-Our first guest is one of the co-hosts
of "Good Morning America".
He also has a new clothing line called MSX by Michael Strahan.
Here he is, the one and only Michael Strahan.
♪ Michael Strahan ♪
♪ He's one of a kind ♪
♪ Sharp as a razor, he's got his own clothing line ♪
♪ Michael Strahan gonna make you laugh ♪
♪ When we talk to him about the NFL draft ♪
-Unbelievable.
-It is great. It is great to see you.
-Always, always, you are the best.
Thank you. You just crushed me yet again at golf.
-We had fun. -[ Laughs ]
-We had a lot of fun.
I really thought I was going to lose.
-I was right. -Because you're good.
-No, I was not good at all.
That was terrible. That was awful.
I didn't get one in at all. It was terrible.
-We could we could edit it.
[ Laughter ]
-Buddy, I want to talk to you about a bunch of things,
but first, the NFL draft is coming up April 29th,
and what what goes through -- since you've done this --
what goes through your head when you're knowing
that you're going to get drafted to a team.
-I hope.
Like, you hope you get drafted.
-Like, unless you're Trevor Lawrence,
you don't really know where you're going to go.
You know you're going to go to Jacksonville,
but other than that,
you just hope you're going to get drafted.
You're praying you can, like, make enough money
so you don't have to live with your parents anymore.
And -- but then, when you get drafted,
it doesn't mean that you've made it,
and I think that's what a lot of young players get mixed up.
They think, "I got drafted, I made it"
-Right. -They go get the car,
the jewelry and everything else that comes with it.
No, that's just your opportunity to be in the NFL.
You know, you haven't made it.
That's when your work really starts,
because if you don't put it in the work,
you won't be there long.
And, you know, with football careers,
even when they are long like mine -- I retired at 36.
Yeah. You got a long life to live afterwards, hopefully,
so got to take care of your money.
Save your money, kids. Save your money.
-[ Laughs ] Exactly, yeah.
-And put in all the work, and you get out of it
what you put into it.
-Yeah. -Plain and simple.
-What do you remember about the first day
going into the locker room for the Giants,
or coming to New York -- what do you remember?
-I was scared as hell.
I was scared. -Really?
-I'm in this locker room. I'm not, like, a big guy,
but I'm watching these grown men.
-Yes, you are. -I'm not a big guy.
Have you seen some of these guys?
6'7", 6'8", Solid muscle.
330, 40, 50 pounds.
And then the guys who played my position, one of these guys,
he was so -- he had muscles coming out of everywhere, neck,
ears, everything.
-Ear muscles? -Yeah, ear muscles.
And he walks in the -- he walks in the locker room.
It's the first time I'd ever been there with the vets,
and he was a vet. He walks in and I just remember
looking at him thinking, "He plays my position.
If I have to look like him to play,
I might as well go home. I'm never going to look like that.
-Really? -Ah, it was intimidating.
So I remember being scared.
I remember Lawrence Taylor walking into the locker room...
-Yeah! LT, man.
-...And it was like he didn't even walk, he glided in
like he was on a conveyor belt.
-[ Laughs ]
-Yeah, he floated in. -He was so like...
He was such a god to me in football.
So, yeah, it was -- it was intimidating,
but the sooner you can get over and realize you're there
because you deserve to be there and that you belong,
then the better it'll be for you.
But it's intimidating at first.
-And did you feel comfortable in New York City?
-No.
No. The first time I came here,
I stayed in the Marriott Marquis,
right in Times Square. -Yeah.
-I didn't leave my room until somebody came and got me.
Because I'm not that big, Jimmy.
-Yes, you are! You are that big!
-I'm going to be in New York City
and I'm going to be walking looking at, like, don't look up.
I'm walking, looking at buildings like that,
because I don't want to look up. I don't want to look like
a tourist! That's all the things I heard
when I came in from Texas.
Like, "Don't look up. They're going to rob you.
