Very, very few people have the ability to genuinely and completely captivate a room. When that room is full of cynical, jaded, tired journalists with an almost universally pessimistic view of the world, that number dwindles even more.
Very, very few people have the ability to command genuine respect, let alone legitimate devotion, from a dressing room full of elite athletes, with their egos, alpha personalities and single-minded focus. They have an uncanny ability to sniff out insincerity, incompetence or insecurity and, in a results-based business, the tolerance for any level of bulls*** is low.
