Inspiring Story About Family [Mariano Rivera - Behind the Bima Clip]

What an honor, and a privilege it is to have with us. One of my childhood heroes, I've been a Yankee fan, my entire life. But Mariano Rivera, Mr. Rivera, Mo, Sandman. I'm not even sure what to call you, but it is an enormous honor to have you on not only for your baseball achievements, but I think more for who you are as a person for your lifetime achievements, for your human achievements, for your personal achievements. Thank you so much for being with us. Mariano Rivera: Rabbi. Thank you. Thank you for having me. I mean, it's a privilege and honor, for me to be with you guys, and um, I'm delighted to have this time with you guys. And again, thank you for that introduction, but you can call me anything. You can call me Mo, you can call me Mariano. you can call me Sandman, you can call me anything. R. Goldberg: Okay. Perfect. Okay. Well, how about Hall of Famer, unanimous. First unanimous ballot hall of Famer. How about we call you that? So Mariana, Mo, let me begin with this question. Third time, 13 time, all star, five time world series champion, major league leader in saves. Unanimous. First time unanimous. First ballot hall of Famer. You throw the cutter, a pitch that everyone knew was coming and nobody could hit. You've got it all. You're you're a philanthropist. You're generous, successful businessman. You married your childhood sweetheart, elementary school. You've got it all. And yet you're incredibly humble. You're a modest person. You don't take personal credit. Every interview I've seen with you. Every time you talk about it, you say it all comes from God. Where'd that come from? Who is the influence in your life that gave you that humility and that gave you that faith to be able to recognize that all the blessings and all the gifts that come from above Mariano Rivera: Well, R. Goldberg. Uh, my, my parents, uh, they have to, they were influenced sometimes, first of all, because I mean, coming from a small village in Panama uh, fishing village and, uh, we don't have much, all right, so, uh, whatever we have, we have to, uh, we have to protect. We have to save Let's say, whatever they put on the table, you will have to eat, you know, So understanding that. And when the Lord brought me from Panama to play baseball in the United States, I mean, I knew that it wasn't because my talent, it was just because He please, you know, he just decided to bless me, you know? And, uh, and the rest is history. I mean, therefore I can never take credit. For none of that stuff, because I mean, I wasn't looking for baseball. I wasn't looking to be a professional and He opens the door for me. And, uh, definitely even if He didn't open the door for me, just to have the opportunity, I always would glorify the, uh, the name of the Lord and just giving Him glory because it was Him but that's why I never, it don't matter what happened. What I do. I will never take credit for me because I didn't do nothing. R. Goldberg: It's an amazing, amazing faith that you have, and to be so accomplished, there are people who are not accomplished at all, and yet everything that they achieved, they take credit, they take responsibility, they look for honor, you have it all. And you always use every opportunity we would call it, in Judaism. we call it a Kiddush Hashem, an opportunity to sanctify God's name and to give credit, to, to bring other people close to God. You're a walking example. So sometimes it's easy to do that. You know, you throw the, uh, the strikeout in the ninth inning in the last game of the world series and your team jumps on the mound and huddles with you. And it's easy to point up and say, it's all you God, thank you for that. What happens when you blow the safe? What happens when you throw the pitch down the middle and the guy creams that over the fence or a blooper over your head and what happens when it's not a moment of glory? It's a moment of failure. How do you remember it all comes from him even in those moments. Mariano Rivera: Oh, those are, those are the moments. Those are the important moments for me, because I definitely understand that. And for me to be on top, I need to be in the bottom I have to understand what has, what it feels to be in the valley for me to understand what it is to feel on top. Therefore, when those moments happen there are teaching or just flat then vision. I always, always made sure that those moments is when I give god the glory the most, because I know that his friend did teach me something. I know that he want me to see something and I always wanted to see why was the whistle. So I always wanted to find the way on the, the fit. So I didn't, I didn't see myself as a looser or the Fitbit. I always saw those moments as a learning process, the law, Fred petitions, something. You know, and sometimes it was not teaching. It was just that they flop a witness. So understanding that I always, because it's easy, it's easy when everything goes, right. Anybody can give glory to God when everything goes right. But what happened when everything is wrong? Things aren't going your way. What happens? He is still being, God, you know what I'm saying? Step out from being God. So I know. And things are not going right for you. None of his still being God, he's still the same God. So therefore good or bad. We have to glorify the name of the Lord. And that's what R. Goldberg: