Quincy Carter

But yeah, Mick, man, life was, to me, it was humbling, you know, coming down here from Chicago.

As a kid, I thought I had everything I wanted.

You know what I mean?

We didn't grow up in the nicest of neighborhoods.

My mom don't like to tell me exactly exactly.

My neighborhood, so honor mom on that.

But it was humbling.

Grew up at the Recreation Park.

Nick, I was a kid that got dropped off at Gresham Park, did all my homework there.

And that's where my competitive nature started, you know?

And that's where sports started for me.

It was table tennis and bumper pool that moved to basketball, baseball, and football.

And I wanted to play all three.

You know, also, you know, coming up, you know, closer to high school, I wanted to play at the best high school for football.

And we, you know, actually had a good baseball and basketball team, but that football team was Southwestern Cal High School.

You know, Coach Buck Godfrey had established himself in the late 80s, mid to late 80s.

In the 90s, we're starting.

And I wanted to keep that tradition going.

We had just went to a

A state championship in 1990.