Akbar Gbajabiamila
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
No, I told my friend to get out of the car because I told him I would have worked for Steve Jobs for free for three years just to be in the presence of greatness.
And that's what you did.
But not to be in anybody's presence.
You were willing to go to any length, no matter what, as long as it took to get to where you needed to be.
That is so impressive.
I appreciate that.
I had a high school coach, Coach Duck.
We called him Maurice Duckett.
And he was like, how badly do you want it?
How badly do you want it?
How badly do you want it?
He used to always ask that question.
And that's how badly I wanted it.
I was like, all right, I'm going to do it for free.
And it's not lost on me because I think some people, well, you could do that.
Yeah, I did.
I had made a decent amount of money.
Not a lot.
I was an undrafted free agent.
So it was not like I was balling in the millions or anything like that.