Out of the Mouth of Babes "Our Future Leaders"
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Out of the Mouth of Babes "Our Future Leaders"
S1 EP9 pt1 - Game Day Beats and Sports Legends Fueling Ambitions
What happens when two of Richmond's brightest athletic talents come together to share their stories? Join us for an engaging chat with Cedric Horton and Ryder Cate, young athletes making waves in basketball and golf. Cedric, a junior, opens up about his journey from a casual basketball player to a determined athlete, while Ryder, a senior with deep roots in golf, talks about balancing his dual sports passions. Discover their daily routines of school, weightlifting, and practice, and hear how they balance the grind with relaxation to keep their performance sharp.
Nutrition plays a crucial part in their success, with Cedric and Ryder revealing their unique dietary practices, from Italian dishes to quirky meals like macaroni and cheese with Gushers. They candidly talk about the pressures of living up to family expectations and the resilience they've developed to tackle performance anxiety. Listen as they recount memorable on-court experiences and the invaluable support from their families and teammates that keeps them motivated, even when the pressure mounts.
Basketball legends and music play a key role in shaping their athletic identities. Cedric and Ryder debate the greatest basketball players of all time, drawing inspiration from icons like Michael Jordan and LeBron James, and celebrate the influence of defensive stalwarts such as Draymond Green. Their pre-game rituals are fueled by the beats of Rod Wave and Lil Baby, setting the mood for game day. As we wrap up, they remind us of the joy in the process, from local leagues to the thrilling anticipation of college prospects, all buoyed by unwavering community support. Tune in to celebrate the dreams and aspirations of these exceptional young athletes.
Welcome to Out of the Mouth of Babes, the podcast for our future leaders. I am so excited today because I got two of Richmond's elite in the room. I'm going to let them introduce themselves. They're going to tell us their first and last name, their GPA, their grade, all the sports they play and anything they want to share with us. I'm just going to turn it over to you.
Speaker 2:My name is Cedric Horton. I'm a junior, I got a 3.4 GPA and I play basketball.
Speaker 3:I'm Ryder Kate. I'm a senior, I got a 3.9 GPA and I play basketball and golf.
Speaker 1:All right, welcome to the podcast for your future leaders. I'm going to just jump right in and start asking y'all questions. Talk to us a little bit about your journey and what inspired you to play sports.
Speaker 2:My journey was interesting. I was just playing sports to play sports pretty much. Then I ended up picking basketball and. I wasn't really good at it. I was just playing it because to me it was fun. Then I started taking it serious and I just kept getting better, kept working and everything took care of itself and I'm gonna interrupt him for a second, because he was also a football player too.
Speaker 1:And man, I got some video. I'm gonna start pulling those videos out the vault. I used to just throw a sweep left to Mason, a sweep right to Zion, and then down the field to Cedric, and then they got hoop dreams. All right, we on you, ryder.
Speaker 3:My story. I just feel like I kind of grew up around basketball and I just went back to Richmond school because I was a community Christian when I was younger and then all my friends played basketball and then it kind of just developed like a love for it. When we started playing all the time it just kind of developed and turned into a stronger love and following my dreams.
Speaker 1:Now, ryder, you're also, and he won't talk a lot about this, but you are an exceptional golf player too, right yeah? So talk to us. I don't know much about it, but where do you hit? Like, tell me how good you are.
Speaker 3:Most people would say I'm pretty decent. But that just kind of came from my parents, my family, my dad, went to Purdue and tried to go pro, so that was kind of always in my family. And then that just kind of turned into more and more as I got older and then I ended up being really good, so it all turned out.
Speaker 1:So, like last year, you participated in golf. And how far did you go? We went to regionals. Okay, now what about individually? You went to regionals as well.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I missed regionals by one shot. I missed state by one shot.
Speaker 1:So this year we can see it, we can hope for a state championship. Yeah, we'll see All righty, all righty, all right. Talk to us a little bit about now. Now to be stellar athletes, that means you guys have to work hard at it, right? Yeah, and talk to me about your daily routine.
