Jared Allen
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
The NFL, everybody's fast, everybody's strong, everybody, or some form of an all-American problem.
What makes all these people in college the 1% of 1%?
When you get to those levels where everybody's good, everybody's great, it is a mindset and it's your work ethic.
Guys that work hard, that are hustlers, like that motors, all that, you hear the high motor.
And I'm like, you're actually using those in a negative connotation.
At that point, everybody's talented.
So the fact that I'm willing to outwork you just shows that mentally you're weak.
And that's how I equate it.
I wasn't willing to work out to meet the standard that I thought was acceptable.
I could have hung on for paychecks and racked up five sacks a year and done the minimum, but that's just not who I was.
And so I take that same philosophy of what we're doing.
So
If that passion for something burns or if I'm not willing to put that effort in, then we get out of it.
We don't do it in the first place.
What greater mission or greater purpose to be all in on than your kids and your wife and in your faith?
All this goes away.
When we go in front of our maker, whoever you believe your maker is, when you go in front of them, dollar signs and zeros in your bank account mean absolutely nothing.
Oh, I'm doing great.
I mean, I need you to just be around my house 24-7 every morning with that intro.
You got to have a great day after that intro.