start strong finish strong wolf is
always scratching man that's roll up to
3:45 a.m. cardio by 4:45 a.m. hitting
the iron by 6:15 a.m. in my pickup truck
by 7:15 am heading to work ready to get
after ready to shoot there's no
substitute for hard work I'm going to
make something out of myself and it's
gonna be so good it's bad
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instead of 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 from 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 work
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 in 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 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 we work
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
a lot of stabbed him then when I moved
to Nashville as 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
wholly the stuff I have around me right
now this is this that I dreamed of when
I was a kid I am here I played for
University of Miami played great teams
Warren Sapp where Louis they were my
teammates they were ballin
Warren Sapp was playing tight in that
time I was starting defensive tackle
yeah they moved him over to D line and
he looked at me he's like yo do I'm
gonna take your spot and I said you
ain't taking what's mine he's I'm gonna
take your spot no yeah we battled and he
took my spot they could imagine I left
with me because there goes my
opportunity he went in switch to
defensive tackle lit the world on fire
but what that did it questioned me too
crushed 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 poem to my to my wife at that time
had no money so I remember that I got
cut from Canada my dad in his pickup
truck came down four o'clock in the
morning pick me up at in whoo 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 wolf that 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 and I got 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 behind 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 have I opened it up I had a
5 a 1 and change and well at least I
rounded up to 7 bucks but I thought God
ain't this a [ __ ] I got seven bucks in
my pocket
we're though do I go now what I do I
can't go back to CFL the point comes
where you hear that voice big runs over
like yeah you're done right so I heard
that voice so as coach was saying man I
hold on to that telling you I keep my
back up against his mother we laugh we
joke we have a good time but my back is
still up against his mother right do not
forget it what this also helps me do and
again it works for me is at some point
you've got to be
and tired of not being number one you
have to be and you got to 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 something
you're always gonna have haters and
haters like we'll be a man how many
movies you're gonna make her how much
did are you gonna do like you do a lot
of say yes cuz my ambition of course why
not I could do it yeah I love what I do
and not only that but in what world do
we not work every day my back is up
against this thing you know and I and I
and I started to play angry by the way
and I still I still play angry my last
match Brock lesner transition and I
realized if I had to be great at
something I wanted to be great in this
world of Hollywood and moviemaking and
producing and entertainment I had to
commit and like you guys have to commit
obviously you commit to something commit
to the goal so I quietly retired two
years later I thought what did I do in
my career because my movies were not
doing well I was written off it was like
it's around 2006 2007 I was like I left
I pulled the Jim Brown I left when I was
on top like number one in the wrestling
business and I left it was a ballsy
gutsy some call it stupid move but I had
to commit and I had to follow was in my
god 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 Duff it allows me to go
into these big moments with a different
perspective what it also does for me and
again this just this is what works for
me like my back is up against this
mother
every day it's against that's football
but it's up against this mother because
it's what I believe in and when my back
is against this mother then there's
nowhere to go but that way
that's it doesn't mean you don't smile
there's me no laughing joke
right you're happy I'm happy I'm a happy
guy but when it comes to business and
when it comes to executing it's up
against this and I got to go that way
and I'll give up who is in front of me
they're not gonna stop me 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 what 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 4 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 mother won't my work
I'll start with this two hands putting
it'll work my last match in WWE I'll
share this with you guys - is that again
cuz there's a little bit of takeaway
here from all this is I wrestled John
Cena and I went in and I think it's 2013
I went in WWE Champion and we went in
MetLife Stadium we we had a
record-breaking attendance which was
amazing that night we accomplished our
goal
so I wrestle with John Cena we had 45
minutes planned for the match it's
nonstop and goes right so your
conditioning is tested and at that time
I wasn't full-time in WWE I was just
doing these spot matches where I would I
was still shooting GI Joe I think her
pain and gain at that time or no it was
um it was fast and furious 6 in London
had to travel in the ring get on my ring
work in travel back to shoot fast and
furious then back WWE Raw doing those
shows the big build-up to WrestleMania
against John we get to MetLife Stadium
it's a big night this is it's game night
right it's it's championship night for
me 45 minute matches planned out there's
no cut there's no all right well let's
pick back up tomorrow
you know it's go time it's just like you
guys in a game at the 15 minute mark
bang
I feel some pop on my boom laying there
and both of us are out I said off
something's going on and I stick my head
that's eighty five thousand people right
and we're just laid out like this I kind
of rolled over I stick my hand down in
my trunk just to see I want to make sure
that there was no bone sticking out so
if there's no bone sticking out what
something just happened referee comes
over and he's like rocky alright yeah
yeah yeah they come alright I said I get
up I go to step and I can't stop I can't
do this I have to use my leg like
momentum
I got do that so now in that moment and
you guys are gonna have these moments
you probably already had them already
where you're in the game and you're in
the thick of things and you got to make
a decision what I got to do I'm gonna
stay in the game committed to the team I
committed to my team the entire roster
right so I could tell the wrestlers are
you okay and I have one moment in this
moment it was a defining moment I could
either tell him no I'm done he gives the
signal matches over or let's keep going
we have this decision I said no let's
keep going I say how much time is up
he's like thirty two minutes okay rest
of the whole match couldn't move doing
everything like this I'm getting scared
because I'm thinking man well what
happens if I if I if I pinch something
or something like you know I don't know
your mind starts [ __ ] with you in the
moment there's 85,000 people your
Adrenaline's rushing thinking man what
happens we're going to lose my leg or
something like this if I've just done
something to my artery final move of the
match is his big finishing move and I
remember I'm getting up and I'm turning
like this because I have to fall into
him he's gonna hit me with his big
finisher I remember turning into John
and he says and I remember thinking
myself god please don't let this be too
bad just take care of me
take care of me bang I feel boom
I don't know what does happen now lucky
leave matches like he pins me when she
comes in the back I get to the back I
can't move now getting a little nervous
get on the jet rushed home to my doctors
down in Florida and in an MRI find out
that I have completely torn my adductor
the top of my my a doctor and my top of
my quad off my pelvis what I was proud
of was to walk out on my own but not
only that but in this moment where the
odds are against you people are watching
teams depending on you you either say
I'm done or this whatever the is going
on it's temporary and it made me up at
some point down the road but I'm not
gonna let this opportunity go by without
giving it my all
as you guys know there's nothing you
can't accomplish you're gonna go on
you're gonna become world champions the
key for me what I think one of the keys
is remember where you came from keep
that in the front of your mind and when
it goes bad and it goes sideways a lot
of does you're getting booed out of the
building or coming through this injury
or people are you writing you off are
you guys you know any of that you got it
you got to keep it in here the and it
really has to it should drive you it
should works for me it should drive you
you get all the talent in the world it's
all here
really the two things I want to say are
got to be the hardest workers in the
room and don't the opportunity
you
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