unbelievable. And it'd be in constant conversation with him. Did you talk to God a lot on the mound? Mariano Rivera: Oh yes. Oh yeah. bang on the car from the house. I mean, it's this constant conversation, you know, it's amazing because you understand the guys. I mean, for me, it's just understanding the moment, knowing where I was and know where he put me, where he brought me. He brought me to New York. He didn't bring me to Boston or LA brought me to New York. All right, everything's fine. All right. They brought me to the few, your Yancy's not the maths. They brought me to the new, all that stuff. Yeah. Allow me to, he gave me the pitch. People met in the pinnacle of everything, you know, and at the end they put like a Sherry in top of the ice cream. That was Cooperstown with the hundred percent unanimous. I mean, coma who, who got what God does that. They have everything possible and make everything possible. So it's, it's I always said that you have to take the Google device because it comes, it goes, it comes along the way, you know, and. Good is always better. R. Goldberg: And you really, you really rolled with the punches. I want to, I want to get the other rabbis in here, but let me ask you, I know that in your career you began, you thought you were going to be a star. And then you didn't succeed as a starter and you emerged in the bullpen and became the greatest closer of all time and will be for all time. And you threw one pitch. You know, there was a, there was a Jewish majorly baseball player lives in Florida in Boca Raton in our community. I won't say his name played in the major leagues for several seasons. I met with him because he was going to play for the Israel team in the, um, international games. So he told me the one question I wanted to know is when you face Mariano, What did you think? And you already told me ma he said, all of us know exactly what pitch was coming. We knew it was coming and we knew we couldn't hit it. All we wanted is don't look stupid. That's what he said to me. All we thought was don't look stupid. Don't swing and miss and fall to the ground. Don't flail at the ball. You knew it was coming. It's still going. So take us through that in your career when it didn't work out to be a starter, and maybe you think maybe this isn't the path, maybe this isn't what I was chosen to do. And yet it was the best thing that ever happened to you. It was the greatest gift because maybe you wouldn't have been the best starter of all time, but you ended up discovering the one pitch and that one pitch makes you the grit. Closer of all time, Mariano Rivera: rabbi, I was happy to be in the big leagues. I mean, I was saying at times through the rule, the road or, uh, Starter or long reliever or perhaps a sediment or close it. I mean, I was just happy to be in the big list if they tell me, okay, you have to clean the basis. Well, I'll be happy to clean the basis, you know, because again, I remember where I was. I remember what I came from. I didn't have this opportunity now. The Lord has granted me that opportunity to do this. I will do a Latin, therefore, you know, I wasn't attached to the role of status or they put me in the, in the rotation fine. They took me out of the rotation. I, I accept that I did. I put me in the, uh, in the, uh, in the, uh, uh, settlement role. I said that I did it. I put him in the closes role, you know, that is where all that thing took the place, because God wanted to put me in that place. What I have to learn from the startup, from the rotation to the long reliever, the short reliever and to where God wanted to put in. Okay. And then when he pulled me there, here, It gave me the quarter. I didn't find it. I was thinking like, okay, I didn't, no, no, no, God himself gave me the court. Therefore, that's why you guys telling you, we know it's coming when we can hit it. You know what I mean? Come on. What one manual leader will tell you that I know some patients coming. I won't, I won't hit it. No one mean we're talking about, think about this. We're talking about the best ones. From the whole world, they come to the United States to play the best baseball there is in the world. So those guys are professional. If you going to tell him, okay, this question is coming, I guarantee you that they missed maybe one, but the second page and the third page, it will be over the fence and far over the fence. Well, they couldn't do it. And they knew. For 17 years. R. Moskowitz: I just want to throw in there that even at you played for the Boston red Sox, that would have been a blessing from God. Also, I just out there, um, I want to pivot though, too, uh, something that rabbi Goldberg mentioned, and that is Israel and many of your interviews, and I know you've taken trips there and you have been outspoken in your support of Israel, and I'm just curious for our listeners, have you ever received criticize. For taking a position on a topic that unfortunately, for some reason it could be very polarizing. And what gave you the fortitude? What gave you the courage to speak out in support Israel? Mariano Rivera: Well, rabbi fill it. Um, I'll tell you that. Yes, I have. I received a lot of criticism, but I don't care. I mean, that's, that's my faith. I can never turn my back on is what I love Israel. A matter of fact, my wife told me if we can move there tomorrow, she will be happy there. So therefore that's where I stand for