Still telling you what I think you should be doing or what how you could be better or I thought well
let me just speak from the heart speak to my gut
and really not have anything prepared but just tell you what's worked for me and maybe some of
the stuff that's worked for me might work for you now currently presently as you guys have
your goals and ambitions but then further on down the line as you guys continue to live your life
this idea and this notion that you can be anything you want you can accomplish anything you want
right we hear that you've heard that from the time you were little boys you hear that now you're
already incredibly accomplished you guys know that the thing that has worked for me is to remember
the hard times so and I'm sure you guys all have your processes
and again I'm going to tell you what worked for me so before
a big movie comes out before back in the days when i was wrestling with wwe
a wrestlemania match anything big that would happen i would always
take a moment and i just remind myself all right i was evicted when i was 14.
we were kicked off the island we couldn't live in hawaii had no place to live uh i should have them
that when i moved to nashville i was arrested multiple times by the time i was 16 years old
i would remember that and it allows me then to be present in the moment and understand
the stuff i have around me right now this is the sh that i dreamed of when i was a kid
i am here i played for university of miami played great teams warren sapp ray lewis and my teammates
they were balling warren sapp was playing tight end that time i was starting defense with tackle
yeah they moved him over to d-line and he looked at me as like yo dude they'll take
because there goes my opportunity he went in switch the defensive attack and lift
the world on fire well what that did it questioned me to crush my dreams i had a
piss-poor senior year zero production no nfl no combine invite nothing finally went to the cfl
calgary stampeders making 250 a week canadian canadian i had to send that home
to my uh to my wife at that time i had no money so i remember that i got cut from canada uh my
dad in his pickup truck came down four o'clock in the morning picked me up at
in miami from tampa we lived in a little apartment in tampa he drove down in his little pickup truck
to to miami to get me when i was cut from the cfl and i thought well the i
i leave home like you guys left home i'm ready to tackle the world to get after it
achieve my dreams and goals crushed by 22 23 years old and i got to move back in with my mom and dad
i played on great teams though wait a second this is not supposed to be my future i'm supposed to
be in the nfl right now i'm supposed to be making a lot of coin and buying my parents
buying me taking care of my wife but it never happened so i pulled out my wallet i thought
well let me see how much money i had i opened it up i had a five a one and change well at least i
rounded up to seven bucks but i thought this [ __ ] i got seven bucks in my pocket do i go now
what do i do i can't go back to cfl the point comes where you hear that voice big run's over
you're done right so i heard that voice so as coach was saying and i hold on to that i'm telling
you i keep my back as if against his mother we laugh we joke we have a good time but my back is
still up against this [ __ ] do not forget it what this also helps me do and again it works for me
is at some point you got to be tired of not being number one.