Mike Flint

Really two stories, same man, two totally different individuals though.

The younger man that was kicked out and then the older man that went back to play, they were not the same guy.

Well, my father was a World War II veteran.

I talked to so many people about violence.

my dad, because it was my dad that put me on that path of violence.

But looking back on my life, it was my mother and the things that she went through that I didn't find out until I was a little older that so inspired me in so many different ways.

Uh,

My dad started boxing with me when I was six years old.

He called it boxing.

I was pretty sure what we were doing was fighting.

But it wasn't so much the physical training that he gave me as it was the mental training that he gave me.

I called it boxing.

Years later, I called it mind games.

Daddy just called it being ready.

I became a trouble seeker.

And so in West Texas, you have to understand the culture there with the Refnex and the oil field, the Cowboys, and then football.

So my senior year in high school...

We won state championship on the team that inspired the movie Friday Night Lights.

Then my freshman year, going into college, I was a star college player.

I was team captain going into my senior year.