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-Can you think of something that you've had to let go
or sacrifice in your life?
-Gosh.
-I think most people have numerous sacrifices
just to succeed and go forward.
-Jobs, friends, friendships, living situations.
Yeah, a million things.
-Old toys that I do not use, I give it to the poor kids.
I'm very sad, but it's the right thing to do.
-Pursuing my basketball career as serious as I did.
Knowing that I just kept getting injured
and it wasn't gonna work.
-I got cancer when I was a young adult,
and I had to move back home,
and I had to press pause on a career
and on a life and on friends.
I think, in reflection,
that year was a very meaningful year in my life.
-I had to work in a job
that I wasn't necessarily thrilled about,
but I knew that that was gonna get me to where I wanted to be.
-Squeezing pennies, making budgets, and it's, you know,
it's actually making me a better person and proving to me
that money isn't everything.
-I think the most successful people that I know,
even when they're achieving goals,
they're always looking to the next thing.
-I had to give up my own company that I started
and that I was building,
and I know if I had stayed on my own
then I wouldn't have been able to accomplish the amazing things
that all of our -- that our team has accomplished.
-I think any time you're in a relationship,
you're making a series of concessions.
-When I had my second child, I took an early retirement.
I really liked my job,
but I felt like my family was more important.
-I think marriage is a sacrifice.
-I had to become selfless.
-The biggest things that I've had to let go of
to move forward were, you know, people.
-Giving up the person who I thought
I was gonna spend the rest of my life with.
-Coming to terms with the loss of a best friend,
a grandparent, a loved one.
-I did lose my dad to cancer...
when I was 25, and -- oh, God.
-Being away and starting a life away from my family is,
like, that just doesn't make any sense in my mind sometimes.
-Oh, I think about that a lot as my parents get older,
that I'm far away
and maybe one day I may have to not be as selfish
and might have to move home and help out.
-Later on, you realize, well, you know what?
What were you really sacrificing?
Like, you weren't. Like, you're still here.
You still have the rest of your life ahead of you.
-My dad always taught me that always to put other people
before yourself and always to remove your ego
from certain situations.
-It's not easy to let go of it,
but you start one day at a time
and it can help you actually achieve your own personal goals
so much faster.