- [Interviewer] What are you gonna do
if your daughter comes like, "Dad, I want a tattoo."
- First of all, I'm not going
to tell them I got my first tattoo that early,
and I'm going to tell them how bad they hurt.
So hopefully,
that'll scare them out of wanting to get tattoos.
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I got my first tattoo when I was in the 10th grade.
Obviously lifting weights, you know, kind of feeling myself,
a couple of the older guys got tattoos.
I'm like, man, I think it's time for me to get a tattoo.
It was this Jesus pic right here.
I might've paid him maybe 250, $300 or something like that.
He was tattooing everybody.
Like, literally everybody.
It's actually been a little refurbished
from the original picture.
After getting more and going to some better artists,
you know, you thinking back as a kid,
he's like, man, I should have waited.
And just seeing some of the other artwork
some of the other kids were getting around high school,
I'm like, yeah, no wonder he's tattooing everybody.
He should be giving these away for free.
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The bulk of my tattoos were done once I got drafted
and once I got into the league.
Maybe about my third year in the NFL,
this artist that I was working with, he's out of Atlanta,
I would fly him in town around March Madness.
I obviously got all the basketball games on.
He will be there for about four or five days
and he would just tattoo nonstop, all day.
Some of my teammates would come by.
Once I'm done with one, somebody else would go.
I would probably get about two or three different pieces
in one day.
That would be my tattoo parties,
and I did that for about four years.
Obviously right here, this one says Georgia Boy.
This is, like, my graffiti wall of everything that's near
and dear to me.
It has my mom name, my sister, my dad's name.
I have a map of Georgia.
It has the breast cancer ribbon.
The cancer ribbon symbolizes my mom's fight
with breast cancer.
She's a two-time breast cancer survivor,
all the while still being a mom
and making sure that she was able to be there
for me and my sisters.
I have these roses right here on my bicep
with both of my grandmother's names in it.
And this is just pretty much symbolizes heaven and hell.
This one right here on my wrist is something that me
and all of my best friends have,
all my boys that I grew up with.
Basically says brothers from another mother.
My favorite tattoo would have
to be the portrait of my daughters.
I just recently got that one about a year ago,
and it's actually right here.
On this side, I just have a picture of Rosa Parks.
And the rest of them, I have a Martin Luther King portrait,
Malcolm X, Jackie Robinson, and a Muhammad Ali,
some things that was close to me
and that was near and dear to my heart.
On my chest, on this side,
I have two angels holding a ribbon with both my uncle
and my granddad's name in it.
And on my back,
I have a quote that says believe in your dreams.
Then, I have two angels that are about this big
on the bottom.
And then, I have some football laces in the middle.
I have a lot of religious tattoos, crosses, angels.
Since I was a kid, grew up in a church, church choir.
It's tough to go to church now because we play on Sundays.
But you know, just try to stay in tune
with the word of God.
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- [Interviewer] How many tattoos
would you estimate you have total?
- It's hard to say
because a lot of mines are all meshing together.
You know, to pretty much form somewhat of a shirt.
I've lost count, at this point.
I'm actually in the process now
of getting another appointment, you know, once we're done
with the season.
I obviously want to finish my tour,
so I'll finish my hammies and quads after that.
And once I finish that up,
I don't think I'll have any more space.
I'll be done after that.
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- [Interviewer] What advice would you give someone
who is gonna get their first tattoo?
- I would say get something
that has some significant meaning to you,
something that's near and dear to your heart.
But, definitely make sure that artist has some quality work.
Don't go to one of these holes-in-the-walls
and you don't know what you're going
to end up with once he's done.
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