Speaker 2:My daily routine is really go to school, go home, get some food I got to eat, and then I might go get some shots up, depending on the day, how I feel. That just depends on how intense I work out. So if I'm feeling good, I might work out pretty good, and then, if I'm not feeling too good my legs hurt or something I might just stretch and get some shots to keep my form right and just go from there, go home, eat some more, probably play the game.
Speaker 3:Yeah, for me. I got weightlifting every single day, and then it's the balance between legs and arms and all that fun stuff. And then get shots up every day, usually like right after school because I got half the A's, and then just try to eat a lot, obviously, and keep getting in the way and get stronger every day.
Speaker 2:I lift every day too, just so that's clear.
Speaker 1:All right. So how do you mentally prepare for the game? So how do you mentally prepare for all of the rigorous um expectations of basketball?
Speaker 2:um, I used to take it seriously. I feel like I took it too seriously. So then I started, you know, chilling out, uh, just taking it like it was just another game. And that's when I started playing my best last year, started seeing off a little shaky, just started I was thinking too much. And then once I just started letting it all go and just pretty much just having fun with it and not really thinking, just playing, that's when I played my best.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I agree, I think it's just you gotta go out there and act like it's just something fun and it's not something so serious, cuz when you start taking it so serious then it just kinda ruins the vibe and start overthinking stuff that you can do easily on a regular basis. And I just try to keep it simple, keep everything simple and just get myself comfortable and acquainted with what I'm doing so I can perform at the best level now.
Speaker 1:I want all our listeners out there to know that, um, I have put my chair up a little higher to to show that I am a little taller than these gentlemen, but how tall are both of you?
Speaker 2:I'm 6'5", but I tell everyone I'm like 6'6", I'm basically the same 6'5", 6'6".
Speaker 1:And I'm 5'11". Nutrition Do you guys have people to help you with your nutrition? Do you go to dieticians or do do you have like a specific meal that gets you energy? And the reason why I asked that question I was my daughter's. My daughter plays ball, as you know, and I seen on the side their coach brings sweet and sour patches for them and they said something about the sugar helps them. I don't know. Talk to me a little bit about your nutrition.
Speaker 2:Really for me. My dad helps me with my nutrition, but all I really got to do is just eat everything I can see, just eat as much as I can while lifting, just so that my lifting will show that I lift. But I just need to start eating more, and pretty much anything gives me energy. But my favorite is Italian food, like some lasagna, some pasta. That gives me the most energy really the secret to my balance I'm not going to lie that macaroni and cheese and Gushers.
Speaker 1:Gushers, macaroni and cheese. Now I'm just going to keep it real macaroni and cheese and Gushers got me up to a little bit over 3. It gives me balance. I'm not going to lie it gives me the bounce.
Speaker 3:I think both my parents are pretty on me about the nutrition and just eating the right things because I can get off the course pretty easily. But I don't know. I try to eat most protein-packed and most calorie-packed things and just try to keep gaining weight because it's a struggle with all the workouts and stuff to keep your weight up.
Speaker 1:So what are some of the challenges you guys have faced in your career, and then how did you guys overcome those challenges?
Speaker 2:I'll say my biggest challenge was probably just feeling like I let my parents down, I'm not doing something good enough and they're just wanting the best for me. So when they get on me, I just take it the wrong way, and pretty much the way I dealt with it was just suck it up, just do it change. Do what they say, change your workouts, do whatever, and the results take care of itself.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I would say the same. Basically it's just underperforming and stuff like that, like taking it too serious once again, just not feeling like you did what you know you can do every day and like you practice it and it just doesn't turn out how you thought it was going to.
Speaker 1:So who are your role models and who do you look up to?
Speaker 2:I would say my biggest role model would be my mom. Just because she's always been there for me, it's not always been good for us. Just growing up and just seeing her persevere and just fight through and then get to where she's at now, it's just I just look up to her. I want to be like her one day, just be able to fight through everything and just be a good mom, a good parent.
Speaker 3:Yeah, mine's probably both my parents my dad and my mom Just watching them work so hard and everything they do and treating me so well, even when stuff in life probably wasn't going great for them. But they never showed it and never took it out on me and always gave me the best opportunity for everything like sports and all that. So I appreciate them and trying to strive to be like them and shout-out to Pops you know, Everything, basketball.
