speaker 1: so many people across America around the world, sports are
Speaker 1: often about much more than just playing a game. Sports
Speaker 1: teach us about teamwork, self improvement, leadership, endurance, about winning
Speaker 1: and losing with grace and dignity, And as we've seen
Speaker 1: over the last year, athletes can be particularly impactful when
Speaker 1: they use their platform to advocate for social justice and change.
Speaker 1: At their very best, sports lift up our common humanity,
Speaker 1: help people to connect across borders, generations, gender, race, and
Speaker 1: all the lines that might otherwise divide us. Today, for
Speaker 1: the special March Madness edition of Why Am I telling
Speaker 1: You This? I want to share a conversation with someone
Speaker 1: I deeply admire, Don Staley. Since two thousand and eight,
Speaker 1: Don has coached the South Carolina Gamecocks women's basketball team,
Speaker 1: which earned a number one seed in this year's tournament.
Speaker 1: This conversation was recorded in twenty and you will hear
Speaker 1: how she's always been driven by a desire to make
Speaker 1: a positive difference in other people's lives through her philanthropic
Speaker 1: work or coaching career and her powerful example. Don Staley
Speaker 1: is a remarkable woman, and I hope you'll enjoy this
Speaker 1: conversation with a true Hall of Famer on and off
Speaker 1: the court. I'll never forget visiting the athletes ahead of
Speaker 1: the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, and
Speaker 1: seeing men and women from countries all around the globe,
Speaker 1: some of whom were bitter enemies, sitting with one another
Speaker 1: in the dining hall of the Olympic Village, sharing meals
Speaker 1: and slowly breaking the eyes that divided them. This was
Speaker 1: opening day for the Olympic Games in Atlanta. President Clinton
Speaker 1: and his family were welcomed by athletes from around the
Speaker 1: world as he toured the facilities. President Clinton praised American
Speaker 1: athletes at the Olympic Village. I want you to win
Speaker 1: all the mods to camp, and I want you to
Speaker 1: mop up and do great, But I want you to
Speaker 1: realize that just by being what you already are, you
Speaker 1: are a source of enormous pride to our country and
Speaker 1: an inspiration to the world. And I hope tonight at
Speaker 1: these next couple of weeks of the greatest time of
Speaker 1: your life. Today, I'm joined by one of the athletes
Speaker 1: who won goal thatt those ninety six Summer Games, Don Saley.
Speaker 1: I first met her when she and her basketball teammates
Speaker 1: came to the White House after their victory. After that,
Speaker 1: she went on to win two more gold medals than
Speaker 1: two thousand and two thousand four, to have an accomplished
Speaker 1: career playing and the women's NBA, to become one of
Speaker 1: the greatest coaches in the country, leading the University of
Speaker 1: South Carolina since two thousand and eight, including winning the
Speaker 1: school's first national championship in ten. But more than being
Speaker 1: a great basketball player and coach, Don Staley is a
Speaker 1: great person. I've had the chance to travel throughout Africa
Speaker 1: where here visiting some of our foundations programs, and it's
Speaker 1: clear that she's driven by desire to make a positive
Speaker 1: difference in other people's lives, from her players to the fans,
Speaker 1: to the countless people benefiting from her own philanthropic work
Speaker 1: and her powerful example. Don, it's great to talk to
Speaker 1: you today. It's so great to talk to you, President Clinton.
Speaker 1: You're one of the most decorated athletes and coaches of
Speaker 1: all time. You're an All American, you played for the
Speaker 1: American Basketball League, the w n b A, you remember
Speaker 1: the Basketball Hall of Fame, an Olympic athlete and flag bearer,
Speaker 1: head coach at Temple, now at South Carolina. How did
Speaker 1: this happen? What does basketball meant to you, both personally
Speaker 1: as well as professionally. Well, basketball has been and incredible resource.