They're going to mug you." -[ Laughs ]
-I know, yeah. -So, I'm like waiting
in the hotel. You come get me, then I'll leave
because I got somebody with me to help me if I needed help.
And it was intimidating. I hear somebody's laughing.
-Yeah, that's --
-I'm being honest. I was scared to -- It was scary.
-But I think you're good at doing things
that are a little challenging.
I think that you like a good challenge.
-Yes. -Even like going into
"Good Morning America".
Like, you don't know how to host a morning show,
but yet you hit it out of the park.
You're fantastic at it.
-Thank you. Thank you. You know what?
That was -- that was more intimidating
than being in a locker room
with the big old dudes walking in there, man.
-Really? -Yeah, I was --
That is the hardest, most challenging job
I've ever had. -Really?
-Football is challenging mentally and physically,
but this -- just the overall pressure of it,
you feel it a lot more than I ever felt on a football field.
And so it's really hard to explain,
but it challenged me in different ways I never expected,
because it's not something that I can say I aspired to do.
-Yeah. -But now, I absolutely love it.
I'm so comfortable there. I love the news.
I love politics.
I love, you know, everything that's involved with it.
I just wish the news could be a little bit happier at times.
-Yeah -It's kind of hard.
It's like 7 AM going, "Well, you know, today..."
It's like -- it wears on your mind some of these things,
but, I -- I wouldn't change it for the world.
My career and where it's taken has exceeded anything
I ever imagined, so.
-I mean your clothing line has taken off as well.
Last time we were on, we talked about -- you were giving suits,
by the way, to veterans and helping them get jobs
when they come out of the service,
and I thought that was an awesome thing you did.
-Thank you. -And...
But this is your --
Is it -- What do you call, is it...?
-"Work leisure," we call it. -Work leisure.
-You know, there's athleisure, and then theres tailored,
which is like suits and ties,
but now everybody's like leisure,
but they're working, because they're working from home.
-That's right. -So what we have,
we have fitted Polo's, we have, you know, comfortable joggers,
and also we have jeans and everything else.
Throw a jacket over it, you can sit in front of
your Zoom, you can do your thing.
Take it off, you could still hit the streets,
and not have to change 20 outfits to kind of work now
and also be at home and be comfortable.
-Look at your model poses. -Yeah, yeah, yeah.
-Now, are any of these, like, real situations?
-No. [ Laughter ]
All that's in the studio. It is weird,
because it's like -- I felt like "Talladega Nights".
What do I do with my hands? You know, you just kind of --
So, you notice, I almost have something
in my hands every time.
-Yeah. -And then when you do the suit,
it's, weird because I saw that that meme of The Rock
and he's always fixing his cuffs.
-Yeah. -Like, can The Rock ever fix
his cuffs? -[ Laughs ]
-So now every time I've got a suit,
I'm like, "I can't do the cuff thing --
that's The Rock's stuff. That's The Rock's thing.
But, yeah, it's uncomfortable -- there's, like, a lot of people
standing around you, like, kind of like "What do I do?"
-I know. -I got to look cool.
-But I think you always had a little something,
because we got a photo of young Michael Strahan.
-Oh boy. -Look at this little stud.
That's what I'm talking about right there.
That's my man right there.
Walk me -- walk me through this, dude.
-How cool is he? -I'm -- I'm the youngest of 6,
and I was too young to go to school,
but my brothers and sisters had school pictures,
and I cried and told my mom
"I want to go to school, and I want school pictures."
So she took me to Sears or something,
where they used to do the school pictures --
-Yes, of course. -Where you can get the pictures.
And that was considered my school picture,
even though I wasn't in school, and you could tell I was happy.
-That's a good mom. -Because the gap is just
in awful display.
-You're going to have to add this to the MSX line.
Leisure suits. -The lei--
That's polyester. Don't get near a flame, you going up.
-This is my man, Michael Strahan.
Everybody give it up -- in studio.
Check out his line of MSX clothing available now.