WEBVTT - Edgerrin James 0:00:00.000 --> 0:00:02.800 Everybody I always talk to say you cheat, it ain't cheap. 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:04.720 I'm smart, but they usually be the one to say 0:00:04.760 --> 0:00:10.879 you're cheap. Then the one all my life and grinding 0:00:10.920 --> 0:00:16.040 all my life, sacrifice hustle back price. One slice got 0:00:16.040 --> 0:00:18.480 the pro dice to swath all my life. I've been 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:21.520 grinding all my life, USh all my life and running 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:26.720 all my life sacrifice, hustle back price, one slice got 0:00:26.720 --> 0:00:29.480 the dice to swath all my life. I've been grinding 0:00:29.480 --> 0:00:34.000 in all my life. Hello, welcome to another additional club, 0:00:34.040 --> 0:00:36.360 Sha Shay. I am your whole. Shannon Sharp also the 0:00:36.400 --> 0:00:39.040 proprietor Club Sha Shay, and the guy that's stopping by 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:42.360 for drinks and conversation today is an NFL Hall of Famer. 0:00:42.400 --> 0:00:44.479 He's a four time Pro Bowl Offensive Rookie of the 0:00:44.560 --> 0:00:46.560 Year in nineteen ninety nine, led the league in rushing 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:50.040 two consecutive years nineteen ninety nine and two thousand, two thousand, 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:54.360 all decade Indianapolis Coats Hall of Famer, and he's the 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:57.600 coach all time leading rusher in the tenth yards and touchdowns. 0:00:57.920 --> 0:01:01.720 Mister doodd all the edge Edgwan j Man, I'm good. 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:04.720 You know I'm good. Always You're always good, always good. 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:07.400 I've never I've never not seen you with a smile 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:09.840 on your faith. Damn you that happy all the time? 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:12.120 Life would be really good. I mean when you overcome, 0:01:12.160 --> 0:01:15.399 when we overcome, maybe it's gotta be good. It's gotta 0:01:15.440 --> 0:01:18.160 be good. Yeah, thanks for stopping by the day. Let's 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:20.720 go back because I thought you had a very your 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:23.480 Hall of Fame speech. Congratulations on making that. Yeah, I appreciate. 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:27.240 I think you three fifty four six three three six, yeah, 0:01:27.440 --> 0:01:30.360 three three six. They've been over twenty five thousand men 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:35.080 that's played, coach managed in the NFL, seven billion people 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:37.640 in the world. Only three hundred and fifty four men 0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:39.959 can say they got a gold jacket. How does that 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:42.119 make it? Drin James Field? Oh, man, it make all 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:44.000 the work that you put in make it even work it. 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:46.000 I mean, that's what really stands out when you see 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:47.240 all the work you put in. You say, all the 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:49.320 people that's actually trying to play this game right, and 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:51.760 you realize you wanted a few that made it and 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:55.200 got that gold jacket, so it's like they really captured 0:01:55.240 --> 0:01:57.080 off and say, man, it was all worth it. Right 0:01:57.480 --> 0:01:59.840 when you started playing for did you always know you 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:01.920 wanted to play football, even as a kid growing up 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:04.120 in Florida. Yeah, football is like the thing to do 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:07.000 down south, So we're gonna play football. Like I really 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:09.200 wanted to be a basketball player, but I only had 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:13.079 strong right, I ain't have left food, but football. Football 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:15.160 was too easy for me. Like football was real easy. 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:18.520 It was It's always been easy. So I knew that 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:21.120 was like that was the thing to do. Yeah, that 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:23.880 was that. That was the ticket, that was the that 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:26.880 was the best shot at changing things. When did you 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:32.000 realize that I'm really good at this. No, I'm really good, 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:36.000 and I can change my families. Oh, I can change 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:38.800 my family's life forever. When I got to the University 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:40.320 of Mind. You know, when you're in high school, you're 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:43.000 playing against the people in your area, right, you know, 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:45.840 so you really don't have no measuring stick. Right. Then 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:47.720 when you get to college and you and you start 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:49.639 seeing all these guys, like a lot of these guys 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:52.560 they have like all these five stars that raided, right, 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:54.320 and then you go out and practice and you just 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:56.720 like dominating them, right, and you just say, man, this 0:02:56.760 --> 0:02:58.480 thing right here seemed like it's pretty easy. Then you 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:02.120 start having guys from your team going to the NFL, right, 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:03.880 And I'm like I just was out there with him 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:07.160 and a yeah. So now I'm like, yeah, I know, 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:09.000 I'm I know him gonna be on the next level 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:11.679 right now. I think it's after my freshman year. That's 0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:14.320 when I knew. And I just locked in and I 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:15.720 had a clock. I said, I'm gonna be out of 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:18.920 here my junior year. Right, you get to the NFL, 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:22.560 you get selected, what fifth fourth pick in the draft? 