Speaker 2:It's all because of him. My mom's more of life. I go to her when it's about life and basketball. I can go to my dad. I can go to him about life, it don't matter, but I go more to basketball to my dad.
Speaker 1:Just because he does so much research, he knows a lot. So shout out to Pops. So you guys have had some you know up until this point pretty successful last couple of seasons, and with that comes memorable moments. Talk to us a little bit about some memorable moments that you guys have had on the court. Now I've seen some of your memorable moments. There's times where I've seen some of your memorable moments. There's times where I've seen I can be at home and I see a TikTok flash of one of y'all dunking or smacking the ball or something smacking the ball from somebody. But talk to us a little bit about some of those memorable moments.
Speaker 2:I've had a few. One that really sticks out to me was probably winning the wedding. You know, just finally winning that for Richmond, you know we ain't winning. I don't think we won. That was the first time. And just winning our tournament and doing it for the community, that's a very memorable moment to me. Just being able to win it with my friends, doing it with my friends makes it even better. And another one would probably be probably against Franklin County. I had six points that game. I think I had my head down the whole game mad, but just my teammates being there for me telling me I'm good, picking up the load and overperforming, while I was just not playing good and they didn't let that affect them and they just made sure I was straight. So it's just meant a lot to me that they were there for me.
Speaker 3:Yeah, winning the wedding obviously was a great accomplishment for the team. We've been talking about that since we was in second grade and it's just awesome to see that actually come to life. Probably another great memory was just like our first win for Coach Wright. I think that was definitely a crazy thing. It was just crazy to see the community out there and everyone out there to support him and be out there just trying to watch the Richmond basketball game. And I was participating in my freshman year, which was with another coach, and it wasn't the greatest year ever and the greatest experience I ever had. So it was great to be out there with Coach Wright and when he was out there with us, it was just an awesome experience to get a win for him get away from him.
Speaker 1:So you know, one of the things that I know you guys experience is pressure. Right, if you walk into the halls of the Tiernan Center you look on the wall. I remember seeing there's a lot of your family members that graced those halls, graced those Hall of Fames. And I know Ryder, your dad's up there, and you have Cedric, you have several cousins and uncles up there. How do you live up to the pressures of one day wanting to at least grace the hallway with your picture on the wall?
Speaker 2:Honestly, I'm not going to lie. I don't even think about that as much as what you would think. Yeah, I want to be up there one day, but I'm just worried about the present right now. The future is going to take care of itself. So pretty much I'm just playing every game like it's my last game, just so. If I play every game like that, there's no doubt that I should be on that wall. If I keep playing Like every game is my last, yeah, I don't feel like it's a pressure.
Speaker 3:It's just awesome to have all those people around us as we've grown up and stuff, because a bunch of people have been great influences on us in basketball, golf, whatever. It was just trying to get us to work harder and love what we do and just show us that it's an opportunity and we need to take it seriously in all aspects.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I just feel like they're just pushing them. Being up there is just pushing us to be better than them, because a lot of people want to see you succeed, want to see you be better. Some people don't, but the people up there want to see you do better than them. They'll make the same mistakes they made, so they like to tell us a lot about where they messed up or what they could have done better in some situations, just so that we don't make those same mistakes and we thank them for that what advice would you live, you leave to the future red devils, you know, your little brothers and cousins and their friends.
Speaker 1:What would you tell them? Something that they need to start doing now um, uh.
Speaker 2:So my first year I felt like high school gonna take forever, but I'm already a junior now I feel like I was just a freshman yesterday. Just take everything. Don't take it for granted. Just live in the moment and just have fun, because it all goes by in a blink of an eye. It's crazy.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm going to go off that I didn't get a freshman year, basically because of COVID. So just take every single moment in and enjoy it all you can, because it'll be gone so fast, like I'm a senior and I still feel like I'm a freshman, about to start walking the halls. So it's just crazy how fast it goes by. And just enjoy it so much.
Speaker 2:Yeah, be smart with it. Be smart with it. We're not saying just do whatever Like you know, have fun with it, but don't do nothing stupid. Just do whatever Like you know, have fun with it, but don't do nothing stupid.
