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Alex Smith

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“My legged shattered. I was like immune compromised. And the freedom I have going forward. The mindset because of that, like in that moment, and to think that I want it out of there, right? And again, for her to help me work through that. Again, like, sorry to be long winded, but that really, really cool gif”
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“Well, just talking to me like so real. And again, like she carried such a burden for those two years, like she nursed me back to health. I mean, I had a pick line in my heart. Like she had to like, we had ran. I was in a wheelchair for six months. Like it just was, she carried such a burden, like keeping the house together. And if there was someone that deserved to be like, let's not, you know, no more. Like she did. And I think to just. Put everything in perspective and help me deal with all of that in that moment with such a real thing and such a strong thing. And I don't think, like I don't know if I could have done it if the world had been reversed. And like my life, I think about my life would be so different if I hadn't done that. Like, so different. Like the free, like. Knowing, I mean, I thought I was fragile”
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“Are you fucking kidding me? Hell yeah. Like. You know, I never thought that would happen. And now here I have it in front of me and I'm going to turn it down, right? Like I'm going to turn my back on this. 1,000% And she hates this because it's not like she was like pushing me back to play.”
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“As we're exiting, I am just praying she throws me a lifeline. Like we get in this car and she says, you know what, babe, we just got this great news like the rest of our life. Like, do we really need football? And I want her so badly to give me this, right? Like, because I'll take it right now. Again, like I'm scared to death. Just, again, self-doubt. We get in the car and just sit there. Just, I think she absolutely could sense she knows me better than anybody and can sense where I was at and all my apprehension. And we just sat and talked About regret Of about life The two years of work that I had been putting in, right? And that, like, if you had a flashed back two years prior when I was sitting in that hospital bed and they were talking about amputating my leg. You'd ask that guy then, like I would have jumped at that.”
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“Oh, because forever, it seems so unattainable. It was so far away that while I was chasing it, right? Like, it just, I never was going to get there. And now it's here. Like it's in front of me. Like camp starts in a couple days and I just got the green light. And it's like, oh. Like, what if my leg breaks again? What if I make a fool out of myself? Like, I got permanent drop foot. I got a bunch of crazy shit. I got to try to deal with. Like, this could go wrong in so many ways, right? And I want off this so badly. Like I want, like this train I'm on, get me off. And my wife's there and we leave and we just go sit in the car.”
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“No shit. I have this like the dumbest grin on my face because I'm asking him all these questions. I thought I'd never be able to do again. I'm like, I can go like mountain biking, rock climbing, skiing, snowboarding, right? Like bungee jumping. Like, you know, like you name these extreme things that I never thought I'd be able to do again. And he's like, yeah. And then it kind of hits me in that moment. Oh shit, he's going to let me play football. And my stomach dropped in that moment. And I immediately get in my head again. I'm worried. I'm anxious because I'm like.”
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“Like, hey, why don't you and Elizabeth come over, you know, like tomorrow night, and we'll talk about everything. And I'm like, shit, this is not good, right? Like, we haven't done this. Like, we become incredibly close over two years, but like, this is not good. And so my wife and I go over there, and I'm like, definitely expecting bad news. All the military docs that were consulting on my leg, plus my team of surgeons in DC, it all kind of conferred on the images. Meet him over in his backyard. He pours tequila for everybody, and I'm just like, fuck. And then he says it. And he's Good to go Healed enough, right? And I'm like.”
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“Even though the world was obviously kind of chaotic. And so I go this span of like almost eight, nine months without imaging done. And here we are. We're getting towards the 2020 season. And I knew at this, like, it was kind of as we're getting here towards this time of year, right? Like right training camps going on. It was kind of like make or break time. Like my wife had even said, like, this is either happening or it's not. right like it's this year or never now or never kind of thing and so i go back to dc and i get a big round of imaging done again it had been like eight months and i'm just kind of it had always been bad news i'm expecting kind of more the same because i got to get clearance to get played to to play to have a chance to even try to attempt this comeback and so i got all these mri CT scans x-rays all done and and my lead doctor in dc's”
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“And so I go from getting regular scans to no scans at all. And because like, right, like it's just not happening. And so meanwhile, I've got to the point where I'm lacing up cleats now. And I've told you guys this, like, I'm recruiting every high school kid I can find to come run rocks. My wife's playing defensive end and rushing past her. And I'm trying to see if I can get out of harm's way. And just I'm like loving this. This is like still a special time for me looking back in hindsight.”