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:29.880 They do something. They moved Marshall to select eddri and Jane. 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:33.040 Did you understand, like Marshall could do it all. He 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:35.840 could catch, he could run, he could block. They moved 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:38.680 a guy that was Rookie of the year, had great numbers, 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:41.440 and it's like, we think this guy right here could 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:43.840 be just as good, if not better for me. I 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:46.760 really didn't understand what was going on. Man. I just 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:49.920 come in front of you trying to get to the NFL, right, 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:52.080 you know, And so for me, it wasn't It had 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:53.440 nothing to do with it. I didn't think about no 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:55.640 marsh I didn't think about nobody. I think about, man, look, 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:57.520 this is my opportunity right to make it to the 0:03:57.600 --> 0:03:59.760 NFL and once I get to the NFL, I'm gonna 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:05.360 make my mark. So I really didn't looking to all. Yeah. 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:07.320 I focused on me, and that's that's kind of how 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:09.240 I did my whole career. You know, I always focused 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:12.840 on myself and never got into comparing to nobody or 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:15.440 trying to compete with nobody, because it was always me 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:19.840 versus me every time you get there. Okay, so obviously 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:23.800 you're rookie, go through the camp. Now, y'all need to 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:27.080 make the money right, Definitely. Obviously the money was right 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:29.720 because Andrew James held out for the better part a 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:38.000 long long time. Yeah, I mean it's the money was right. Hey, 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:41.640 money was right. Comparing where we came from, well, I'm 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:44.800 coming from the money. The money was right. But you know, 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:47.720 you gotta do things that, like you gotta do things 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:50.000 in the proper order, and like when you get drafted 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:52.560 the fourth pick, you know you need to be compensated 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:55.200 right right where you're supposed to be compensated. That it's 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:58.520 like they could have like deep down inside, like the 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:01.000 money was right on the first offic with me, Like 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:03.680 I know where I'm coming from because like I'm like, man, 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:05.480 all I needed some money one time. I get some 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:08.039 money one time, I'm I'm a double trip of that. 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:10.520 Later I ain't worry about that. But it was like, 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:13.320 you know, for the game, for the betterment of the game, 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:15.680 running back position, you got to stand up sometimes and 0:05:15.920 --> 0:05:17.960 the guys coming from behind. Yeah, like you can't just 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:21.440 accept whatever. So I said, Man, I'm gonna even though 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:23.200 there's money, right, but I'm gonna do what we gotta 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:25.960 do to make sure that the numbers are right. And 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:28.880 so we went through the whole process. I held out 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:32.240 and it turned out to be well worth it. Right. Yeah, 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:35.800 you come into the league, you got dreads, you got 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:40.680 gold teeth. Did anybody try to convince you, man, you 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:42.400 need to get rid of you need to cut the dreads. 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:44.359 You need to do it with the goal. Did they 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:46.920 try to convince you to like you in the NFL? 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:49.920 Not you gotta like have this like polished image. No. 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:52.279 I think first, first time I'm getting there, you know, 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:55.800 it's like you're surprising everybody because you're the pick right 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:58.760 for a pick. And then I think after I became 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:02.760 real good, real fast, that's when that's when it started coming. Like, man, 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:04.960 you may want to you may want to remove your 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:07.640 dredge you may want to remove your gold teeth because 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:10.640 there's so many opportunities out there for you. And that's because, 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:13.000 you know, when you become real good, and they were like, man, 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:15.960 you got commercials, you have all these endorsement opportunities, right, 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:18.320 and so that's when it really got to push. You know, 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:21.240 after the first year, it was like, I'm going to Indianapolis, 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:24.440 conservative city, right, And it wasn't it wouldn't know. Everybody 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:26.320 just kind of wait and see. But then we hit 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:28.640 it fast. We hit the ground running, right. We changed 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:32.719 that franchise instantly and the division thirteen to three. Yeah, 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:35.800 and then you actually you're actually a dominant player out there. 