Speaker 1:So I grew up in an era where there are some really good basketball being played, so I'm going to ask you guys who's your favorite. First of all, who's your all-time favorite basketball players? First, let's start off.
Speaker 2:Who do you think is the greatest basketball player of all?
Speaker 1:time, and who's your all-time favorite?
Speaker 3:I think the greatest of all time. Uh, pressure, go ahead, you go for it.
Speaker 1:Um, my greatest all-time would probably be no, not your, the greatest of all time, and then your favorite, I don't know, shalange, I'm going to go with MJ, just because that's always what I've stood by, and yeah, that's just always what I've stood by.
Speaker 3:But my most personal favorite is Paul George, because the way he handles himself and the way he goes around and can play like every single spot, it doesn't matter, he can defend, defend, score, all that. He's just a great leader all around.
Speaker 2:Goat, yeah, lebron got all the stats. But come on, Michael Jordan. To go to three Pete's, come on, yeah. And then my personal favorite, it's gotta be Kevin Durant greatest score to touch the basketball. Like, who can guard him? No one. Seven foot point guard come on, he's him. I can't mess with him. Who can guard him? No one. Seven-foot point guard Come on, he's him. No one can mess with him.
Speaker 1:I can respect that. So I grew up in the. You know I'm from northwest Indiana and, being from Gary, we got all the Chicago stations. So for us watching the Bulls, it was the Michael Jordan. So we went through that whole era. So, yeah, michael Jordan for me is the greatest of all time. But I also like other players. Now you may not know this, but I dibbled and dabbled in basketball. Now don't let the size fool you, because I got a killer crossover and I got a killer hop, step over your head.
Speaker 1:Hey man, you better ask somebody. But I'm really known for fouling, so I'll just keep it real with you. If you come in the paint, you're going to hit the ground, at least the first time.
Speaker 1:That's what everyone always says I'm trying to tell you and I wouldn't do it with y'all because I mess around and I don't want to hurt you but back in the day I was known for that. But I like Dennis Rodman, I like those type of guys who, embodied like working hard, didn't necessarily care about scoring, but what they really cared about was rebounding and playing defense. So if you were to ask me who are my, you know my favorites. Now I don't see a lot of those type of guys nowadays. Now you guys may watch more basketball, but are there guys out there like those guys?
Speaker 2:There is, but there's not as many as there used to be, just because a lot of people now think winning a game is scoring 30 points. But there's a lot of little things you can do. But a lot of people just think I just got scored 30 points, we're going to win. But some people have different roles, whether that be I just need to rebound, play some defense or just pass the ball, assist, not turn it over. But a lot of people just think going out and getting 30 points is a good thing. It's really not, unless you've got that role.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think the Warriors got a lot of guys that can work really hard, like they do a good job recruiting guys like Draymond and Gary Payton and all of them recruiting guys like Draymond and Gary Payton all of them. I think they recruit very well. If you watch some of their games, you can see some of those guys.
Speaker 1:I would say Draymond does kind of embody that. He's gonna get up in your face and kind of bully you around. Music you guys are this generation of music. What do you guys listen to? If you had before a game, who's in the? I was about to a game. Who's in the? I was about to say who's in the cd player? I tell you my age, but who's on the iphone?
Speaker 2:this is a surprising one, but, rodway, I'm not gonna lie, rodway, be in my ear, rodway he in my ears, he give me right.
Speaker 1:I don't even know who that is. You don't need he's the best.
Speaker 3:He's the best can you hey?
Speaker 1:let me hear song. What's the name of the song?
Speaker 2:I listened to a song called MJ Story. You know that's one that gets me right. Is it like a slow song? Nah, a lot of his music is slow. It's more like you know, chill out Singing. Really he likes to sing.
Speaker 4:Okay, that'd be going on before the game. That's one song I play for every game. Honestly, that song is on the other time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, let's rock and roll, say I'm the good bro Stealing out the store. Not no more, this ain't for the soul to keep. No, well, now you know, know, they want me gone, but they waited too long. Okay, rest in peace, big mama. Look, I did something with my life. I fell on my face a couple times but finally got it right. Shout out to my team. They know that this wasn't overnight Up and down the interstate in the store on a Friday, sorry, okay, alright, he takes my phone. Talking breezy, she ain't never seen me. Better, cut on the TV, tell her such a teenage dirtbag.
