
Speaker, Author and Coach /Former College Athlete @coastalmbb / Founder and Entrepreneur for 15+ years / Make Your Mark 📕
Myrtle Beach, SC
Joined February 2013
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Content people are kind to others
Confident people build others up
Loving people are patient with others
Supported people are quick to help
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Self-critical people are judgmental
Fearful people are quick to anger
Selfish people are energy vampires
Egotistical people use others
Our inner world is reflected in how we treat others. Pay attention to behavior more than words.
Really enjoyed a conversation with @patrickbetdavid this weekend.
Thank you for the inspiring conversation my friend! ✊🏽
Colin Stevens retweeted
Congratulations to #CCU Teaching Associate Paul Feirstein for being named the 2026 Sun Belt Conference Faculty Member of the Year! 👏
𝗙𝗔𝗖𝗨𝗟𝗧𝗬 𝗠𝗘𝗠𝗕𝗘𝗥 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗬𝗘𝗔𝗥.
Paul Feirstein, Teaching Associate in the Wall College of Business at @CCUChanticleers, has been named the 2026 Sun Belt Conference Faculty Member of the Year. ☀️
"Student-athletes have taught me things I did not know I still needed to learn — about resilience, competing through exhaustion, and showing up when you have nothing left because the person next to you is counting on you.” @GoCCUsports
📰 » sunbelt.me/4hMSTYx
The only way
to make things
easier tomorrow
Is to take on
the difficult stuff
Today.
Consistently avoiding difficult things
makes life harder and worse off in the long run.
Absolutely love this perspective! Find your flow and your joy.
Steve Kerr says Roger Federer taught his Warriors team the secret to sustained success wasn’t outworking everyone, it was building a life around your craft you never want to escape from
“I’ll tell you a great story about Roger Federer. We were playing in China with the Warriors in 2017. Roger was in Shanghai for the Masters tournament, so we invited him to come speak to the team.”
“Draymond Green asked him, ‘How do you sustain success? How have you managed to win majors 20 years after you first won one?’ Everyone was expecting him to say, ‘I work harder than everybody,’ the will, all the clichés.”
“Roger Federer says, ‘I get up every morning and I make breakfast for my kids. Then I take them to school and drop them off. Then I go practice tennis for about two hours, and I’ve figured out a really good routine where I don’t destroy my body, but I can get all the work in I need.”
“‘Then I go have lunch with my wife. In the evening, we cook dinner together. The kids are all home from school. We ask them about school. There’s so much joy in the house. We put them to bed, and then I put my head on the pillow and go, “Man, that was just a great day.” And I’ve been doing that for 20 years.’”
“And it was like, yes. That’s it. That’s the formula. That’s what leads to sustained success. He loves tennis. He loves his family. He loves life. It’s not outworking everybody and banging your head against the wall, ‘I’m going to be better than everybody.’ It’s allowing your natural talent to shine through with a work ethic, with a great family life, with perspective, with peace, with mindfulness.”
“It’s perspective. It’s joy. It’s passion. It’s mindfulness. It’s an awareness that we are truly lucky. To get the most out of ourselves, it’s our daily rituals and experiences and love and joy.”
When it comes to people who constantly complain… which one are you? 👇🏽
1) Bandwagon - jump on the complain train until it runs out of gas.
Or
2) 🤢 - You silently throw up, and hope you can avoid that person as much as possible.
In 2008, shortly after my college basketball career, I started training my first high school athlete.
I found a great deal of fulfillment in teaching the game I loved, getting after it on the court, and helping players improve their confidence through hard work.
As more players started to come work with me, I realized I had a real opportunity to positively impact players and the community. So, in 2010, I founded Manzer Basketball Academy, named after the late Dave Manzer.
Dave was an important part of my playing journey, helping me get connected to Coastal Carolina University, where I walked on in 2002, earned a scholarship, and became team captain on a 20-win team my senior year.
When I was brainstorming the idea for the company, I knew I wanted Manzer Basketball Academy to help players reach their next level, similar to how Dave helped me. So I named it in his honor after he passed away in 2009.
Over the past 18 years, I have met so many great people, found myself in gyms I could only dream of as a kid, and learned so much about helping athletes improve and achieve their goals.
What's even more important to me is the support I've received from my family over the years. Laura has been a rockstar, cheering me on through the ups and not letting me stay down through the downs. She always allowed our kids to stay up late to give me hugs when I came home from a long night at the gym. Those memories will never leave me.
So many great people came to work for the company along the way, too. For those of you who helped me positively impact the Grand Strand through the game of basketball over the past 18 years, I am grateful.
And to the players I've had the pleasure of working with, I have a great deal of love for you. I hope the lessons we learned together on the court will translate into how you operate in life.
Work hard.
Fight for what you want.
Be good to people.
Not always easy, but beneficial for sport and all aspects of life.
As I move on to new adventures, I'll always hold an incredible appreciation for my time with Manzer Basketball Academy and the families and players we served.
❤️🏀✌🏽
Colin
Just because you carry the weight well doesn’t mean it’s not heavy.
You can’t expect others to know how heavy your “weight” is.
It could be business struggles, or relationship issues. Maybe your finances are ugly or your health has gone down hill.
No matter the “weight”, you’re stronger than you think you are. And there’s no shame in allowing others to help you carry what’s heavy with you.
Love to see the @spurs advance. Hell of a team that relies on each other!
Always a 🐺!
Colin Stevens retweeted
50% of the teams that made it to Omaha last year didn’t even make an NCAA Regional this year.
The grit, resiliency, and toughness of this team is special.
Your kids will be like you.
So if there are qualities you see in them that you don’t like, stop trying to “fix” your kids.
Do the real work, look in the mirror, and become the change you wish you’d see in them.
One of the greatest challenges in helping athletes (and parents) develop is this…
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We live in a world where most people would rather fabricate a truth that makes them feel good rather than accept the truth of what actually is.
Too many athletes (and parents) can’t handle honest feedback, so they won’t actually do the work to improve their deficiencies.