Speaker 1: It's been my safe haven. Growing up in in North
Speaker 1: Philly and the projects called the Raymond Rosen Housing Projects
Speaker 1: was a place in which there wasn't a whole lot
Speaker 1: to do besides sports or getting something that's that's illegal
Speaker 1: or that can leave a negative impact on your life.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm known for playing basketball, but if anyone
Speaker 1: that knew me growing up in North Philly on Diamond Street,
Speaker 1: they knew I played tackle football, I played softball, I
Speaker 1: played baseball. I did everything the guys were doing. I
Speaker 1: grew up with three brothers and one sister, and all
Speaker 1: of us were super competitive. And if seven of us,
Speaker 1: that's my my siblings and my parents lived in this
Speaker 1: three bedroom house with one bathroom, so you had to
Speaker 1: compete to go in and take a shower. I didn't
Speaker 1: win very many of those battles. I had to compete
Speaker 1: because I'm the youngest to you know, to get socks
Speaker 1: and shoes. The one thing, the one thing that I
Speaker 1: had to make sure that none of my oldest siblings
Speaker 1: got to were my socks. I'm a sock fiend. I
Speaker 1: had to have my my white, pure white sox, and
Speaker 1: my seam had to line up with my toes, and
Speaker 1: if any of my siblings wore any of my socks,
Speaker 1: I knew. So I come from a competitive family, and
Speaker 1: I'm very fortunate that I used sports as a vehicle
Speaker 1: defeat into that competitiveness. But when I first received my
Speaker 1: my college letter, just interest letter, which was somewhere between
Speaker 1: the seventh and eighth grade, I knew basketball was gonna
Speaker 1: be the ticket to get me to all the pages
Speaker 1: and books that I read and imagined visiting. How did
Speaker 1: your life affect how you coach? Um, I would say,
Speaker 1: I'm probably the opposite of how I grew up and
Speaker 1: how I coach. How I grew up, I was an introvert.
Speaker 1: I was extremely shy, and I wasn't verbal. I didn't
Speaker 1: use a lot of my verbal skills. UM. I went
Speaker 1: to the University of Virginia, where it's a predominantly white university.
Speaker 1: I grew up in the projects. It was predominantly actually
Speaker 1: not predominant. It was all black, you know. So my
Speaker 1: first experiences, even with people outside of my race, all
Speaker 1: happened at the University of Virginia. When I got to Virginia,
Speaker 1: I didn't quite know. I didn't think I fit in
Speaker 1: with Virginia. As far as what happened outside the basketball court. One,
Speaker 1: it was just I was young. Two Again, I was shy,
Speaker 1: and I was an introvert. So I wasn't easily approachable
Speaker 1: because again it's the trust thing. I had to be
Speaker 1: able to trust you. I had to be able to
Speaker 1: allow you into my space. And I did not do
Speaker 1: that very easily after University of Virginia. So for me
Speaker 1: being uncomfortable, you get more comfortable because I had a
Speaker 1: an experience at Virginia during my first year of college
Speaker 1: where I did not do well and something that I
Speaker 1: applied myself too. Um, So it made me extremely uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: I did have a dean. I had to sit down
Speaker 1: with a dean and she pretty much threatened to throw
Speaker 1: me out of the University of Virginia because I didn't
Speaker 1: perform well. And I'm sitting across from her. Again, I'm shy, UM,
Speaker 1: an introvert. You know, I didn't. I wasn't very comfortable
Speaker 1: in my skin, wasn't comfortable talking to adults that I
Speaker 1: didn't trust. Um. So all of these nonverbals that I
Speaker 1: was giving off really didn't sit well with the dean.
Speaker 1: So my coach really had to help me out. She
Speaker 1: had to have that little pep talk with me and said,
Speaker 1: you know, you basically gotta you know, you gotta look
Speaker 1: people in their eye. You have to you have to conform.