Speaker 1:Alrighty Rahway. What about you, ryder?
Speaker 3:Nah, I'm not around, anything he's doing.
Speaker 4:He a hater I got.
Speaker 3:Usually, usually it's probably probably like Lil Baby. I knew he was going to say that, yeah, lil Baby is my guy, but maybe, yeah, it's basically Lil Baby, it's all Lil Baby.
Speaker 1:What song Lil Baby, give me the best one, it doesn't even matter.
Speaker 3:Any of them.
Speaker 1:What's the one that's the most popular one? I like that one.
Speaker 3:Not this one, skip. This is kind of sad.
Speaker 1:Next one what's the one, that the one, that's the popular one you gotta turn on that freestyle. No, the one that he's the one he's talking about. I don't know like life matters that one, oh, you're talking about, damn.
Speaker 2:Kyle, you crazy, I don't know. But hey, all you talking about Bigger Picture, yeah, Bigger Picture.
Speaker 1:Play that one.
Speaker 2:You gotta play that freestyle. That's the best one Before a game. I'm not gonna lie, I listen to freestyle before the game too. She be in the loop. Yeah, he's the best to do it Stop.
Speaker 1:We're going to have a conversation about that. I want to hear this which one is this one? This is Freestyle.
Speaker 3:Yeah, play that bigger picture one. The bigger picture one is a good one.
Speaker 4:Shout out to my neighbor this is the Freestyle, the Freestyle.
Speaker 3:All his songs are great man, before the game I got a whole playlist of just Lil Baby.
Speaker 2:I got a whole Rod Wave playlist.
Speaker 3:Rod Wave just makes me sad. That's definitely sad.
Speaker 1:You a hater. That's like listening to the OJs before the game so sad.
Speaker 2:He's going to fall asleep. He's just following what everyone says.
Speaker 3:That's what the internet thinks.
Speaker 2:I've stood by that. That's what the internet thinks.
Speaker 1:Who is this? Who is this?
Speaker 4:When I was growing up, I was taught in American history. I think, this is the music. It's a little baby, but it's live Bigger picture.
Speaker 3:Bigger picture yeah, this came out during COVID, didn't it COVID song? Yeah, it's a COVID song.
Speaker 1:This is a good song right here.
Speaker 4:This was a good song. Everyone likes a little baby, though this was a good song.
Speaker 3:This was a good song, and of course, I believed it. Everyone likes Lil Baby, though.
Speaker 4:Not everyone likes Robby.
Speaker 2:Come on, Lil Jack.
Speaker 1:No one can rock that. Yeah, that's dope, that's dope. So now I heard y'all say some of these folks were the greatest ever. Is that what I heard you say?
Speaker 2:He said Lil Baby, the greatest ever. But I wave, not the best yet, so you stand on that, I stand on that?
Speaker 1:How do you stand on that when Tupac Secure was alive at some point?
Speaker 3:I mean I don't listen to him, so I'm not going to sit here and act like I listen to him him.
Speaker 1:But do me a favor, please. You get a chance. Just listen to some of tupac, all right, because I mean, to be honest, some of the stuff that little baby raps about is very similar to what tupac is, right. I mean he, you know, he got some stuff that you know, just club music, but a lot of it is politically motivating. So, yeah, you would like that if you like little baby. So who else y'all listening to?
Speaker 2:I listen, uh, I just listen to that new Drake album. It's mid Like I'm not going to lie, it was some of the I wasn't a fan of that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it was not that good Drake you sold, Drake you sold.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I listened to the song with J Cole.
Speaker 2:Hey, that was hard, that was hard. That was horrible, that was kind of off topic. Yeah, she was irrelevant in the album, not going to lie.
Speaker 1:You guys read any good books lately. You guys read at all.
Speaker 2:I'm actually reading a book called Relentless. It's actually a pretty good book. It's just talking about NBA players and their personalities that a lot of people didn't know about.