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“Nic Coming back from my leg It was a long process, two year process, and throughout the entire time I'm getting regular Scans and X rays on my leg And I had what was called, and I still have what's called a non union. Means my leg's still broken. I have a steel rod in there Was this Not healing As I was kind of progressing through my rehab It wasn't looking good This prognosis And so Meanwhile, I'm kind of pushing ahead, figuring out if I want to push the limits of what I can do. You know, I've said I want to play football again, which was crazy, but I'm kind of like, you know, again, I'm learning to walk. I'm learning to jog and jump and run and do these things all over again. And then COVID hits and the world shuts down.”
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“Listen, like Nobody cried more than Frank Gore. I mean, we like cried. I hope it doesn't care that I'm putting this out there. Man, we would come in, it meant so much to him. He is a first ballot Hall of Famer. I mean, this guy is like the stud of studs. I get asked all the time favorite, like, again, not favorite, but like, he's the guy that I have the most pride that I got to share eight years with him. Right. Like share backfield with him. Like this guy's a stud of a human being. And like, man, will you come in? Like he, I mean, he wasn't like he crying, like in the locker room. Like it was real. And like as a teammate is and a peer, like to see him let loose like that. Like sobbing and screaming and like I mean, it's like, holy shit, like you. Much meat”
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“No, I hear you, and I just think that that's like, I think that's also part of what I feel like we talk about to combat, because that is the Disney narrative, right? I don't want to keep using Disney. I work for Disney, so I hope I don't mean that. But, you know, the Hollywood version”
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“I think that you don't have one without the other, in my opinion. Like, I don't know anybody that I consider strong that isn't vulnerable, right? Like, that isn't real. The best leaders that I knew, the best teammate leaders, that like there was nothing worse than a team meeting or a team gathering or a breakdown and freaking, you know, Disney guy jumps in there and gives some rah-rah garbage, you know, like we everybody got a BS meter. The guys I respected the most, the leaders, whether they were coaches, teammates, peers. That were vulnerable and walked in and kept it real, right? And like whatever moment, you know, like the ups, the downs, the inbetens, like, I just think that that's what real strength is.”
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“Certainly, I've always known that story. I've known that since I was. Since I could remember. Our name is Smith, the most popular name in America, why we got it. Certainly, there was A lot of pride for me. St Sacrifices, like I knew I knew his story though. Like as a kid coming here and working his way west on the railroads In the military. And then my grandpa served in the Navy. Proud and my dad knew it. He was my dad's grandpa. And so my dad would tell his stories when he was older. Kind of this like”
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“The Smith line comes from So Long story short, on my back with my dad, my dad was a longtime educator, was a high school principal for 25 years. We proposed this idea of going and getting tattoos together. And I'm like, he's not going to say yes. Turns out he was for it. And it's a Serbian cross. And a Serbian cross, I'm not religious, but this was like, you know. Serbian cross obviously is an equilateral cross, and in each quadrant. I put the four. Letters of my great grandpa, my grandpa, my dad, and me as a line to this. Wow. Right. As where I come from, certainly sacrifices that have been made On top of it in Serbian is OTEC, which means father, and kind of a line of the fathers. And this is my line of Smith. I don't know my real name. It would be. We've tried to research it and find out, and it's just a dead end.”
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“And I've got the waspiest name there is, right? But ironically, it's funny you just say that on my I have a tattoo, one tattoo And I got it with my dad on his 60th birthday. And the name Smith, my name's Smith, comes from. And he was 12 when he came through Ellis Island. With his brother, who was 14. And he was given or took the name John Smith. To the day he died, he ended up working his way west on the railroad, served in World War I in the Army. Never told anybody his real name till the day he died, not his wife, not his kids, not his grandkids.”
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“Patrick and I, and it wasn't any like I didn't whisper any words of, yeah, like that's just not, he got a front row view right alongside me to go see all those things, to watch me watch film, to watch me prepare to play a game, to like, you know, all the little things. And so, and that's what mentorship is, you know, as a side of, as a part of being a teammate.”
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“Or than the words, although I love that, you know, are you going to live? But it was how he went about it, right? And how he lived his life and how he attacked the problem. That was the biggest example and had a huge profound effect on me. And like it became this challenge to myself that like I stole from him. And I was like, are you going to live? Man, are you going to be present? Because you've been gone for six years. Like you've been out there on the field, but you're not there. And you probably had no idea. In fact, I've talked about it. I know he had no idea the effect he had on me at the time. And I think that's the cool thing when I try to talk like the power of teams. And this is, again, to kind of bring it, I guess, full circle. I get asked all the time about the Mahomes mentoring him. Why'd you do it? And like, I do go back to I was alone in those meeting rooms, like watching film and had no idea what I was doing. And it sucked. And like.”
