One of the keys is remember where you came from keep that [ __ ] in the front of your mind and
when [ __ ] goes bad and it goes sideways a lot of [ __ ] does you're getting booed out of the
[ __ ] building or you're coming through this injury or people are you writing you off oh you
guys ain't gonna [ __ ] make it you know any of that [ __ ] you gotta you gotta keep it in here
and it really has to it should drive you this idea and this notion that you could 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
can win an nba championship mvp of the league you could become president you could become governor
you can have you could be in in in uh you could be in entertainment you could do
charles and you could do shack you do that you could do whatever you want to do
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 a lot of [ __ ] happened then when i moved to nashville i was arrested multiple times by the
time i was 16 years old i can't remember that if i were playing on this team uh which my you know
my skills are um what's that term all the shits so i'll never play but before i lace up before i get
on court before i play in these big games before i go to the staples center where history says those
are those are historic walls there at the staples center uh i would remember that and it allows me
then to be present in the moment and understand holy [ __ ] the stuff i have around me right now
this is the [ __ ] that i dreamed of when i was a kid i am here i played for university of miami
played great teams weren't sap ray lewis they were my teammates they were ballin warren sapp was
playing tight at that time i was starting defense with tackle yeah they moved him over to d-line and
he looked at me he's like yo dude i'm gonna take your spot i said you ain't taking my [ __ ] spine
we battled and he took my spot
i can imagine how that [ __ ] with me because there goes my opportunity he went in switching
defensive tackle lit the world on fire well what that did it crushed 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 i had
seven bucks in my pocket and i always tell that story so now my production company's seven bucks
advertising agencies seven bucks everything is seven bucks so always remember that what helps
me is to keep the hard times in the front of my mind because it allows me to go into these
big moments that i've worked my ass off and you guys have worked your ass off i feel like for me
it feels seamless because you prepared for so long but it's just like you guys prepping for a game
that's the fun part that's where it's like [ __ ] it's fun man people are paying their hard-earned
dollars to come see you they're cheering they're going bananas they're booing the [ __ ] out of
you or on the road it's that's fun that's what you live for i mean that's the juice
right there the prep is where the character is made and i just don't mean the character i play
i mean the [ __ ] the character in here so for me the prep is getting with the director getting
with the producers getting with the writers getting with the getting with so in essence
it's like getting with all your coaches and your different uh position coaches and and all the
meetings that you have to have right so that's the work you put in the key for me was
where does it start what's the anchor what's the anchor so i could have all these ambitions
and you guys have all these ambitions which is great it's important i'll play this role you'll
play that role i'll execute this thing and it'll come out this summer you guys
will execute this thing during the summer right when it's time to really put in a lot more work
but the key with me is just always finding what the anchor is and the [ __ ] anchor
is getting up at four o'clock in the morning every day before anybody else and grounding my
thought process is in the no one will outwork me no one i love and i respect you guys
[ __ ] will not work me all starts with this two hands putting it to work the anchor for me
has always been the work in terms of the weight room training so when i first started wrestling
i was six years old rolling on the mats with my dad my old man a lot of you guys won't know this
yeah rocky johnson my old man was rocky johnson was the first black wwf wwwf at that time first
black wwe tag team champions with tony atlas back in 1983. uh my uncles were wild samoans
i come from a long line of pro wrestlers um but before the wrestling part happened
i was just in the gym putting in the work at six years old rolling around on the mats and
finally when i could touch weights at 13 that's what i was doing but the weight part for me
and the gym part has has always been has to be the anchor look at the end of the day like again
that's it's the kind of stuff that i talked about at top is i have to hold on to
uh my dad in his pickup truck came down four o'clock in the morning pick me up at in miami
from tampa we lived in a little shitty apartment in tampa he drove down in his little pickup truck
to to miami to get me when i was cut from the cfl i was driving up i-75 i don't know if you
guys are from florida any of you guys if you know it's i-75 it's like especially down in
florida alligator alley i'll never forget it's four o'clock in the morning and i thought well
[ __ ] that 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 i'm now going to move back in with
my mom and dad i played on great teams oh 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 up my
wallet i thought well let me see how much money i have i opened it up i had a five a one and change
i'm not [ __ ] around and and i well at least i rounded up to seven bucks but i thought god
ain't this a [ __ ] i got seven bucks in my pocket where the [ __ ] do i go now what do
i do i can't go back to cfl because i or you know a 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 man i hold on to that [ __ ] i'm
telling you i keep my back is up against this [ __ ] we laugh we joke we have a good time
press is always fun to do sometimes you got to make it fun that's another thing you got to do
your best to make press fun if you can but my back is still up against this [ __ ] i 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 you have to be and you gotta [ __ ] play angry and i play angry now i'm
cool and calm with my approach and when i step out on my field which is a set or you know like
there's some and you're always gonna have haters and haters like well i see you man how many movies
you're going to make or how much [ __ ] are you going to do like you do a lot of [ __ ] i say yes
it's my ambition of course why not i could do it yeah i love what i do not only that but in
what world do we not work every day you guys in the off season you gotta work every [ __ ] day