Speaker 1: And I wasn't. I wasn't big on conforming because I
Speaker 1: you know, I wasn't one that liked to live in
Speaker 1: a box or um. So that word really took me,
Speaker 1: took me back. So I said, I'm not gonna kiss
Speaker 1: anybody's but this is the way I am. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna change for anybody. And little did I know what
Speaker 1: I was saying and what I was doing at the
Speaker 1: time really was one of the crossroads in my life
Speaker 1: where I had to stop. I had to think about
Speaker 1: what I wanted my life to be without basketball, and
Speaker 1: that's when it hit me, you gotta, you have to conform.
Speaker 1: This is the way that you have to exist at
Speaker 1: the University of Virginia and it helped me um now
Speaker 1: as a coach. I think certain things happened to me
Speaker 1: throughout my life that has helped me get more comfortable
Speaker 1: with dealing with you know, just across cultural lines. All
Speaker 1: of those life lessons I look back on it has
Speaker 1: helped me to be able to to come to a
Speaker 1: place that's predominantly white and unify and reach go across
Speaker 1: different ethnic backgrounds and and be able to hear people,
Speaker 1: talk to people, be comfortable in my skin, and then
Speaker 1: and let them see me for who I am. And
Speaker 1: I you know, I always reflect on my days back
Speaker 1: in Virginia know that, um I would sent there for
Speaker 1: a reason other than basketball. I've heard you say before
Speaker 1: that you think it's important that there'll be more black
Speaker 1: coaches in your game. You still feel that way, and
Speaker 1: why is it so important? Well, I absolutely do feel
Speaker 1: like not not just coaches, head coaches, I feel like
Speaker 1: there should be more black coaches to coach individual one basketball,
Speaker 1: women's basketball, because how the makeup of our sport is
Speaker 1: predominantly black. I don't know the breakdown of the numbers,
Speaker 1: but I know it's it's more than fifty. And if
Speaker 1: it's more than they need role models. And here's why,
Speaker 1: because no one other than a black woman can teach
Speaker 1: another black woman how to be a black woman in America.
Speaker 1: It's quite simple. There's there's certain things that they're gonna
Speaker 1: go through in their life and they're going to experience
Speaker 1: throughout their life that they're gonna have to handle like
Speaker 1: I've handled in my experiences, good, better and different. I
Speaker 1: think I can be a great example of showing them
Speaker 1: of of giving them advice that they'll need to be
Speaker 1: safe or to have an incredible career in whatever profession
Speaker 1: they decide to go in. Thank you for making that point.
Speaker 1: I think it's important that people understand that. You know
Speaker 1: that the best coaches don't just coach their players when
Speaker 1: they're on the court or a field. They coach them
Speaker 1: when they're off the court, and they think about their
Speaker 1: life after they're out of their one lost column. We'll
Speaker 1: be right back. Well, let me ask you something. I
Speaker 1: I like to watch basketball. I like to watch women's basketball,
Speaker 1: and I try to watch you and your team every
Speaker 1: time you're on television. I'm very interested in how various
Speaker 1: coaches relate to their players, have related to the crowd,
Speaker 1: relate to the referees, especially when they're intense situations. And
Speaker 1: one of the things I've noticed about you is that
Speaker 1: you seem to be very careful and sparing about the
Speaker 1: times you jump up and down. I've seen you in
Speaker 1: games that are really tight and the other coaches walking
Speaker 1: up and down the sideline and you're just sitting there
Speaker 1: staring looking at the players, trying to figure out what's
Speaker 1: going on. What is is that deliberate? Do you have
Speaker 1: a deliberate style when you're in the public eye about
Speaker 1: how you talk to your players and how you're seen
Speaker 1: by the audience and by the referees and by your
Speaker 1: own players and by the other team to be conducting
Speaker 1: yourself well, I think what happens to me is I
Speaker 1: want to be my authentic self. I want to be
Speaker 1: my authentic self when I'm coaching. I want to be
Speaker 1: my authentic self when I'm off the floor and I'm
Speaker 1: talking to a young person. I think I have a
Speaker 1: way of being appropriate doing appropriate times. But I'm myself.