Israel. That's what I believe about Israel. That's what I, I believe that God has given a voice that we should stand firm for what we believe. I mean, people, they believein other things. That's fine with me, I have no problem with that, but my belief and my religion, you have to respect. R. Moskowitz: So how do, how do you shut that out? How do you shut it out when you're facing criticism on social media and the news? Having to block that out and maintain your own convictions, because there are a lot of young people on college campuses that face the hatred and face the antisemitism, and it's hard for them. Mariano Rivera: What can, what message could you give to them to give them the strength to, well, my message that I can give to them is that they have to stay for him. They have to continue. It's not about violence. It's about what you believe if you believe on, on, on that. Well, just stay firm on that. Okay. It's nothing to go left or right. It's just what you doing. You believe on the sun, you believe in the moon. Well, that's what you believe. So to stay firm on you believe, but if a Utah, just, you were sitting in quarter system has just start. Okay. Now I'm afraid because this you're going to have tough times. You're going to have tough, uh, uh, places where they're going to criticize you. But that's your thing. That's your faith. And you're going to change because you receive criticism. I don't think it's a lot. Believe it. Therefore I stay from this. That's my that's. That's what I believe. That's my religion. And I will not live and die for that. R. Goldberg: It's powerful. How, how many times have you been to Israel? Mariano Rivera: Three times. I can't wait to go the fourth one. R. Goldberg: What's what's your favorite place that you visited? What was the experience in Israel? Mariano Rivera: Jerusalem, just going to Jerusalem, to me, seeing the, say the city of David, to me, it's like. Bring me all back through the old Testament. And then, you know, seeing the is to me is, is fascinating. Is this it's the life? Oh my God. R. Goldberg: It's an amazing, you watch the news here and you think that Israel is dangerous or it's terrible. There's a lot of hate and violence. And you walk through the streets of Israel. There's light, there's love, there's peace. There's people who just want peace and live in peace. And this holy spirituality, you feel it in the streets, right? Mariano Rivera: That's it. It's amazing to me is it's not a place like. That's great. Wow. That's good. No, no. R. Broide: First of all, you made some rabbis very, very happy today. I paid to tell you, when I talk about it, a lifelong three, there was some people watching that are really, really, really excited. So this is really special. Wait, when you started playing professional sports, I watched an interview and you said you didn't even know some of the greats of baseball. And they will tell you, a lot of the viewers are going to say, I don't really know a lot about baseball. I'm not really a sports guy, but I started watching you. And I started watching some of the, the baseball games you've been in. And I got so excited. I see Metallica and I see enter Sandman coming on and I'm like, wow. And then I started wondering what's with the interest. And then they say, well, you were able to put them on. I said, you actually have a lot in common with some of the rabbis because some of the rabbis there, but I can get a question. You know, we spoke in one of the interviews about how, when you were just the child and you were playing baseball with your friends, you had to find a branch that was hopefully spray enough, that would resemble a baseball bat. And you had to make a mid out of a piece of cardboard, or then you had to build a little ball clothing, right? You had to put it on. And it was so fun. You really enjoyed everyone that was playing was really having a great time and becoming incredibly famous and the most successful baseball player, breaking all shattering all the records. W what's next. In other words, if you believe you hit it with your professional career, was the professional career. Just an opportunity to explore different relationships that you have with God. Where did you get to it? Where do you want to go? Mariano Rivera: Thank you Josh for that question, because I mean, it's great. Another of the other questions are not, but this is powerful to me because I mean, yeah, baseball was the platform that the Lord gave me who glorify his name. Okay. Baseball was the vehicle to glorify his name because he wanted to put me in a different scenario, different platform. So. What we're doing now is I'm working a lot with the, uh, with the community, especially in new Rochelle, we're building a learning center. Why a learning center? Why is my, why I'm passionate for awareness then? Well, of course, I mean, we want to give those, uh, under served youth opportunity to, uh, have a chance to be different. We have to invest on this Johnston. Okay. We need to, if that is my future, where I need to invest in that future, I need to make sure that my future is going to be okay for them just for the next generation. Therefore, because the learning center we're going to, uh, help those two to have that type of issue, you know? And that's my challenge. That is my desire before the, besides the church, obviously the community foundation. Family, but, uh, this learning center that