Akbar Gbajabiamila
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I want to make that clear.
But for him, he felt like he could do it on his own.
Him and my mom could do it on their own.
And they did that with raising seven of us.
And I didn't understand it.
You know, I used to always say, oh, I grew up poor.
I've changed that since then, because when I saw how my father grew up, I realized what my father was able to build in raising all of us.
He made it.
my father and my mother, they made it.
And so I saw that hard work and that resilience that it took to build what they built, and I never forgot that.
But it was also, too, what my parents used to tell me.
You start something, you finish it.
They never let you off the hook on anything.
When did your mom pass?
My mom passed my senior year in college in a car accident.
That sucks.
You want to know what?
Because I was thinking, I was hoping that maybe she saw...
You become the man you became.
And maybe she saw her grandchildren.