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“And, like, I'm so worried. Again, and I've been pretending. That this isn't hard, right? Like that I like again. And here's this guy. Like, I mean, like third string linebacker and he is confronting the problem, right? Like it is, man, this thing is hard what we're doing. And I'm going to go out there despite all of that, right? And I'm going to live on the other side of the coin, like the courage side again. And I was in the fear kind of side if there were two mindsets. And I would go watch him and he like by no means was he perfect, but man, he played fearless. And it was his.”
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“And just came to practice every day with like an energy and a joy. Again, before games, right? Like I told you guys, that's when I was at my worst, like sitting on my stool just in my own head, worrying. And Blake there before games, again, as we creep towards kickoff, just would like be the energy level would just go up. And he would run around. He had this saying, and he would run around the locker room and he would like literally get in guys' face. Like he'd come over and be like, Shane, are you going to live today? Maybe that because I'm going to live, right? And I'm like, I remember sitting there and like, I'm the quarterback. I'm the number one overall pick”
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“You asked about teammates, and I think there's definitely a teammate that had the most profound impact on my career. And this was in hindsight. His name is Blake Costanzo. I told these guys this story. He was a third string linebacker. He, again, I don't know what college he went to. If you looked at him, if you ran into him on the street, you would have no idea he played professional football. Like he didn't look the part at all. And he was on every special teams, right? Like he was on kickoff return, kickoff, punt return. And every team has these guys. There's like five of them that are on all these core special teams. They're all backups. They're not starters on offensive or defense. They don't get any like limelight. Nobody knows their names. And Blake, man. Like, loved what he did.”
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“And sitting and watching film because quarterbacks watch film and they prepare for the game and they spend hours and I like, I do that. Like, you know, like I can do that. And like, so I would just, I remember like Wednesday nights and Thursday nights, like I would just be in the film room till like nine, ten at night watching. And I had no idea what I was doing. I just wasting time, right? Like, and I was by myself. The other two QBs at the time had combined one start and like were at home at four o'clock. And like I remember just being there watching film on myself and just having no idea what I was doing and it not helping, right? And I still go out there and just like suck. And so Felt very alone. Okay. Very alone in that”
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“Taught each of you the most about being a good teacher. Couple things come to mind for me there. Very distinctly remember when I got again getting drafted, and there was this big stigma. I played in the shotgun in college and spread offense and, you know, there's this big stigma that I played in. A gimmicky college offense, and I couldn't play in a quote unquote pro style offense. And so, like, I had to be able to play from under center and, you know, be a pocket passer and be all these things. And so this was something that I had to prove to everybody that I could do. And so I get drafted and again, I'm running this West Coast offense, quote unquote, in my rookie year. Now my first couple years, like I'll never forget getting ready to go play in the NFL. And I had no idea what I was doing, right?”
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“I think there's this false sense that, like, well, do what you love, like that idea of love and that you, it should all just be like super enjoyable. I don't, I totally agree, Ravi. Like, it has to be hard. That has to be inherent in it. You know, there has to be something at risk to go try to take that on and the potential to fail.”
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“Isn't it always like that though? Yes. Like in hindsight, when you're in the middle of it. This is like the, I always find it funny. I love the office space thing, right? Like when the guy's talking about, how do you know what you're supposed to do in life? And it's like, well, the question is, the counselor question is like, well, if you had a million dollars, then what would you do? And the guy's like, nothing. You know, like I would just do nothing.”
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“And that so much of these harbiisms that I think great leaders and founders have and coaches. And that was a big part of it for me. And it had a huge effect on me. That moment”
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“And don't worry, right? Like the last two words he said were don't worry. I had just spent six years worrying. That's all I did was worry. I worried. I was just constant worrying. And it really just resonated with me. And I think combined with like, listen. Be remiss to say certainly the entire coaching staff that same team the year prior when I was getting face to face with Mike Singletary and getting Chanting the backups name, I think we won five or six five games. I mean, the very next year we won 13 and went to the NFC Championship game. The year after that, we won another 13 and went to the Super Bowl. We had better coaching staff. They were smarter. They put together better plans. We were coached better. Like, I don't want to pretend like that wasn't a part of this. But there were also this other big chunk that's not technical.”
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“And so he very quickly could relate. He played quarterback. And he certainly, everything, the way he approached the game, his enthusiasm towards the game, his gratefulness towards the game was infectious. And I've told this guy's like, he literally said the same... Words before we left the locker room, right before the game, right? So you're fully dressed, you've gone through all your warm-ups, you're getting ready to run out onto the field on Sunday. My stress and anxiety was always at its highest in that moment, right? Like my self-doubt was maxed out. And Jim Arbaugh's last words to us, always, every single week we're the same. And he would say, play as hard as you can, as fast as you can, as long as you can.”