I'm, uh, the, we are about to, to, uh, build it's my safe number 6 53. Okay. I have 6 52 area, 6 53 is because this, this means a lot. This is changing lives. This is creating opportunities for those. This is real. This is. Okay. I was playing again and I don't say that it's real. I love it. I still love it. And I will die loving the game of baseball. Well, this is different than this is the game of life. Changing life, meaning meaningful. Uh, for this John said that don't have voices that don't have feed that don't have parents in a wheelie from other thumb, their feet, their hands. Because, I mean, I believe on them. I believe that they need another opportunity. I mean, someone gave me another opportunity. I took advantage of it, you know, and look where the low home, you know, that's all, I want to create opportunity for this Johnston. So the Lord can do a miracle in their life and they be from us suffer. Maybe we have a nest, a precedent on the United States in this justice. So we don't know. But one thing I know that I'm going to do everything within my power. Then praying to, I have no breath for the Lord to grant that opportunity and bless us with everything that we need to be successful with the justice. So that's what I was doing by the way, guys. I mean, I need you help with that. I I'm raising some funds to build a learning center. So you guys know people let me know. R. Goldberg: Absolutely listen, Mariano. That's why you're not just, you're not just a hall of fame pitcher. You're a hall of fame, human being from this life that you are. You know, we have this impression, so many other athletes, particularly the most successful among them. They live life where they're takers. They want to take more. I'm a celebrity. Give me, honor. I deserve I'm entitled. And you talk all about being of service, making a difference, changing the world, repairing the world, making it a better place, giving it to other people. Where did you get that from? Who inspired you? You mentioned your parents, obviously your mom modest child too, but a lot of people, they move on. They distanced themselves. They're almost embarrassed to still be connected instead of being embarrassed. You're going back and you're continuing to give back. Can you give us a message about being a life of service, of taking the talents and skills and the platform and the opportunity you have and using it to make the world a better please Mariano Rivera: I mean, it's not about taking isn't it of our receiving is greater blessing when you did the what, when it's different giving, when you give. That's what I'm talking about because when you give, when you heart, when your heart not expecting something in return, that's the greatest gift that you can give someone. And that's what I understood. I understood that the Lord has given me opportunity. That took me from my small, beautiful home village in Panama to put me in a place that I never even imagined. Okay. So now I have the opportunity again, to me, the mouth, the seat, the hand, or this, uh, less fortune boys and girls who want though, I don't care wherever I'm doing my He will continue doing that into the Lord. Take me away because that's what I believe. I mean, again, I didn't have a dime. I don't have a plan. When I was down in front of my playing baseball with those, uh, brunches, with those cardboard, with those baseball made out or uploading to where the law. And I keep saying the Lord, put me in this spot, put me in giving me the platform that I have. I can not, I can do nothing or say nothing but serve. R. Goldberg: That's beautiful. I want to ask you another baseball could go back to baseball for one moment. So yeah. You know, in life we get flustered because people throw life, throws us curve balls and life throws us cutters and life can get us flustered on the mound. You are very known for being very, even keeled, very steady. You didn't celebrate too much and you didn't react negatively and you didn't react at umpires or batters or base runners. You just even keeled. You just rolled with the punches. And one of the great quotes, one of the great Mariano Rivera quotes. Is when asked about the game, you said they hand me the ball, I throw the ball, I take a shower, that's your job. So how, you know, how do we, whatever job we're in, in life or whatever role we're in, in life with our family, with a pandemic that came our way with whatever life throws, our way that we don't expect, how do we keep that same steady that we don't fluctuate too much, that we don't celebrate. And we don't get too down, but we're able to just stay, stay steady all along and not allow anything to fall. Mariano Rivera: We have to understand who we are. We have to understand who we trust and the ability that he has given us to asset, whatever role we have. All right. So the important things about life and things sporting, anything that we do, we have to understand who we are, who yeah. What we want. Okay. And then who I trust because that's important for me, that's the way I always. I trust them. My Lord is giving me the ability to do this job. And I believe when I used the tools he has given me. So sometimes I'm going to fail. Yes. Well, many times I'm going to have be successful. Therefore I say that, I'd say the chances, you know what I mean? We have to understand the abilities that we have in life and what are. Uh, goals thing, our strength. So it's, my strength