Speaker 1: I want to sleep well at night knowing that by myself.
Speaker 1: So when I'm on the sidelines, I try to figure
Speaker 1: out what's the pulse of the game. So we want
Speaker 1: to we want to pick the face up. Okay, we're
Speaker 1: gonna it out into the passion lines and don't let
Speaker 1: them off the hook, make them work for everything. How
Speaker 1: are officials calling the game? And what are my colleagues
Speaker 1: doing beside me? What's the opponent and the coaching said?
Speaker 1: What do they What does it look like, what does
Speaker 1: the crowd feeding off? I look at my players eyes,
Speaker 1: and I want to see that fire in their eyes.
Speaker 1: I want to see that they are locked into the
Speaker 1: task at hands. Every opportunity you can grow, grow, every
Speaker 1: opportunity you can lead, lead, Okay, and then I take
Speaker 1: my place after seeing all those things. If we can't
Speaker 1: get a day, sometimes I do get up and I
Speaker 1: talk to officials. Sometimes I scream at them. Sometimes I
Speaker 1: say some things that I probably shouldn't say, but it's
Speaker 1: my authentic self. I do sometimes sit down and just
Speaker 1: let the game come to me. Trust our players, Trust
Speaker 1: our players, And I will tell you this, President Clinton.
Speaker 1: Is that a lot of times when I'm yelling at
Speaker 1: officials and I'm self assessing because this is what I do.
Speaker 1: If I'm yelling at officials about a certain call, I know,
Speaker 1: for me, the root of why I'm yelling at official
Speaker 1: is probably because I don't trust my team in those instances.
Speaker 1: And I have to do a better job at trust
Speaker 1: of my team and putting that energy that I'm giving
Speaker 1: to the officials to my team. How do you think
Speaker 1: basketball women's basketball, particularly is different from when you played
Speaker 1: in college. How is it changing, where's it going? Well,
Speaker 1: women's basketball is a lot different from I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: mention this. It's almost thirty thirty years from when I played.
Speaker 1: And I know some of my old school buddies will
Speaker 1: say that UH will beg to differ and that I
Speaker 1: think it's better. And here's why. They're quicker, they're stronger,
Speaker 1: they are more skilled, and they're more skilled than all
Speaker 1: those things because of what they've been able to see.
Speaker 1: The w n B A I believe, is starting their
Speaker 1: twenty third year, and when the little girls have seen
Speaker 1: twenty three years of women play professionally, that's the carrot
Speaker 1: that's been dangling in front of them for all of
Speaker 1: their lives. When I was growing up, we only had
Speaker 1: the NBA, you know, and that's that was a far
Speaker 1: gone conclusion that we weren't gonna be, you know, in
Speaker 1: the in the NBA. So I would give the new
Speaker 1: schoolers an edge on the old schoolers only because they
Speaker 1: they've seen it. I think the other thing is, I
Speaker 1: think the strength level of these players is expanded enormously. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, because every everybody has a trainer. Now, you know,
Speaker 1: some of them are taking care of their bodies a
Speaker 1: lot better because they want to play longer, they want
Speaker 1: to play as long as they can, and their careers
Speaker 1: have been extended because of that. You know, the longevity
Speaker 1: of a w NBA career, it's it's more years than previous,
Speaker 1: but it's it's it's much harder to get into the
Speaker 1: w n b A nowadays because there are only one
Speaker 1: hundred and forty four ops. And that's not to say
Speaker 1: that there's always a hundred and forty four available because
Speaker 1: you have pros that that have been in the game.
Speaker 1: I would say, and I think I talked to a
Speaker 1: couple of GM to the w n b A, they're
Speaker 1: only probably maybe ten to twenty new jobs available if
Speaker 1: that for someone that's leaving college and going into the
Speaker 1: w n b A, and that that percentage is very low.