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:38.480 And so that's when the push came because it's like, man, 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:40.440 it's man, we can we can really market you, we 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:43.200 can really use you because you know, I'm sitting next 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:45.320 to the man, I'm sitting next to p Yeah, and 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:47.200 you know, so they're like, man, you can really do 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:50.480 some some good things off the field, right, And so 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:52.200 that's when that push came for that. But for me, 0:06:52.240 --> 0:06:55.440 it was more, man, I'm I'm edge, you know, that's 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:58.039 part of what made me who I am. So it 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:00.479 was never a consideration for myself you know it was 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:04.960 just from the marketing stamper and the business opportunities. You know, 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:07.719 I could have made millions of dollars off the field 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:11.960 easily and became more popular, But that wasn't my second Yeah, 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:13.560 you know, it's like it wouldn't have been pure, and 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:15.760 it really wouldn't. I don't know what I would have 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:18.760 been on the football field. The gold teeth and the 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:21.240 drill with a part of you, with yourselves, that's where 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:25.000 your strength, Like, that's the strength man, you know, the darker. Hey, hey, 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:27.320 you know this this man I got on my head 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:29.400 and I carry that. You know, it's that strength, and 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:32.200 but you get it. It's really about being yourself, you know, 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:34.520 like you can go farther being yourself and trying to 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:37.240 be somebody else. Why was that so important to you? 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:39.920 Why was it so important for edriand James to maintain 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:42.680 the drills, to maintain the gold teeth. Yeah, you're from 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:45.120 You're from South Florida, and you know when we came 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:46.840 up the gold teeth with a thing, everybody tried to 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:49.400 get the gold teeth or have a gold tooth, but 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:52.440 you had you had the whole grille and you had 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:54.840 to grill It was important because man, you got you 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:56.840 got all these short that look up to you. You 0:07:56.880 --> 0:07:59.840 got everybody that that see you in it, and now 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:03.160 you you kind of get them hope to say, Man, look, 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:04.960 I don't have to go beat this or be that 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:07.040 to make it right, you know. And that why it 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:09.680 was very important for me just to be myself. And 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:12.040 plus I don't I don't know no other way, you know. 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:15.720 So it was really important because the world is opening up. 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:18.160 You know what. I'm like, Man, I'm here to play football. 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:20.320 You know, if you if you are polished and you 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:22.680 got yourself together, but you can't ball, they're gonna get 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:24.560 rid of you anyway. Right. But I know if I 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:26.960 can get out there and play ball and play at 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:29.280 a high level, I ain't worry about them get rid 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:31.240 of me. But you think about the night Edge. You 0:08:31.360 --> 0:08:34.200 were the first, you one of the few. Not everybody 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:37.719 got drigged, everybody got twisted, everybody got coming out the helmet. 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:39.720 But when you did it, you wasn't a whole lot 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:42.640 of people doing that. Yeah, tell them things to age. Yeah, yeah, 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:45.880 you may be comfortable right now. Yeah you did. You 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:49.199 definitely made him comfort. So you said, like, I got 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:51.559 an opportunity. I'm next to paint many obviously painting this 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:54.320 button up. You look at Marvin Harrison, he's really quiet. 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:59.920 Buttoned up you Reggie was there yourself? Did you look around? Like? What? Dang? 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:03.800 Look where I'm at and all this money, I mean, 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:07.320 I can make almost as much money off the field 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:09.680 is on the field. All I gotta do is just 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:12.480 no little tape up, you know, little shave up, you know, 0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:15.079 pull the grills off it. But then they won't be 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:17.800 fun like I got fun money. You know, I got 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:20.640 to be myself. You know, it's like we want we 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:22.920 want to live in this little box and you can't 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:25.400 do like the way I live my life. Man, I 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:27.560 get to beat me. I don't have to walk around 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:30.000 right and try to put on this disguise and try 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:33.240 to put on and that ain't fun. You know. It's like, okay, 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:35.319 if you get some money and you're able to enjoy 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:39.840 it a lot. Yeah, Because this is the dreadlock with 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:42.280 the dreadlocks and the gold teeth and kidding from South 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:45.880 Florida that probably chased did you uh you? From you? 