00:00:18setting on the same football field at
00:00:21Union 1993 and I made a quote that some
00:00:30people call controversy I call the
00:00:31confidence I said that I might be the
00:00:34greatest player to ever walk upon a
00:00:36University of Maya I did not say that
00:00:40because I thought I was better than
00:00:42everybody else
00:00:43I said that’s simply because I was
00:00:46willing to put in the work to now be
00:00:51back here 18 years later
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00:01:00you
00:01:03I’m asking nobody here for nothing today
00:01:05I’m not I’m just sharing my story to
00:01:09tell y’all every time you think somebody
00:01:11got a good man ain’t always good
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00:01:18i sat in same chairs you gotta set in
00:01:22man
00:01:23i sat around the greatest applicants in
00:01:25the world
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00:01:31there’s no other man like that willing
00:01:33to give up what I’m willing to give I
00:01:36say that in 1993 what I said I went to
00:01:40be the greatest hurricane and the only
00:01:42thing that I got in the middle of all of
00:01:45that distance it’s the only thing that
00:01:48fathers worked his results
00:01:52there’s no other people
00:01:54I got nor the city
00:01:57I am come here nothing else but to tell
00:02:01you if you’re looking from okay you want
00:02:05to better when I say super garbage
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00:02:14[Music]
00:02:20there’s not a person on my team 16
00:02:22minutes that is consistently beaten to
00:02:26the bus every place
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00:02:29but I think I’m gonna do attack
00:02:33as it’s got everything
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00:02:40nothing else
00:02:4315 straight years 12 footballs later and
00:02:50the only thing that’s kept me around is
00:02:52my effort so you put on this all I ever
00:02:57knew effort will get me seen I’m Ted
00:03:02effort well getting noticed to get to
00:03:06lead effort but one day take care my mom
00:03:10and my kid effort which is between you
00:03:15nobody else can give us
00:03:19have Debra’s with the side
00:03:22[Music]
00:03:26and I’m still crying because the next
00:03:28kid is talking about begin to old teeth
00:03:30watching me if I
00:03:31[Music]
00:03:39nobody ain’t gotta convince me of what I
00:03:41do I do what I do because I do what I do
00:03:44because I’m built from something and man
00:03:48then create everyone’s meaning you have
00:03:51that opportunity man but I shall set the
00:03:54question personal I was sound
00:04:07question is what living music
00:04:11what drives you
00:04:22know what you care
00:04:24you can’t legs
00:04:27legacy great
00:04:29greatness is a lot of small attention
00:04:32with faith
00:04:35broke-ass and the world
00:04:39yeah
00:04:49greatness is a lot of small things done
00:04:51with they
00:04:55got to work out but the
00:04:59day after day I can’t thank you guys an
00:05:03opportunity I’m going to tell you
00:05:05something it tomorrow wouldn’t promise
00:05:08what would you give for today forget
00:05:12everything else forget everything else
00:05:15forget that that was any sunlight left
00:05:18what would you spend today thinking
00:05:22about yourself or the man that’s beside
00:05:27you or the man that you know you’ll get
00:05:30everything in your heart for we get one
00:05:33opportunity a life one chance in life to
00:05:38do it and were you going to do to lay
00:05:40your foundation to make whatever more
00:05:42people make whatever legacy you only
00:05:45leave your legs and it’s found to ever
00:05:50where the loaf is coming down with us
00:05:53the Kepler nobody judge after the
00:05:58sampler is between you and you
00:06:01everything I’m gonna do with nobody else
00:06:08so that seem to think they ready to see
00:06:11you what they see things our pin shows
00:06:17because everything’s a new day
00:06:19every moment is a new
00:06:23so now you got the cortisone or dick
00:06:25bitch now
00:06:27that was fun
00:06:35cuz I’m pissed off for grapes
00:06:41the three default rate that means
00:06:44working with you and no man is your king
00:06:47bitches
00:06:53so let’s do what we do tonight we never
00:06:58taking a break
00:07:03tomorrow one promised what would you get
00:07:06for today
00:07:10we get one opportunity life one chance
00:07:14in life to do it ever you gonna do to
00:07:19lay your foundation to make whatever
00:07:20wrong you gonna make whatever legacy you
00:07:23gonna leave leave your legacy and it’s
00:07:26time to get where the losses come a dime
00:07:29a dozen but ever nobody can judge f.cuz
