Sterling Sharpe
👤 PersonAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
My grandfather was very, very hard on my brother.
And I didn't understand why until...
My grandmother said, Barney, why are you so hard on Spanky?
That's what we call him.
He said, Mary, everything that little one is going to learn, he's going to learn it from him.
It's his job because we're not going to be around Mary alone.
It's his job to teach him how to be a man.
It's his job to teach him right from wrong.
He's going to follow everything that he does because that's what he sees all the time.
For my brother to do what he's done with no guidance, with no instruction manual, to get to where he got, to get me to where I got.
You guys have heard me say the only man I've ever wanted to be was him.
He was my hero.
He was my role model.
He taught me to shoot a basketball.
He taught me to throw a football.
He taught me how to catch.
He taught me how to tie my shoes.
I'm not the man that's sitting before you today.
I watched everything that he did.
I hung on everything that he said.