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:47.920 From my you from Miami? Right? No, I market it's 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:50.320 our Western mind. But for who kids with it. I 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:54.160 we got. We had a lot of guys in better 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:57.520 state for Bell Glades. Yeah, we grew up on the Yeah, 0:09:57.559 --> 0:10:04.280 we'll grow up on our western minami Ricky jack Foot. Yeah, yeah, 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:07.880 that's the area. But they did they think they brought them. 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:10.880 They brought some players apart of there too, Right when 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:15.200 when you look, kid, you're playing with you, you're playing 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:17.800 with your cousin, you're playing with your homeboys, y'all playing football. 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:21.040 What was it like for you growing up then? Obviously 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:23.319 you didn't have a whole lot, but you had the 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:25.480 love of your family. You had people around you that 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:27.480 loved you. What was it like for you as a 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:30.360 child growing up? Now? It's normal like that, it's normally. 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:33.400 You don't realize things aren't normal till you step outside 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:36.080 of your space, you know, because everybody living just like me. Yeah, 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:37.800 it wasn't no big deal, you know, you don't. You 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:40.280 don't even realize. It's like, it's so much more to 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:42.080 offer of the world, got so much more to offer, 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:46.040 right until you remove yourself from that space. And then 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:48.760 but then the beauty of it is I got a 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:51.040 great appreciation for things, and that's why I like every 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:53.160 day I'm having a good damn always in a good 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:55.720 space because I know where I'm coming from, a lot 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:59.200 of people they don't really understand what it's like to 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:01.959 make it out a certain situations. So and I think 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:05.160 all our lives kind of run parallel, especially like the athlete. 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:07.000 You look at the ones that's dumb that they always 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:09.000 got a story. Yeah, they always got something to make 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:12.120 them dig deep. You had to something, yeah, everybody, I 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:14.560 mean every champion got to overcome something or it ain't 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:18.000 even fun. You know, that's when it's worth it. Mentioned 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:21.480 I'm reading your Bioles said you harvested watermelons in Georgia. Yeah, 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:23.599 we just had to go do that. What part of 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:28.199 Georgia were we heited to? It was like Ashburn, Cordia, Okay, 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:32.080 South Middle Georgia. Yeah we had but we had to go. 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:33.840 Like it was for us. It was a thing that 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:36.480 there was like a chance to get away from South floor, right, 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:37.960 you know. So it's like we get a chance to 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:41.120 go out and watermelons. They eat load watermelons. Not easy. 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:43.960 I did that. That didn't eave a job, I know, 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:46.160 but at the end and make you make you tough 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:50.000 and eat that grown man. I ain't want to be tough. 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:52.680 I want to be the other kids. I want some money. 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:55.400 I want some money. And I was like, man, I 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:57.480 figured out how to get me some money. Like that 0:11:57.559 --> 0:11:59.720 was a way to get some money on my own. 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:02.599 You know, especially when you're thirteen fourteen, you know you 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:04.200 got the fire. I want to do chores to get 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:06.040 some money. I want to take out the trash I want. 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:09.800 I ain't want to be doing grown man work. I 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:12.880 ain't gonna lie. I appreciate the grown man work because 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:15.640 I ain't doing no more grown the rest of my life. 