is doing this well. I'm going to stay in my strengths, my weaknesses, I will work, but my strength I'm going to master things. My is my strength I muster. Why should I worry about these? I don't control. I don't, that's the way I thought that's what I always did. Uh, thinking and working on that. I don't worry about things that I don't control. I worry about things that I control. Okay. And I will do my best, the strictly my best to make it work. All right. If it doesn't work well, I do my best. One thing I asked in my life, one thing I ask always is I was prepared mentally and physically for the moment. And when I wasn't doing it, did I did everything possible. So if those answer will be yes. It's not in my home. R. Goldberg: What was it like with your team? What was it like with your teammates? Obviously, you know, close with pet a Jeter. So we don't have to talk about them specifically, although we'd be happy to host them in our show too, but what was it like with all your teammates in the locker room, in the dugout, on the road, in the hotels here, you are a person of great faith, and I'm sure that also impacted who you are as a family man. And you're the role of God in your life and humanity in your life. That's not typical in sports, professional sports. I don't think. So did your teammates say like Mo enough with God Mo enough with whatever, how did you bring your religion, your faith? How did that impact the relationship with teammates? Maybe after a loss, everyone else is down in the plane home and you're saying, Hey everybody, this was God's will move on. And they say, you know, how did that, how did, how did that work bringing it to your teammates? Mariano Rivera: Right. I love that word question because I mean that, to me, my relationship with my teammates and my team was. It was amazing. I never stopped talking about the Lord. Never what I know. I know how to approach my teammates, how to talk about the Lord in moments, hard moments, tough moments, easy moments, moments. I was brought to our, because it's everything about me. It's just, it's all about the Lord. It's no one ounce of me that came not to talk about the book. All right. So for you called me and told me, okay, I'm Ariana. You need to go to school. I want you to speak, but you cannot talk about the Lord. I will tell you, listen, I'm sorry, but if you want me and your school, I will talk about the law. I can't, I can't. So therefore, uh, my team is new that my team is new. There are, there are, I love them. My team is new that I respect them. De Mizzou knew that I was there with them thousand percent. I was in the bottle with them thousand bucks. And even now, uh, in times when that would, these were hard, who they call to break? Well, the thing they call, they call me to pray. So in some point, knowing the heart and the mind that we have someone here connected with the book, no, that's something, that's something that is, that is important for me, that my team is not only is. The, uh, this for mangled me both spiritual and mingle me. They can, then they knew they can come with me at any time with anything. Then we will be there. I will never adjust them. I will support them. So my team has had that all in. So that's why they might demonstrate. They never said the old man Moe was this mobile was that never matter fact, they will still know what was right. R. Goldberg: It's such an important message actually for our listeners. You know, look, you know, I, as Jews, we worship the same God, and we have a lot of overlap, although very important differences as well, but our relationship with the Christian community and with the non-Jewish community, it's so critically important to make the world a better place and the message for our listeners that you could be a religious Jew with the mutual friend that we have, who helped set up this interview that I'm so grateful for is a great example. And there are many. Who wear a yamaka on their head who go to work and who can be practicing observant Jews who are religious and faithful and spiritual and not compromising the work they do. So here you talk about being a hall of fame, New York, Yankee baseball player, winning world champions, without having a whole backer compromise, who you are spiritually, all of us can go out and do it, and we don't have to be shy in the workplace. We shouldn't try to force that on anyone. But we have the opportunity to share with others. And as you just said, your teammates appreciated it. And I wonder since you left baseball, have some of those teammates called you and said you were right or I've gotten more religious or spiritual, or I need your help. I'm in trouble. I need you to pray with me. Mariano Rivera: Yeah. So I have, I have the, uh, uh, the opportunity to talk to Jason Young. He was, he was, uh, we always, I always talk to him about the note then, uh, here was making fun of things. I understood to aggravate it. Well at the same time, I did think at the same time that work was doing the work that see there was planted, was doing the work thing. Now he's serving the Lord and working for the Lord, you know, the sentence strawberry Doris rather amazing. No, I mean, you can not, we can never be shy of who we are and why we dropped in. Because we don't know what the north can do, situation. The hardest man, I killed it. Serial killer. It don't matter. You talk to him about the Lord, you know, God has the