Speaker 3:Yeah, my dad gave me this book. It's called the Champion's Mindset. It's just about being. It's not really about anything sports-related, like any certain sports. It's about the mindset of how everything's not going to go your way and how just having to push through and having every day be different. There's a new battle every single day, but you've got to push through and having every day be different. There's a new battle every single day, but you've got to push through and understand the end goal and enjoy the work ethic, enjoy the stuff you have to go through to get to it.
Speaker 1:So you guys know who Allen Iverson is right? Yeah, Talk to me about. What do you think about Allen?
Speaker 2:He's a great player, for sure. I like the way he plays for sure. He played different. He was very aggressive, like yeah, he was him, I'm not going to lie, he was him, but I feel like he had a character. He just had a character that he had an image that didn't match the NBA, I guess, and he just didn't take no for an answer. He was just very relentless.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think he was a really good player. I think he had some unique thoughts about certain things. I know he didn't lift weights and stuff like that, so people automatically painted a picture that necessarily wasn't correct, but it was just kind of the energy he put off and they automatically assumed that he was this or that. But I think he was a great player. He's definitely one of the greatest ever and he's a good point guard.
Speaker 2:He handled that ball really good. He can handle the ball. He can handle the ball really well. Him or Kyrie got the best. Who got the best right there, kyrie? Kyrie yeah, I was going to say Kyrie liked that Big girl watching Kyrie. We got to go with Kyrie. But don't get me wrong AI is close second. He's close second.
Speaker 1:He is one of his. I'm going to tell you all a book to read when you get a chance John Thompson. He was his coach at Georgetown and he wrote a book called I Came as a Shadow and it talks about his experiences an autobiography about his experiences coaching Georgetown for all those years. He talked about Islett Iverson, patrick Ewing he talked about, he was interested in.
Speaker 1:He was such a powerful person that the guy it was a guy named Rayful Edmonds who was a big drug dealer in DC who was hanging around his players and he had to go to him and to basically tell him look man, I can't have you around his players. And he had to go to him and to basically tell him look man, I can't have you around my players. He called him in for a meeting because he was buying them stuff, pizza, letting them ride cars, and then he also talked about how he orchestrated some of the biggest Nike deals ever because he worked with Nike. So that will be something good for you guys to check out. I got a copy of it if you want to check it out. I got it on audiobook as well. Anything you want to share with the listening audience before we go to the next segment.
Speaker 3:I'll glory to.
Speaker 2:God. Yeah, without God I'm not even going to be here right now. Honestly, I wouldn't be the person I am today without God. He really blessed me a crazy amount actually, and I just thank him for everything he does.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm the same way. I appreciate everything he's given me and never take any of it for granted. And I don't know if everyone believes in God, but if you don't, you should think about it. Just give it a chance, of course.
Speaker 1:Absolutely. And before I go, you guys are all highly recruited as student-athletes. Right, Talk to us a little bit about some of the places you're looking at.
Speaker 2:I'm not really looking anywhere specific right now, just because of how young I am. I'm a junior, of course. I got four scholarships, four offers I got Kent State, Miami, Ohio, Eastern Illinois, Omaha but I'm not really looking nowhere. No one's like oh yeah, I really want to go there. I'm just enjoying the process just because, like I said, I'm young. I'm always enjoying it while I can, but I just have fun. Just have fun with it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm the same way. I'm just trying to enjoy the process, not rush it at all, because I'm a senior and this is my last ride, so I've just been trying to chill and just focus on the season and the team and try to get as many wins as we can this year and just enjoy it. And then when that decision needs to be made, it'll be made.
Speaker 2:All right, just have fun with it. Travel, go a lot of places. It's fun. College campuses are fun.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was just telling them, yesterday I went to three college campuses in one day. I got left out at 10 in the morning. We went to Wabash, depaul, then we went to Indiana State at night, and so it is fun checking that process out. Hey, I appreciate you. I am honored to have you gentlemen on Grace the stage and come out here and talk to me. This has been a really, really intriguing conversation. To get to know you guys better, I feel like I have watched you grow up. Um, I appreciate all the memories that I've had with you all, watching you all the way back from playing in dirt road leagues and, um, watching you in middle school and high school. And so keep up the good work and know that the city's behind you and we will continue to keep supporting you. And if you ever need anything, this is out of the mouth of babes the podcast for our future leaders signing out- thank you.