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“No, I didn't know. No, I didn't decide. Certainly, that was rock bottom of like, I think that was recognition of I'm not doing this anymore, like this same, like I'm not ignoring what's going on my own, again, consumed with my own self-doubt. Like, I'm not going to just keep blocking this out, pretending like it's not happening. Like that was the moment, I think, where it was like very real. Jim played quarterback for 15 years. He played for the San Diego Chargers. I grew up in San Diego. I remember watching him play as a kid. He had had a ton of success at Stanford. Here he comes over to the Niners with us.”
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“What I've been doing is this is not working. I've been trying so hard to please these very people. I want nothing more than to validate my draft status, right? Like I was drafted to turn this franchise around. And I want so badly to do that for everybody. And like this whole thing is flipped upside down now. And here I am in this moment. And so that certainly was probably rock bottom. Luckily, it coincided with, you know, a coach that really changed my career shortly thereafter. We, you know, wasn't a couple months later, we hired Jim Harper. You know, and again, it's the same motivators there like to flip it the other way that he helped me and certainly some of my teammates get back to a point of like right fearlessness, selflessness. A healthy perspective and motivation towards a challenge. Did you just”
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“I'd had this bonehead fumble where I was trying to make this play. And shortly thereafter, the whole stadium is chanting the backup quarterback's name, who is David Carr. So I'm at my home stadium, which by the way, that entire time, five years, like I looked forward to road games because it like it did ease the pressure slightly, right? Like playing in front of, which is crazy, right? Because home field advantage is a very real thing, like as a quarterback. The rest of my career was flipped, right? Like as it should be. And so you have 80,000 people chanting David Carr. I've got this head coach. In my face, I can feel the cameras on me and Know just like I think finally then realizing this isn't working.”
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“Confronts me on the sideline. And like our defense had given up, I don't know how many points at that we were losing. It wasn't my fault. I had some bonehead plays, but it certainly wasn't my doing. And he gets in a confrontation with me on the sideline. An outer body experience to be on national TV. And here's this guy that like Mike Singletary, me, played linebacker, playing quarterback. It's very, very different things and I felt like he had irrational expectations of what it took to play quarterback. And how dependent you are on so many other things to have a chance at success. And so he's in my face on the sidelines, again on national TV. Incredibly uncommon. I mean, something I wasn't prepared for as a young man. And in the same instant,”
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“Just unhappy. Football's a game I loved. And all of a sudden, I'm just, I don't want to go to work. You're getting ready to run out of a tunnel to go play a game. And though I don't want to be there, are you kidding me? Like if you'd have told me that, you know, a year earlier, like, let's go. And gosh, I think this was like five or six years in my career at a home game and candlestick. We're playing the Philadelphia Eagles. I think it's on a Sunday night. So primetime game. you know the whole country watching on NBC and we're playing the Eagles fittingly Andy Reid on the other sideline. And, you know, they were good and we were not talented, but not very good. I had some turnovers in the second half. We're losing. And Mike Singlederry.”
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“They might as well idolized, right? And I definitely didn't think that they had self-doubt, right? Like, well, they don't, they aren't feeling, they aren't dealing with the same things I'm dealing with, which is completely wrong in hindsight. Like, I, you know, played along enough, a bunch of gold jacket members. One just went in. Patrick Willis, like everybody, like these guys, everybody deals with self-doubt. It is the most human of emotions. And so I just had no idea in hindsight again and just kind of like pretended like it wasn't there. And it just festered and got worse and grew and got worse To the point Where, like, I think I eventually had to hit rock bottom? Was that when was rock bottom? Oh man. You know, so I had spent several years ignoring this.”
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“A tough football player, and I'm not talking to anybody about this, and I'm just going to bury it and pretend like it's not happening. And hopefully I get through this thing. And I think in hindsight, that was like the worst thing I could have done, right? The best thing I could have done was like, Listen, this is freaking ridiculously hard what you're getting asked to do, right? Like this is absurd, absurdly hard, right? And also in that, like confronting that, I think also confronting the fact that, and I didn't know this at the time, but like, listen, because there were guys in the locker room, older guys that like I absolutely.”
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“Laying in bed at night, having dinner with my friends or girlfriend at the time who became my wife, certainly at the facility. And it mounted towards Sunday. I mean, to the point I couldn't eat before games, you're throwing up. You're sick, like you're just all consuming, and it's all negative, right? Every, you know, I think we've all had that voice in our head And at that point, I had 15 of them, right? And it just drowned out everything else and was terrified of the word bust And I think the biggest thing looking back at that time is I tried to pretend like it wasn't happening. And that was the biggest problem.”