00:07:34effort is between you and you everything
00:07:38I’m gonna do it nobody else goes every
00:07:42day is a new day every moment is a new
00:07:45loan so now you have to go on and show
00:07:49them that I’m a different creature now
00:07:51that I was five minutes ago there’s a
00:07:55piss-up
00:07:56for greatness
00:07:58it’s a dream fits all greatness that
00:08:01means you okay with being with you and
00:08:02no man that you okay to be into space so
00:08:07let’s do what we do tonight we got word
00:08:11I take a break
00:08:22it’s always it’s always personal because
00:08:24you know at times I you know don’t like
00:08:26sharing the things that I’ve doing
00:08:27personally but you know sometimes God
00:08:30removes you from thinking about games
00:08:31all the time you know and there was this
00:08:35kid that I’ve been really mentoring
00:08:38Jesus and he felt the pain in his
00:08:41shoulder he realized he had bone cancer
00:08:43and I’ve been helping him out Lord rest
00:08:46in peace Jay and I’ve been helping him
00:08:47out as much as I could and last week you
00:08:50know his mother called me and said Jay
00:08:51is really ill she is really going
00:08:53through it I was like okay I’m gonna get
00:08:57over that soon as this game is over you
00:08:59know and I got the phone call yesterday
00:09:02morning well yesterday and Jay didn’t
00:09:05make you know a 17 year old kid so
00:09:09sometimes that’s why you got the you got
00:09:10the sum up game sometimes and say how
00:09:13important it’s like really because it’s
00:09:15a 17 year old kid that was just waiting
00:09:17for me to come speak to him but a game
00:09:19pulled me away from that from making it
00:09:22ever seeing his eyes see me again until
00:09:24now you know my heart is towards his mom
00:09:26I told his mom I don’t even worry about
00:09:28the outcome on the game I’ll be at the
00:09:30funeral to bury a 17 year old child
00:09:34is life its life man I know we try to do
00:09:38the things that we try to do to keep our
00:09:39minds up in this game but it’s a real
00:09:41pain has gone in this world and Jays
00:09:44whole family is going through pain right
00:09:45now at 17 you get all of all of a sudden
00:09:48just guys and that’s been fighting one
00:09:50of the greatest spirits who were ever
00:09:51meet in your life and I is gone so I’m
00:09:55gonna take my loss as a man hey take
00:09:58credits and remaining pages but there’s
00:10:00bigger issues as a man of God I got a
00:10:02deal with
00:10:06[Music]
00:10:10that’s gonna make some people feel good
00:10:11regardless on how I feel about a game we
00:10:15don’t being here three years in a way
00:10:18[Music]
00:10:27and let the steam of the loop
00:10:32[Music]
00:10:34makes your suited tonight and taking you
00:10:37away from this movie man cuz there’s
00:10:39only job
00:10:46that’ll total three levels of
00:10:48we don’t get this again we don’t get
00:10:51this again the car one new fans that’s
00:10:54why we got the same for these ones cuz
00:10:57they right now
00:11:03understand that when I was 24 and 25
00:11:05that’s why God had incarcerated me so I
00:11:08can see how great my blessing was he had
00:11:10for me
00:11:15so I had a cup of a jail cell being in
00:11:18position
00:11:30position to make my day is the business
00:11:33the damn football that’s why I come back
00:11:38with not letting esteemed audience
00:11:43let’s just think
00:11:47cuz there’s always got
00:11:50that’s what older
00:11:57that’s what we get the same for these
00:11:59moon
00:12:08don’t ever let a day go by that you
00:12:11waste that’s the thing you can never get
00:12:13back there’s something that’s the spirit
00:12:22that grabs with rent and it’s in every
00:12:25one of you guys but the question is how
00:12:28much time we waste I just came out the
00:12:31gym for three hours this morning got
00:12:34five hours
00:12:35I said
00:12:37every day of my life I’m trying to find
00:12:41a different way
00:12:43clothes didn’t tell me to do this
00:12:45remember winter lockout
00:12:48so I need training football I’m trying
00:12:51for lifestyle I’m training because I say
00:12:53it’s something that I wanted to be great
00:12:55ever doing
00:12:56I’m not done that’s the nation that’s
00:13:00the best inside each one of y’all right
00:13:02there 20
00:13:06the question still remains how much time
00:13:09that you’re really wasting if I looked
00:13:12at my club giaffone
00:13:14[Music]
00:13:15never stops for those one
00:13:18so one thank God don’t give us your time
00:13:23it’s your time now the question is what
00:13:27would you do to make sure your time no
00:13:29time is ready will you be ready that’s
00:13:33what I do man that’s all I do
