joining me now is fox and friends
co-host brian kilmeade
who between writing all these historical
books actually does deal with sports
which was
i was hired as a sports guy i know it's
ironic we go back to those days all
right
it's tough to even ask this question i
could get slammed just for asking
questions but are athletes getting too
soft
um i don't think so and i thought it was
important too i did not know reggie
jackson weighed in the ultimate clutch
performer who never backed out he struck
out but not in the clutch moments he's
known as mr october for
a reason and if you look at her in
particular
i can't judge someone like this
personally because i've never been that
good at one thing as good as she
is at 24 years old be considered not
only the best in the world but the best
ever yeah and not only saying i'm going
to win in the 20 in favor to win
now winning four years from now and no
indication leading up to this
and some have said and i looked at this
quote um
she is i encourage everyone to read the
new york post every day but especially
today because one of her teammates
andrea orris wrote this an explanation
of what she's been through when people
question her toughness
she won the world's all-around while
passing a kidney stone a few years ago
she's also dealt with a lifelong of
sexual abuse lunatic larry nasser
who's serving nine lifetimes in prison
and it ca
she indicates by this posting that was
endorsed by simone biles that this is
coming up again
and i just tell everyone hold your fire
and don't judge her
like michael jordan or uh or muhammad
ali
even though she belongs in that echelon
in her sport because what she's going
through we can't understand
uh here's the quote she's okay she's
dealing with things internally
which is this is what her quote is she's
okay
i'm dealing with things internally which
will get fixed i hope in the next couple
of days which leads me to
this the story is not done because next
week is the all around
and she has a chance to compete again so
she said go forget the team
we could still get this week next week
oh that's great
you know you we were both looking at her
what she was saying in lauren's uh lead
up to this
she was so composed she seems to have
everything together
you can never tell as we found out
because
she wasn't the only gymnast who was
abused there were a lot of gymnasts that
were abused by these
horrible coaches and also there's this
other thing called
you have anxiety and i remember terry
bradshaw were doing this super bowl
and he's a broadcaster this guy's won
four super bowls as a quarterback
and out of nowhere after calling super
bowls he had anxiety where he couldn't
leave his
hotel room and howie long had to go and
get terry bradshaw
arguably the top 10 quarterback ever
performing under pressure
for 30 years you don't know if that
could hit anyone and i don't think when
you have
anxiety it's weakness right i just don't
what i'm hoping is
if there's a mentor a confidant or a
sports psychologist can talk to her
to maybe save this moment but i don't
see but the best
coaches and and we shouldn't just focus
on the bad ones because there's some
really good coaches
do have a way of of teaching athletes to
channel their emotions they focus on
emotions
maybe the problem is in coaching here uh
true
i i think it's personal but when you
perform in an individual sport the
highest level with the biggest crowds
and the biggest audience and prove it in
rio and proven in the world championship
and now you're asked to deal with no
crowds
in japan the expectation's high granted
she made her
her routine so difficult the judges
don't know how to
judge it and i was also told by a
gymnast too
that what she did was amazing she lost
herself
in the air and forgot what she was doing
was able to go from a two and a half to
a one and a half
and land on her feet they say even
that's amazing how could you even
wrap your head around who am i to judge
so i can't
i can analyze and discuss but i will
never
judge someone with this type of talent
these type of accomplishments who went
through the drama she went through but
man
this is a global story you know for a
tough conservative you got a lot of
sensitivity
i am very sensitive guy i well
next time you're here maybe i'll try to
get uh get that side of me out yeah i
think it'll round me out
it'll keep me off media for a day brian
killed me great to see you my friend