Quincy Carter
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 28 Nov
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You know, we can think we're being slick, but what's done in the dark eventually comes to light and it bit me in my butt.
Yeah, absolutely. At the time, Nick. Now, my addiction would go on, and I'd get a PhD in cocaine, which I'm not proud of. I'm smiling at now, but I'm not proud of it, but I'm proud to be able to tell somebody my journey, man. That's what feels good. But yeah, but at the time, that's what it was, man. Now, a lot of other things were being said, but yes, at the time it was.
Well, yeah, Mick, I had played arena football about two seasons, Mick. And I was up in Kansas City and really close to another one of my friends. Good coaches, Herm Edwards, who was keeping an eye on me and ended up playing like the last, you know, what, four or five games of that season and played, you know, OK enough, you know, garnered some interest from teams.
And the same guy who cut me still believed in me and brought me down to training camp for the Miami Dolphins during the start of that training camp season of 2009. Yeah, 2009. And I had a great workout, Mick, but couldn't stop doing what had got me cut from the Cowboys.
And so he told me, well, Bill Parcells, man, told me to go back to the room and, hey, we're going to sign you, work out the deal with your agent. And I knew Mick going back, you know, it was just a feeling that I had, you know, get done taking the physicals and all that or what have you.
There was a chance that, you know, the things that I hadn't quit just yet, smoking and I, you know, could possibly get caught. And that's what happened, Mick, you know, my agent called me about a couple of hours later. and told me, you know, first of all, Eugene Parker, rest in heaven. And he was just asking me, you know, a question. Why you didn't tell me? Why you didn't tell me?
And I was just like, what, trying to play it off? And he was like, you should have just told me, you know, that you were still having some issues. And we could have just, you know, kind of waited on you going down and working out. But he said they can't even test, you know, your urine. And that's because I tried to mask it, man. And it cost me my job, man. And Bill...
You know, I ain't got too grown yet. But Coach Parcells, man, he was really disappointed, man, because I had done a lot of work in rehabilitation, working down there in Florida with my mentor and sponsor to this day, Hollywood Henderson, who's still in my corner. But I had a golden chance, man, of the man who cut me four years later, Nick. And brought me back, you know, to to get a chance.
But that lesson that I had to learn just got a little bit more harder for me because I wasn't believing in the man yet.
Well, it was two phases of it, Mick. It was the morning that I reached out to Hollywood, July 22nd, 2019. It was that morning, and it was getting on my knees and praying. And the next, you know, moment, Mick was picking up the phone and telling Hollywood, hey man, come get me before sunset. You know, and put me somewhere, man, where I could, you know, work on this thing.
And so that was the spirit of God. That was, you know, Marsha Stone from BRC in Austin coming down and picking me up. And I was in rehab in like five or six hours. But that surreal moment, Mick, was me sitting at a table. You know, I used to get up 435 in the morning, you know, writing all my notes. We're doing, you know, step work and everything. I'll never forget sitting on that porch.
And just looking to the skies, Mick, and just asking God, man, if you're here for me, please show me. And Mick, little bit by little bit, you know, whether it's the phone conversations with my mom I started to have in rehab, whether it's, you know, that bird that was chirping in your ear when you're in a critical spot in your writing and you're talking to God and he's like, Is that God?
And then just seeing my confidence as I'm going through the steps and building, you know, I never disowned God. You know, I got mad at God, Nick, and I got mad because, you know, so much bad was happening to me, you know? But, Nick, what I wasn't accounting for is that I was the one in the way. You know, I was the one that failed, you know, the test for the Cowboys, a dream come true job.
I was the one who was in position to get myself back in the NFL. And I didn't lean on God a little bit more and get that job with the Miami Dolphins, you know? And so, you know, and then being walking home, being, you know, on the bottom of the barrel, but living in an extended state up and coming Georgia.
And somebody stopping me on the side of the road, you know, and now I have a high school, you know, baseball job, a basketball job, a football job, and then coaching, you know, at a prep school too. So God was still, you know, tugging me. Hey, I'm here. I'm here. I'm here. And I was so upset with God. So I strayed away from him.
So accepting those truths, you know, once I got to rehab and just getting closer to him, you know, I thought I knew God as a kid. I thought I knew him, you know, in my early, my early 20s, doing some FCA things and seeing the miracles of God.
But knowing them on that personal level and filling the spirit and not not wanting to not be filling the spirit at any point in your life, man, that's the special, you know, part of our relationship. You know, I love that, brother.
Well, it's a point that you get, you know, when you're in your addiction that you just got to say to yourself, how can I continue to live like this? And if you're there, and most of us, it takes, you know, sometimes it takes longer than others to get there. But it's only two ways that this addiction, man, that you have option was, you know, to get it under control.
And that's one, you have to have someone outside of yourself, you know, to restore you to sanity. And the second one, you know, is, you know, you've got to dig deep in those steps and go through a great, you know, a great 12-step program, whether it's a 12-step program or you just go into a meeting and getting a sponsor. But one of those two things has to happen because...
Because if it came, I mean, if it could come from us, you know, we had the power with inside of us, we wouldn't have this addiction. We wouldn't be taking ourselves to hell. Who wants to do that? But it's one of two things, man. You've got to get with God. And some people, you know, we don't understand how we can get with a person where bad things have happened.
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