00:13:35can I believe every time I step on and
00:13:37I’ll never cheat one of my team
00:13:39ever
00:13:41I’ve never let one of my team
00:13:44and I never take a break on them oh man
00:13:48you guys got the opportunity to do
00:13:49something right now you wake up in the –
00:13:52don’t let your long be the only
00:13:54thing that wakes you up make sure you
00:13:56wait you’re not on your mind
00:13:58make sure you fall to your knees with
00:14:00your face on the floor say thank you for
00:14:03another opportunity not just to wake up
00:14:05but to feel tough because some people
00:14:09can see something
00:14:13but you strap on people but some
00:14:16shoulder bands put on your crease we all
00:14:18know that feeling feel like there’s no
00:14:21feeling in the world like so now how
00:14:25think though will you get back to them
00:14:27every single day you gotta master your
00:14:30craft that’s what it’s about
00:14:33million kids across this country man
00:14:36this one this one shot harsh reality one
00:14:39person makes
00:14:41one
00:14:43I heard from everything I was too small
00:14:45I couldn’t do this I’m good good ok hand
00:14:48nobody’s ever stepped in that room
00:14:54challenging don’t let coach always have
00:14:58to tell you what to do find a way to do
00:15:01it yourself
00:15:02so that when he we protects you and when
00:15:04he get ready to question and what a
00:15:10that’s when you start having to feel me
00:15:12that’s what a coach appreciates coming
00:15:15into me when before you play your next
00:15:17game you know that better the coast on
00:15:19their phone it’s just competition right
00:15:22so if somebody says all are you ready to
00:15:24be done why I need found man that a
00:15:27fighter outwork me you might have run me
00:15:30on the fourth but you know find out
00:15:32wrote me for 60 minutes I doubt that any
00:15:35because I got no special only thing I
00:15:37got special I made my mind at the be
00:15:39special
00:15:40greatest is a lot of small things done
00:15:43well
00:15:44stacked on top of each other
00:15:48yes ma’am no man pants portable
00:15:52small things
00:15:54that makes greatness so when someone
00:15:56finally sees you they represent you as a
00:15:59king because you all
00:16:02until you set your mindset to think like
00:16:04a king
00:16:05you stay where everybody else is safe
00:16:06that’s the place I don’t want to say I
00:16:09want to go way beyond and that’s what
00:16:11I’m still chasing to this day as long as
00:16:13I was in general
00:16:15a zombies now assemble or whatever it is
00:16:17I don’t know it in this day but if I can
00:16:20change one life today just by telling
00:16:22you to be different do something
00:16:24different and take God with you I’m up
00:16:26here where you go did do it
00:16:29then do it and when you do it that’s
00:16:33your name
00:16:36we work more in the back
00:16:39you’re finally ready to go makes your
00:16:42footsteps
00:16:43as on a reason you guys respectively
00:16:46that’s
00:16:48does that mean online cheese
00:16:51really Angela
00:16:53really I’ve never been big fastest from
00:16:58nothing solve all day all I have her
00:17:02hands number is a
00:17:06get the collars snap 3x coffees like a
00:17:10deck of cards flip over carmine do 6
00:17:13come over another card if I get a Jack
00:17:14queen king after 10 I got an ace under
00:17:1725
00:17:18football joke under 50
00:17:20I mastered a nine years old I played the
00:17:24cards now turn the three different cards
00:17:25if I brought my bag enhancer those same
00:17:28thing that your cards then I travel with
00:17:30every day of my life
00:17:32the only thing I know is I can take a
00:17:34break these are moments we talk I just
00:17:38want to tell you guys thank you to let
00:17:39me come speak to because it’s some
00:17:42spirit that tribes in this room that
00:17:44none of you guys one of these days to go
00:17:46through like a sound remember
00:17:47conversation and now a myth because the
00:17:51next man be that next knowledge is to be
00:17:54gained the commands alone that’s all I’m
00:17:58trying to do I chopped add some type of
00:18:00knowledge to somebody else s go granny
00:18:04I grabbed it differently
00:18:06I love my father with every inch of art
00:18:09but I grabbed it because I didn’t have a
00:18:11father
00:18:12it’s all I could grab on to was my
00:18:14relationship with God my mom retreats
00:18:17out tomorrow never so mine was different
00:18:22so my grand my tasting my mouth was
00:18:24different I never had one now
00:18:30I started airing man because way older
00:18:34shocking waste
00:18:37you gotta make a few minor thing you
00:18:39want
00:18:39don’t let nobody nobody
