Sean Mock
Episode 84
7 SEP 2020
The Director of Player Development and Recruiting Coordinator for the Tulane University men’s basketball team, a position that he took approximately a year-and-a-half ago after having been special assistant to the head coach at Georgia State. Before that he served as an assistant coach at Henderson State, which came after a two-year stint at Northwood University where he finished up as associate head coach. He has also been Director of Basketball Operations at Miami University in Ohio, where he had played for four years.
Notable guest quotes:
“I’ve been blessed in the sense that I don’t feel like I’ve ever really had to work a real job in my life. Basketball has always been a big part of what I do, and it’s been able to provide for me and my family for a while now.”
“I was born Catholic, cradle Catholic, both (of) my parents are still together, and they were both Catholics and raised Catholic, so, being Catholic has been a huge part of my life and my faith. I have a younger brother and a younger sister who remain active in the faith as well. And I’ve just been very lucky to have that as the root and the foundation of who I am.”
“I think the biggest thing for me was that my faith — and even as I’ve kind of moved around — my faith has always been the foundation. I always say it’s the one thing in life that is your constant… It’s the one thing that can never be taken away from you.”
“No matter how tough life gets, no matter how frustrating things may be, your faith and God is always what’s going to be there for you. And that’s the part that always I’ve been able to go back to. And to be honest with you, I don’t know how I could’ve done or gotten or dealt with many things without that faith.”
“Basketball is not who I am, at all. It’s what I do.”
“God really doesn’t care whether you win or you lose. Now, He wants you to give your best effort and do the best, ya’ know, use your gifts as He’s given you. But that’s not who you are. It’s what you do and it’s how you use His gifts that matter.”
“What I’ve always enjoyed about the Catholic Mass is the consistency of it. How everywhere you go it’s the same. I know that when I go to Mass in New Orleans, Louisiana, my parents that are near Cincinnati, Ohio, they’re going to that same Mass, they’re hearing the same readings. And to me that’s always been something that’s very comforting.”
“In any part of life, God puts people in front of you at any given moment at any different time and it’s your job to be His hands on earth. And it’s your job to do His work. Somebody once told me that you may, as a person, you may be the only Bible somebody ever reads. So, you have to be ready; when that time comes, you have to be ready.”
“I know God has always taken care of me and He always will.”
“I think that that journey, you gotta trust God and, just, with open arms just follow Him and realize, you know what, it’s in my control but ultimately it really isn’t in my control.”
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