hand and that they got through cutting on me and he said, son, you're
going to be in this hospital for the next 40 days.
I walked out of the hospital on the third day. They said, you broke a
record. How did you do it? And I said, first and foremost, the thing I
want y'all to understand, I will never let a circumstance or a situation to
find my life,
but most importantly, you know what? I had invested. I had sweat
equity. I had been working my whole life and what I didn't understand
by being determined to chase something by being committed to it. And
what commitment is commitment to staying true to what you said you
were going to do long after the mood that you have set it in has left.
You see, people think commitment to saying, yes, I'll do it on the days
when it felt good. But I had been committed to everything that I ever
started in my life and I never stopped and I never quit it. And so by
being committed to everything that I started, I finished it. It built a
certain type of spirit.
It built a certain type of mentality. It built a certain type of individual,
and still now, I couldn't quit even if I wanted to. I couldn't lay in the bed
even if I wanted to. I couldn't stop even if I wanted to. I had too much
sweat equity in my life and everything that I was doing. I understood the
process is more important than the product.
It wasn't about the outcome for me once I made it to the NFL or not, that
was inconsequential in God's plan for my life, but I was going to fall in
love with that process because I understood by falling in love with that
process, it was going to turn me into a machine. A lot of people need a
little extra money to get motivated.