Speaker 1: So I tried to extend that percentage to our players
Speaker 1: because everybody is not going to be a professional athlete.
Speaker 1: So we gotta get this degree. We gotta learn how
Speaker 1: to navigate through life just in case, just in case
Speaker 1: it doesn't work out on the professional basketball level. Tell
Speaker 1: me about the Olympics. How did it affect your life?
Speaker 1: How is it different from all the other contests you
Speaker 1: were in the Olympic Games um growing up in on
Speaker 1: those same projects. I only saw women play two times
Speaker 1: on television. One was the n C Double A Final
Speaker 1: Four Women's Final Four, and the other one was the
Speaker 1: Summer Olympic Games. And I wanted to do both. I
Speaker 1: wanted to be a national champion. I wanted to be
Speaker 1: a gold medalist. So the Olympics and playing for USA
Speaker 1: Basketball is basketball utopia. The culture of USA Basketball, the friendships,
Speaker 1: the sisterhood that are created because we didn't care, and
Speaker 1: we don't care. You know, who scores the most points,
Speaker 1: who gets the most rebounds. The one goal for us
Speaker 1: is to win basketball games, to do it together. And
Speaker 1: at the end of the two week period of planning
Speaker 1: Olympic Games is that we're standing on that podium and
Speaker 1: we're receiving gold because there's so much pressure to win gold,
Speaker 1: and we go into it knowing that it's gold or failure.
Speaker 1: So the Olympic Games, the USA Basketball experience is what
Speaker 1: I model my coaching after. It is that I know
Speaker 1: sometimes when you're coaching at the collegiate level, there's so
Speaker 1: many external people and things that get in the way
Speaker 1: of a player totally committing to that common goal. So
Speaker 1: the Olympics is a lot different. And I've coached for
Speaker 1: nineteen years on the collegiate level, I don't think that
Speaker 1: I've ever had a team that had that same type
Speaker 1: of culture. It's they've come close, but not that the
Speaker 1: total culture of giving self to the team. We'll be
Speaker 1: right back. You went to Africa with me and a
Speaker 1: group of people to see the foundation's work that Clinton
Speaker 1: Foundations work to help people get AIDS medication, to help
Speaker 1: farmers improve their yields, to do things to build villages
Speaker 1: that are healthier and get food that's healthier. And you
Speaker 1: agreed to represent and affect women's basketball and going on
Speaker 1: that trip to Africa, and I just like to ask you,
Speaker 1: first of all, do you think it was worth your while?
Speaker 1: And what do you remember most of about the trip
Speaker 1: we took together. First, I don't think I got a
Speaker 1: chance to say thank you, so thank you for that
Speaker 1: life changing experience. I'm a better person because of that
Speaker 1: experience that I had. The people that I experienced it
Speaker 1: with were incredible giving people. And I cried this, this
Speaker 1: tough girl from North Philly cried on that trip. But
Speaker 1: what I what I remember most about it. The hearing aids.
Speaker 1: I saw someone here for the first time in their
Speaker 1: lives and it it just brought tears to my eyes.
Speaker 1: My heart opened for that person. For a deaf person
Speaker 1: to hear a voice they repeated the words that the
Speaker 1: doctor was saying to them, really was heart wrenching for me.
Speaker 1: There are so many people around the world that are
Speaker 1: classified as death because I live in really poor countries
Speaker 1: who are capable of functionally normally if someone helps him
Speaker 1: and I agree with you, man, when you see somebody
Speaker 1: here for the first time, it's breathtaking. That was a
Speaker 1: session we did with one of our c g I partners, Starkey,
Speaker 1: which is basically giving a couple hundred hearing aids to
Speaker 1: people with difficulty hearing a couple hundred thousand a year. Now, mmm,
Speaker 1: you know if it if it weren't for your foundation,
Speaker 1: I don't think there would be as many people living.