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“I mean, it was so burdensome. Like, the weight that I walked around in and it never left. Can you zoom in on that a little bit? Because I suspect almost nobody has experienced the sort of external pressure that you had and you're talking about, like the world, you know, watching and aware of your performance. But I also suspect that basically everyone listening has had some period of extraordinary self-doubt. And it's hard to get through. Zoom in on like the emotions and like what that was literally like. Like, did you feel that in the shower? Did you feel that lying in bed? Do you have trouble sleeping? Like, how did it manifest? All the time. Yep.”
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“Know it's like the best feeling in sports, right? To be accountable. Like to quickly flip on that, it was only months later that I got drafted with the number one overall pick. Everything changed for me. Everything changed, right? And like, That courage that I took the field with, that fearlessness that our entire team embodied, like I didn't have that anymore. And in fact, I was on the other side of it. Like I was, the expectations were so great. I had so much self doubt, right? That, like, I was in over my head, that, and I was scared to death. Like, I thought I had to be perfect. And I was scared to death to make a mistake. And I walked out onto the field. And I did everything, not just on the field. Like I did everything tiptoed around on eggshells. And it was, it...”
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“We all had an edge. The entire team had an edge, had something to prove. And so I took the field with a fearlessness every single game. Kind of like fuck you. Excuse my language, I'm out here to do something, and I don't care. I wasn't worried about making a mistake. No one was expecting anything anyway, right? And I think we played on with an edge. As a team, and we're out to do something, we were a little school in the Mountain West that at the time they had this BCS thing and we wanted to be the first school. They didn't allow us in the club, you know, and we wanted to break the wall down. And that was the goal and everybody was roan in the same direction. And you woke up with a singular focus every day that that's what we wanted to go do. And it was important to all of us. And then to go achieve it, obviously.”
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“I had one college scholarship offer, right? And that was my dream. My dream growing up, like I love Saturdays. Like I loved college football. I loved, again, getting your education, the idea of the student athlete, running out on the field and like the student section going crazy and that relationship with the student section and we're all part of this great big culture that we've been craving, right? And you're just a role in that and getting your education and obviously then moving forward with your life. One school gave me that opportunity. There certainly when I got there was this, you know, I had it along with probably everybody else there that like. Were we good enough, right? Like, was I deserving of this? Was I good enough? And certainly we all embodied that, and this comes back to Urban, like.”
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“A good place, and I'm fascinated motivation because I grew up and I never imagined in my wildest dreams I'd play professional sports. I was like too realistic a kid like I just heard the odds. It's not in the cards for me. I grew up a very normal kid. I wasn't like a crazy standout by any means growing up.”
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“About my college days, like that, you know, and I played for urban. I would almost call like a psychologist as much as a coach. I think there's certainly selflessness is one of the first things that comes to mind. And I think you could put that with trust, right? Like mission focus, like the team's bigger than us, right? And everybody thinks that, right? Everybody's putting the team before themselves. And I think that is critical for any great team, right? That, again, and you want that. And I think at the core of everybody, you want to be a part of something bigger than yourself, right? Like that's why you're there. That's why you're willing to sacrifice and do so much. And I think at the core of that comes the motivation.”
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“Man, this was just personal trauma. Triumph Overcoming this, that'd be a joke. Absolute joke. Like, Phenomenal Help me go do that Again, and I think that's at probably at the end of the day.”
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“Played with quarterbacks that, like, ag Again, went to some deep. This guy came in. I'm like, Guy can sling it This guy's a good player. Like, The difference between me and him Was the number one pick in Is so small. Way more And I think by nature of the great teams are really only formed. Do things that you can't do yourself. Challenges and obstacles that you can't achieve by your Require great teams because you can go farther and do things. Together You just never thought imaginable. And I am like Living, walking proof of that. Especially the quarterback position. You just given way too much credit for things. That you had nothing to do with Are lifted up by so many people around you. And then Even take it beyond sports. But a lot of people know me for like my Injury and coming back, like Much as I would love to say, like.”
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“At these corners of these defensive ends that I've never heard of. Never heard of. I don't even know the college they went to You watch the film, you Guy, these guys Monster, right? L Is everywhere”
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“That I'm like, you've never heard of. You would turn on the film. Week you're prepping, you turn on the film. Know their roster”
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“Talent's not that rare. Especially the higher you get. Like talent's everywhere I just don't think it's that big of a rarity as people think it is. Especially on the professional level. Everybody is good.”
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