00:00I might get a little emotional because it's how I always get when I talk about my parents.
00:12I mean, everybody has parents, man, but I don't understand how much they meant to me.
00:29I mean, growing up where I grew up, it ain't easy.
00:34It ain't easy, but they found a way for me, and you don't understand that until you get older,
00:40until you have kids on your own, and the sacrifices they made for you, and things they did for you.
00:53It's just, thinking about my dad, the sacrifices he made, he was never the breadwinner in our family,
01:02but for some reason, him and my mom made it work, and their relationship lasted for so long,
01:10and when you saw, you know, how they was compatible with each other, and how they made our lives easier,
01:20and, you know, we had one car.
01:22My mom took the car to work, and my dad used to take me to practice on his handlebars, you
01:27know, and on a bike.
01:28We used to walk sometimes, and, you know, as a kid, you'd be like, dang, man, like, that walk was
01:33a far walk,
01:35but you realize, like, it's a sacrifice that you got to make to help your sons, your kids' dreams come
01:42true,
01:44and they did it, and it was a point in my career, you know, when my mom passed away in
01:512016,
01:54I didn't care about football no more.
01:56I didn't want to play no more.
01:57I didn't care for it anymore.
02:00I wanted to, you know, just give it up because, honestly, I didn't have a reason no more.
02:05I didn't have, you know, I was doing everything I was doing because I wanted to, you know,
02:11make all her dreams come true because she helped me make my dreams come true the day that I got
02:14drafted,
02:16and, you know, from then on, I was just working to make her life easier, make her life happy,
02:22and the day that she passed away, I thought that I lost it all, and luckily, I had friends, family.
02:33You know, Gerald was one of those guys who, you know, came to my side because he went through that
02:37early in his football journey,
02:39and he, you know, helped me get through it, and then my siblings, you know, I'm the youngest of six.
02:45I mean, yeah, the youngest of six.
02:46My other two sisters, they weren't able to make it today,
02:49but my household, the ones who I had in my household, man, I was the youngest,
02:55and my oldest brother, Marquis, right here, my other brother, Gerard, right there, my sister,
03:01oh, man, they made my life so easy, and like I said, man, like, they're protecting me.