Speaker 1: I can remember we went into the hospitals and we saw,
Speaker 1: you know, people getting treated for AIDS and it was
Speaker 1: it was life changing. I came back to the University
Speaker 1: of South Carolina and our team for that particular year
Speaker 1: was be the Change. Be the Change, and I shared
Speaker 1: with my players, what be the change meant to me?
Speaker 1: And we went out into the community and I hope
Speaker 1: we were able to impact some kids and being a
Speaker 1: change in their lives and our lives because it was
Speaker 1: an incredible experience. When can we go back, I'd love
Speaker 1: for you to go back with me. Up, you have
Speaker 1: your own philanthropic effort UH appropriately named. Since started this
Speaker 1: show with the story of your childhood, Inner Soul, tell
Speaker 1: us about Inner Soul and what did it do. Inner
Speaker 1: Soul was birth from a conversation I had one of
Speaker 1: our partners who was doing some some spring cleaning and
Speaker 1: she was gonna throw away some some new shoes that
Speaker 1: she had, and I was like, oh no, don't, don't
Speaker 1: do that, and I just kind of thought about my
Speaker 1: childhood and I'm like, we need to do something. We
Speaker 1: need to do something here in the state of South
Speaker 1: Carolina that will help you know, so many because there's
Speaker 1: a lot of homelessness that's here in the state of
Speaker 1: South Carolina. I said, we need to give out new
Speaker 1: sneakers to homeless children and children who are in need,
Speaker 1: because I know what a new pair of sneakers did
Speaker 1: from me when I was growing up. Because sneakers were
Speaker 1: something that I really enjoyed, and that was the only
Speaker 1: thing that I love. I didn't care what I looked
Speaker 1: like from my ankles up as long as I had
Speaker 1: a new pair of sneakers on. And I know that
Speaker 1: resonates probably all across the country, where if you feel
Speaker 1: like you have a new pair of sneakers on, would
Speaker 1: pay attention a little bit more in class. So it
Speaker 1: raises your self esteem, It makes you feel a lot better.
Speaker 1: It gives you so much confidence. So what we're doing
Speaker 1: now is we're going into elementary schools and we're implementing
Speaker 1: a new initiative called Educate my Soul. And Educate my
Speaker 1: Soul is an initiative that has about five variables. It
Speaker 1: is class attendance, It is behavior, It is reading, it
Speaker 1: is physical fitness and getting good grades. We go into
Speaker 1: these elementary schools and we create a competition between all
Speaker 1: of third grade, all the fourth grade, and all the
Speaker 1: fifth grade, and they compete. So after each grading period,
Speaker 1: we find out what classroom scores the highest and those
Speaker 1: five variables, and we give them a new pair of
Speaker 1: sneakers each grading period. And I just went to two
Speaker 1: today and they open those those bags up with those
Speaker 1: sneakers in it, and again the smiles on their faces
Speaker 1: are quite incredible. So it's a partnership that we had
Speaker 1: with certain schools throughout the state of South Carolina, and
Speaker 1: hopefully we could continue to grow all across this country
Speaker 1: and then hopefully we'll we'll have some sneaks to take
Speaker 1: over to Africa or wherever the Clinton Foundation is is
Speaker 1: servicing young people. I thank you for joining us down,
Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you for your leadership. Thank you for
Speaker 1: making this young girl from North Philadelphia get a chance
Speaker 1: to speak to the forty second president of the United States.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. All of you been listening. You
Speaker 1: now know why I'm telling you this dog. Stayley is
Speaker 1: one of the most impressive and admirable people I've had
Speaker 1: the honor to meet and really get to know since
Speaker 1: I left the White House. One of the great blessings
Speaker 1: of these many years since I left offices that I've
Speaker 1: had a little more time to get to know people,
Speaker 1: take trips with them and make friends with him and uh,
Speaker 1: I think she has done an unbelievable job. It's a
Speaker 1: coach not only on the court, but what's more important
Speaker 1: to me, off the court and as a person Thanks
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