last word. God can use anyone to verify his name. So therefore I always, I always, uh, believe in, always understand that, uh, the Lord, the Lord Hamels here in this world too, for a purpose. So every time that we have opportunity to speak about it, We have to enforce it. Like you say, rabbi, I don't force it. What I will take my chances. R. Moskowitz: Well, can I ask you about one of the great rivalries in sports in that it's obviously the red Sox, Yankees rivalry, um, of what you were at the epicenter of. And sometimes I feel like fans take the rivalry a little bit more seriously than the players do, but, uh, what lessons can you share with our audience about how we can treat each other a little bit nicer than you may. Through the rivalry. We live in such a polarized world where you're either this or you're that you're Democrat, you're Republican, or yet Sox or Yankees or Mets or whatever the team is. And sometimes you box someone in a corner and, you know, to speak to a, someone in a more derogatory way, or you don't treat them with respect because they're the other, they're the other team or the other party as someone who was in the middle of that rivalry and some of the greatest years of that ride. What are some lessons that you learned that you picked up along the way about how we could all get along a little bit better, treat each other with a little bit more respect, see the entire person, not just one part of them and hopefully bridge some bridges between people on different sides of spectrum. Mariano Rivera: Well, rabbi, uh, the problem is that a yes, like you said, the fines, they get to a different level because even if there's, I mean, sometimes we go to dinner after the game or lunch after, uh, the next. So, I mean, we understand that it's a, it's a rivalry, but, uh, uh, it's a game also being, uh, we've used the best for each team. You know, me for the youngest and Debbie Ortiz for Boston wrestles. But at the end we respect, uh, the N we, uh, we, uh, we shared time. We speak, we, we just, we share. You know, that means that, uh, we together, you know, we, it it's okay. We're playing our game and we were doing the best for our team, but at the end, Hey, we want to silver it, you know, we want to enjoy, we want to enjoy life. We want to, okay, what's going on here? What's going on with you in Boston, going on. What's going on with, and the thing with yak is, you know what it is, what happened in, in Europe? What is, I mean, we, we share and that's, that's the thing that. Uh, besides, uh, at the game we are human beings. You know what I mean? I don't understand why we have to go to the level of hate because I'm a Yankee or you're a red sauce. You don't matter. Because again, in Boston, I have a lot of friends, a lot of great friends, even the fans there, they treat me like gold. No, they treat me great. I mean, yeah. During the heat of the battle in the game, they'd throw it. How I'm going to die in the, how are things and go on and rest the red thing, all that stuff, you know, but I understood it was part of the game, but I respect that they're respecting. Okay. So we get along once we understand that I have to respect you, you respect me, whatever else is we can deal with. All right. And that's the thing that sometimes the fans take it to a different. You know, alcohol is in going on all that stuff. And when alcohol take part of your emotion, well, you're done, you know, the rest easy. R. Moskowitz: So it's about developing a relationship with the person, even if they're different than you it's taking the time, getting to know them, learning to respect them in the process, that's it? Mariano Rivera: Right? Like, that's, it that's the most important than just developing a religion. You say that, right? It's you know, it don't matter if you love white or I love Ray. It don't matter, you know? The point is that I respect you. I don't wanna adjust you and you love, uh, I love the youngest. And do you love the rest as well? That's okay. You know, but we need to understand and respect that again. I have so many great friends and Muslim neighbors. R. Moskowitz: You have one more friend from Boston, Mariano Rivera: you're in the wrong thing. You do belong with us. I said, I, I understand, but no, I'm, I'm happy with the youngest this, okay. Okay. Well, we're going to beat you today. I'm going to beat you today. So it was a great relationship, a great friendship United still connected with someone. And, uh, and again, you have to respect them. You have to give, uh, glory to the self glory, um, owners, owners, and, and, and that's the simple, the way it is, you know, do respect. R. Goldberg: Well, I thank God that you ended up on the Yankees that's for sure. Um, you've been, you've been amazingly generous with your time and we don't want to take too much of it, but I want to ask you a question about being a family, man. I know that your family means the world to you and how committed and devoted you are to. And again, maybe it's an anomaly it's unusual for professional athlete or at least that's our impression to be married to so long to your childhood sweetheart, who, you know, forever and to build a beautiful family together, especially when you had a job and a career that took you on the road that took you away from the home. So what are the, some of the things that you learned about what does it mean to be a good father, a family. How family can