Terry Tucker
Episode 268
18 MAR 2024
He attended The Citadel on an athletic scholarship, going on to co-captain the men’s basketball team in his senior year and then receiving the Senior Class Sportsmanship Award at graduation. He had played for Marist High School in Chicago and was co-captain and MVP of his team in his senior year and was All-State Honorable Mention. He had also played for St. Charles Prep High School in Columbus, Ohio, playing both for the JV and the varsity basketball teams. He’d started out playing on the St. Anthony Middle School basketball team that won the Boys’ Basketball of America National Championship. More recently he was the varsity coach of the girls basketball team at Emery High School in Houston. He is also the author of a book called, “Sustainable Excellence: Ten Principles to Leading Your Uncommon and Extraordinary Life.”
Notable guest quotes:
“Catholic faith has always been an important part of my life… I was an altar server growing up, loved being an altar server.”
“The Catholic faith has been a huge part of my life… years of trials, tribulations, ups, downs, goods, bad, but keeping God, Jesus, at the center of all that’s been going on.”
“I… went to The Citadel… my youngest brother… pitched for Notre Dame… my middle brother… played for the Cleveland Cavaliers.”
“There was a priest (at college)… and so I would go to Mass every day that I possibly could… and then my junior year I was elected as president of the Citadel Religious Council.”
“I had three knee surgeries in high school… So, playing in college was literally a miracle. I mean, the fact that I had the opportunity to do that after three knee surgeries was absolutely amazing.”
“He says, ‘Terry, I’ve been a doctor for 25 years, and I have never seen the form of cancer that you have.’ And at the time I was told it was a death sentence, that if I received a miracle, I might be alive in five years, but more than likely I would be dead in two years. So, I was given the death sentence and thought well maybe through the grace of God I can turn that death sentence into a life sentence.”
“Humility I just define as service above self – what can I do to make other people’s lives better?”
“The faith, the family, the friendships that I’ve had – which I call my three F’s – those have absolutely kind of melded together.”
“And there’s sort of that old joke that says when we talk to God it’s called prayer; when God talks to us, it’s called schizophrenia. And God never told me to write a book. But I think what God does is, He puts people in your life that start making the suggestion, ‘You should do this. You should write a book’.”
“Our purpose in life should not be to fill ourselves up. Our purpose in life should be to empty ourselves out, certainly for the betterment of ourselves, but also for the betterment of our family, of our friends, of our community, of our country.”
“I say a rosary every day. And I spend at least an hour in prayer.”
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