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I'm here to win:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLESzFg-qoo
Coach explains how he plans on winning the game in his third season on Survivor
"I am here to win. I tell you, the first time I played, I was stupid. Second time I played, I was too soft, spread myself too thin. I was trying to play both sides of the fence. It's been shown in Survivor that you make alliances early, you make 'em hard, you make 'em fast, and you try to stay true to alliances. I don't think I've ever really played this game. I had two agendas. My first agenda in Tocantins, season 18, my agenda was to be the biggest, baddest character the game had seen to date. I would incorporate my own philosophy, I would try to change the game, I would take the strongest to the end. I had this whole approach to that first game, but it wasn't necessarily to win. The second time I could only think about finding redemption in the eyes of the public. I didn't approach it to win. This third time to play on Redemption Island is to have that great adventure, but it's also to win. I've reflected, and I've thought about who Coach is on the inside, and how I can continue to be a better person, because as a coach, coaching other people, that's what I want to try to do. I want to try to motivate. I want to inspire people. The hardest thing for me, and I think the dragon that lurks around the game for Coach, is actually the dragon from within. It's not the dragons out there I'm trying to eliminate. It's trying to control and harness my sometimes sense of self-righteousness and judgment on the other contestants. As a coach and an adventures, I say to myself, this is the greatest adventure you can go through, so therefore, if I can get the other contestants to see how to empower themselves, how they can forge their character in real life, long after the game of Survivor, then I've done my job. That's how I've approached it. When two girls sit on the beach and do nothing, it drives me crazy. When this guy sits there and double deals with everybody, it drives me crazy. When people don't want to play with honor and integrity, it drives me crazy. I've got to realize everyone out here is on their own journey. I can't fit them into my journey."
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"I need to be able to relate to them in their own individual journeys. That'es what you haven't seen from Coach in the pat and that's what you're going to see from Coach in the future."
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"I have a very sensitive side that sometimes comes out, and the philosophical side, but in real life, if I don't respect or relate to somebody, I just walk away. I don't need to deal with somebody that in my judgmental mind, I find beneath me. Part of my research for this game is to know some of my tribemates are going to be younger. Some of my tribemates are not going to have the experiences of myself or some of the other people that are out there. That's OK. I've gotta meet them where they're at. Am I reading all the young girls' magazines? Yes. Am I studying pop culture? Absolutely. Can I tell you which shoes out there have red soles and which ones are gonna match the best Jimmy Choo with the Chanel bag? Absolutely, man. I'm gonna bring the swag in this game. I'm gonna relate to those younger girls I found a hard time relating to, because I've got to. It reminds me of a good quote I'm going to build my game around. Edmund Burke said, 'The arrogance of age needs to submit the wisdom of youth.' Meaning when we get old in our age and get stuck in our ways thinking we're always right, we've gotta open up our eyes, because the world is always changing, so we've gotta adapt in order to keep up and in order to succeed. That's my motto. That arrogance we get into, having those different experiences. I've played this game twice, I've learned a lot from it, I haven't been successful. This time, I want to open my eyes and really see what these young people have to offer. It may be different than what I think they should be offering, but that's OK."
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"Playing against Ozzy is both an honor and a little bit of a threat, but most of all, a great challenge. He's a great competitor, I think his social game, he's a nice guy, so I think his social game in the beginning is going to be tough to beat. He'll ingrain himself in the tribe, then go and catch a bunch of fish and run up trees and cut down coconut. I think as it gets to the merge and the merge happens, he's going to be much more of a non-threat, so to speak, unless he wins immunities. I don't think he has proved he has that social game. I think there's a few players out there who have less of game than the Dragonslayer. Not many, but a few. Erik Reichenbach, Ozzy. There's a few, not many. Those are the guys I think after the merge it will be like taking candy from a baby."