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:17.800 You know what I tell I tell kids that when 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:20.400 I talk to kids, now, do a lot of things 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:23.000 while you're growing up, because they'll show you what you 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:24.480 don't want to do for the rest of your life, 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:30.559 exactly doing that, propping tobacco, clipping onions, load watermelon bailing. Hey, man, 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:32.080 I don't want to do this for them forty years 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:35.280 y'all crazy, some of this. I don't even like lifting 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:37.559 my own bags now. Man, Like man, I ain't doing 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:39.960 nothing hards but and that's what I'm saying. I got 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:42.200 all that out the way early. Everything is depending on 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:44.080 the weather it rained. You can't go to work you'll 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:48.559 get no payday. Cat WoT no parts it is. Yeah, 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:51.160 I really like you said you didn't really lift weights 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:54.199 until you got the until you got to college. Yeah, 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:56.319 Like I mean I would I want part of no 0:12:56.400 --> 0:12:59.240 weight program. You know. Our stiff want structure like that, 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:01.360 you know, and that would say everything is off the 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:03.319 muscle right here. You know, Like you get the college, 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:05.400 you gotta weight room, you got a program, you got 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:07.800 all that stuff right there. You can't help but to 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:10.200 get better. I couldn't help but to get better. You know. 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:12.320 Now you get three good meals a day. It ain't 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:15.720 no eat but we always ate good. You ain't good, right, 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:18.079 We always ate good. We always ate good. After the 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:20.000 came out in Live with y'all there, no, we're gonna 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:22.480 say the family gonna make sure we eat good. That's 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:24.720 one thing you're gonna do. You're gonna eat good. You 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:27.520 wanted to transfer high school and your mom said no, 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:31.880 Yeah nah, see not like it's it's like we don't 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:34.720 need to go somewhere else to kind of get that advantage. 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:36.800 You know what I'm saying. Like the game of football 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:40.160 is if you good, you good, you know, and a 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:43.120 lot of people don't realize the team needs you more 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:45.040 than you realize it, right, you know, And if you're 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:46.880 really good you can help this team. They're coming to 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:50.520 get you. So that's one thing that that was that 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:52.560 my mom made sure, like we're gonna stay right here, 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:55.360 We're gonna rock, We're gonna rock out right here. And 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:58.360 if they come for you, they come for you. And 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:01.440 that the university. Mind me there, Your mom was a 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:05.680 cafeteria worker, made seventeen thousand dollars a year. What was 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:08.959 how did you see what she's going through if you 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:12.160 try to provide for you and your family? What kind 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:14.920 of fire did that light inside of you? Like, man, 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:16.720 look at what my mom going through. My mom shouldn't 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:18.600 have to work gets hard. I got to get up 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:20.680 out of here. I mean, when you ship an opportunity, 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:22.480 you're like, okay, yeah, you want to be the one 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:24.920 that you want to be the one that saved the day, 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:26.720 you know, and like you want to be the one 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:28.360 that said okay. Like a lot of a lot of 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:30.320 times everybody was talking about what they'll do for their 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:33.120 mom or what they'll do. They running out going to jail, 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:35.560 they're going out to get in trouble and like, nah, 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:37.600 like you're gonna represent for your mom. You gotta make 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:39.760 sure you're staying out of trouble. You make sure you 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:41.440 retire her, You make sure you take care of her. 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:44.400 You make sure that when she walk in the room 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:47.480 and her son his name is bro, she light up. 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:49.680 You know what I'm saying, like, yeah, this this is 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:52.000 my child. You don't want to be where where your 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:55.240 mom always going worried about you. They gotta go to 0:14:55.240 --> 0:14:57.640 the prison to see you. Like every time you like 0:14:58.040 --> 0:14:59.800 every time you go to the prison, you gotta go. 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:02.400 You see a bunch of moms in there. It's like 0:15:02.520 --> 0:15:04.720 everybody talking about what they'll do for their MoMA. Like, now, 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:07.320 I'm really about that, you know, I'm really about taking 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:09.280 care of my mom. And I really dedicated myself to 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:12.320 doing that, and I made sure that I said, man, look, 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:14.800 I'm gonna go do everything I can do make sure 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:16.280 this lady don't have to work, don't have to do 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:18.680 nothing the rest of her life. And I've been upholding 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:20.200 my end of the bargain, you know, But it all 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:22.840 came from the beginning. When you sit up, then you 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:25.120 make that commitment and you said, man, I'm not I'm 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:27.200 not about to be out here getting in trouble, you 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:30.440 know for that word, Yeah, that's that's really embarrassing your mom. 