come first, even while you're ambitious, even while you're chasing your career. And you're trying to be the best you can, of what you do to still make sure that your family is important. Mariano Rivera: Well, Robert, you have to have a team within the team. You have to have a team and the most important team is your home. Okay. Your wife and your kids. That's, that's a really team that you have to, well, that's a real thing that you have to, he goes, I mean, I think God for my wife, You say that red light? I mean, I, I was, I waited for so long. I mean, I was, I played baseball for 24 years, but in 24 years and my wife, most of the time have to be there along with the kids. So she literally raised the kids herself. So she did a tremendous job, uh, raising of this because I mean, playing baseball, trying to be with a family friend to fly the family, get to this state is that we will. It's not easy. It's not easy, you know, but she stayed firm. And, uh, if she was like pillar for me, you know, in my career, because something without her, obviously I have the Lord, but me, the Lord put me, put her on my path. So she can be that other half that will, uh, uh, uh, support me and be there for me because, I mean, I don't think that without my wife, uh, we would accomplish all these things because again, Critical. She was still her. She was a rock on, on, uh, on my team. And that allowed me to focus more on the game to be more in the game, because I know that I have someone that I can trust my, my home. So that's the one thing that we need to have as an athlete or, or a businessman that you know, that you come with someone on some great team home that when. When things, even when things go right, or things go wrong, you know, that they have your back thing is so important for her to have, especially your kids. For example, when, uh, when we lost, when, when I lost the game in 2001, the World Series game, uh, it was hard. It was difficult. Yes. I mean, I mean, I did everything within my power to win the game and it didn't happened. When I came home, I, I was, uh, going, uh, approaching my room and there was a trophy there from one of my kids. My older boy put a trophy there saying, "Dad, I got you." You know, and that that to me is more than anything, you know, every time that I, I had a bad day at the stadium, when I come home, it's, "Dad, we're with you." You know that changed everything. You know, that that motivates you to keep pushing forward to continue because you have a great team. Again, without that great team, I don't know if I would have accomplished what I accomplished. R. Goldberg: What another person in your life who was the, who was the batter that you like to face the least, which was the battery. Mariano Rivera: Amazing. That was so good. Uh, well it's again, you know, and so social Greg. That is hard. You don't desire you to get him out. You just wish they been good. Get through first ladies and that's it. You don't get in home. We had the first days and that's it, you know, get your single I'm happy with that. You know, a great person, great human being great player and Hagar Martin. The worst. I don't want us to get the most what's R. Moskowitz: one moment that stands out at a 17 years, New York Yankees. What's one moment that stands out as the crowning achievement. Mariano Rivera: One moment to stand up. You might think, okay. It's a moment against the red sauce. No, it wasn't the moment. You know what? The moment stand up. Me wearing the uniform. I will stop bro. And in thing, painful dynasty. Uh, oh, what in New York with the scent that when I was putting that uniform for me, it was amazing. So I always was, that was my mom being there. We're in the youngest unit or 19 system, there was no greater moment than in the field because. Maybe it was me that I did some. Alright, but wear the uniform. I didn't do anything. The Lord just blessed me to be and wear that uniform for 19 season guys. Man. I was the last guy on the clubhouse, getting dressed, putting that Jersey on button there and then button from the top, the bottom one bottom. That was like, I I'm good. I'm good. This is my mom. So it wasn't going to be field. It was just all the fields just wearing the uniform is right near Yankees contract, R. Goldberg: Mariana Rivera, most Sandman, Mr. V. Hall of fame, human being. We can't thank you enough for your time. It's such inspirational words and your support, you know, as we said, there are significant differences religiously, but on the other hand, we worship the same God and to bring people closer to him, to stand for his values. To support Israel, your support of the Jewish community. It means the world to us. We can't thank you enough for it. We're here to help you. And we wish you lots of luck and blessing in the, uh, the efforts that you're doing now, the learning center and all else that you're doing, we want to thank you for being with us. And we thank the God for, for God, for putting you in this world and putting you on the greatest dynasty, the greatest team in history of sports and for all the moments and all the joy that you brought us. And we thank you. If you ever find yourself in south Florida, We'd love to play around a golf with you. We'd love to host you. We'd love to see you in person. Mariano Rivera: Thank you so, so much. All right. Thank you guys for blessing. Okay. Thank you so much. R. Goldberg: All right. Thank you.