00:18:42[Music]
00:18:45master water mother George still coke
00:18:49said you’re not good enough he went made
00:18:51itself good simply by Bert
00:18:57so I’m not here to tell you no secrets I
00:18:59need to take another thing on what it
00:19:02was work
00:19:03no worries I get a percolator welcome
00:19:05mister god bless
00:19:09that’s why I keep Brandon
00:19:10that’s what
00:19:12[Music]
00:19:17my maths one take I thank you for
00:19:18opportunity
00:19:20I’m open book come to codes we’ll have
00:19:24some way to get in contact with you
00:19:26poorly I’m all over boom to tell you
00:19:29guys the rebel walk to life alone
00:19:31don’t ever do it along as the runners
00:19:34walk you never tee despite yourself you
00:19:37take some language take some language
00:19:59tap you saw three times on three I never
00:20:21had to put bass in my opponent my
00:20:24opponent half prepare for me I was
00:20:26willing I was willing to go places in my
00:20:29mind then I can promise you too many
00:20:32people on this earth won’t go now I was
00:20:35burst to pain so I won’t tell everybody
00:20:38challenge themselves that way my
00:20:42greatest pain I’ve ever had in my entire
00:20:44life
00:20:45I’m 39 years old I’ll be 40 in three
00:20:48weeks
00:20:49whoo and for the first time for the
00:20:51first time in my life 33 years old 39 33
00:20:56and the first time I actually had a
00:21:00chance to meet my father and it bothered
00:21:02me so much because I still look at
00:21:05myself in the mirror sometimes and say I
00:21:07Know Who I am
00:21:09I never asked to be here
00:21:13but then I’m good come check on me now
00:21:19the question remains why inside of me
00:21:24there was a bird that has never stopped
00:21:28burning there was a crime that I made up
00:21:32in my mind the first time I fell on my
00:21:34knees I know forget it I’m playing and
00:21:37I’m following my knees and I was a tree
00:21:39at digging early and I fell on my knees
00:21:40and I am the first time I heard God’s
00:21:43voice he said can’t even get me now but
00:21:45I’m asking in your daddy’s voice I’m
00:21:48Africa suppose I’m Sydney Christmases
00:21:50with a bag packed I’d have a tee shot in
00:21:53the back and one pair of jeans
00:21:55I got a toothbrush my little toothpaste
00:21:58and I’m saying daddy gotta come today
00:22:00daddy gotta come this Christmas daddy
00:22:04never came daddy never came so I have a
00:22:10decision to make at a very early age
00:22:13when I phoned I would I make up my mind
00:22:17to be remembered forever
00:22:21I made up my mind to be remember forever
00:22:26they are somebody sitting in this
00:22:30audience that has one thing to do the
00:22:36moment you leave here make up in your
00:22:39mind that I’m a different person make up
00:22:44in your mind that there’s something way
00:22:46greater than me
00:22:47I don’t chase money because I can burn
00:22:52it
00:22:53anything the man’s make anything a man
00:22:56make I don’t put too much into it
00:22:58because I can’t take you with me but one
00:23:02thing I can tell you I do every single
00:23:04day of my life if I choose I try to find
00:23:07somebody else to change their life so
00:23:10they know that God is real no pain lasts
00:23:15always no pain but were you really gonna
00:23:19compete with somebody in life don’t know
00:23:21people nobody else but yourself
00:23:23I had to listen
00:23:27to a man tell me who I was
00:23:30and never met me
00:23:33I have to sit next to my grandmother
00:23:35presentation
00:23:38and I heard a man say but I heard a man
00:23:40tell me and I’d never met me
00:23:45he will never make it in a national
00:23:47football he’s too small
00:23:50he’s too short and there’s no way he can
00:23:54survive in the National Football League
00:23:55and I looked at my grandmother my mom I
00:23:58said mama he’s never met me
00:24:00how can he determine them
00:24:06moment under a long time ago
00:24:08be careful put your trust in man
00:24:13then I met that guy
00:24:16I said you know why
00:24:22I can assure you no way
00:24:25because it seems you just speaking about
00:24:27what you think you know
00:24:30my greatest motivation if you win on my
00:24:33wall in my room every wall of my room is
00:24:39everything that every person bad has
00:24:42ever said about me it’s always been my
00:24:46motivation because I get to do I have
00:24:50the chance to do something that the word
00:24:53does not give us a lot I get that I get
00:24:56to do it while you’re watching me my
00:25:02made us the people who say what I can’t
00:25:04do they get to sit in front of a
00:25:06television and watch me do what I do
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