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:32.920 But like a lot of times, you're seeing everybody like, man, 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:36.680 I'll die for my mom. I get embarrassing. You're killing her. 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:40.560 You're killing her right now with the way with your actions, 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:43.520 you know. And so for me, it was always important 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:46.000 to say, Okay, look, if I got an opportunity to 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:48.040 do something, let me make the most out of it. 0:15:48.120 --> 0:15:50.560 And that's why with football, you know, that was my 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:54.360 opportunity going into your senior year, He's like, Okay, this 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:57.280 is my opportunity to shine. Did you always want to 0:15:57.280 --> 0:15:59.640 go to the University of Miami or was it about 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:04.200 getting those scholarship and getting getting one step closer to 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:06.680 doing what you had said the time? My mom taking 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:09.200 care of my mom, making sure my mom. Hey mom, 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:11.080 you ain't gonna do nothing else. You gotta you got 0:16:11.080 --> 0:16:12.880 a son, They're gonna take care of this thing. We 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:17.520 straight now. The University Minement always top dog, number one school, 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:20.440 like especially in South Florida, you know, the University Mineent 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:23.000 was always the number one choice, you know, the only 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:26.120 thing that made me even look into other situations because 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:28.080 the University. Mine was coming up with SAT They had 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:29.960 these sanctions, they were about to go on probation, right, 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:32.880 so we had to look into all those factors, you know, 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:35.640 to see, Okay, are they gonna do something with the program? 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:38.760 Is gonna be restricted? You know, Once we got the information, 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:41.560 that's a no brainer. Like I think, I think that's 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:43.800 the best school in the world, you know, because it 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:47.240 provides everything. You know, it provides. It's a it's a 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:49.920 total package, you know, Like I ain't I'm not built 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:51.560 from no college town, you know. I want to be 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:55.960 with an action. I gotta be where it's set. So 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:58.640 Alabama and the LFU that we're gonna cut it for 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:02.080 you huh, but nah, they do. They just they just 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:05.600 drink beer and wrestling and play video games. I like, man, 0:17:05.600 --> 0:17:07.119 I ain't got time for all that. Man. You know, 0:17:08.119 --> 0:17:13.120 like we're hat to you. Man, we're really doing our thing. Well. 0:17:13.160 --> 0:17:15.480 If you from if you go to the you obviously 0:17:15.760 --> 0:17:20.720 trick Daddy and Uncle Luke automatically. Yeah, ain't no whale 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:23.760 rotting automatically. But I'm saying that's that's the thing. We 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:26.280 got our We got our own everything, you know, we 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:30.000 got our own rappers, We got our own everything. And 0:17:30.160 --> 0:17:33.439 but it's it's a small it's a small school. But 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:36.800 it's the thing, the hunger and and things that you 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:39.960 get from coming from that place. You know. It's like, man, 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:42.600 it's something you can't really describe. That's why you are. 0:17:42.880 --> 0:17:45.400 You see, it's anything you've been on with somebody from 0:17:45.440 --> 0:17:47.600 the youth. You're going in the locker room, you're gonna 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:51.440 know they're a little bit different. Yeah, bag, They're always different. Man. 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:57.480 I played with Poulters, Man, Pulfrid Pole will do bad 0:17:57.480 --> 0:17:59.720 out with feet. You should have been around Poe a 0:17:59.720 --> 0:18:02.520 lot longer that Pope would have done right. Pope wouldn't 0:18:02.520 --> 0:18:05.160 do right for nothing. Gonna get it together, man, that's 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:06.960 my boy. Man, you can get it. You can get 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:10.280 it right. I told you, don't realize how special you are. Man. 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:12.480 I know I'm gonna do no, you're not gonna do 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:14.600 right right. I just saw you leave the hotel half 0:18:15.359 --> 0:18:19.640 for the game. You're gonna do right. But that's my boy. 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:22.240 I love that dude. I love that dude. Yeah, man, 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:25.560 good good dude. Man, Like that's my boy. Man. What 0:18:26.040 --> 0:18:28.320 with the like hanging out with Trick and and Luke, 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:31.400 you know, I mean like we all like like Trick, 0:18:31.440 --> 0:18:33.840 we all around the same age, so we kind of 0:18:33.840 --> 0:18:36.360 grew together, right, Like we grew together, you know, Uncle 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:40.640 Luke a little bit old. He always been the mentor. Yeah. Yeah, 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:44.440 But the thing about it is that like when you 0:18:44.560 --> 0:18:47.000