Vince Wilfork

But I was like, no, I'm going to play football.

And he kind of looked at me, he like –

Listen, you haven't played football since you was four or five years old.

And, you know, all you used to do is play basketball, you know, the tournaments, the AAU.

And he used to watch me play.

He was like, you picking football?

I'm like, yeah, that's what I want to do.

But, you know, my father was a great high school football player.

Like he was, you know, he was known around town as the –

could have been one of those ones to make it you know but some other stuff happened in his life and what was more important to him at that time was you know starting a family so he chose family over football so i think i've always you know lived my dream through my father so every time he got a chance before he passed away um to see me play that was always a blessing and i always wanted to make my father proud you know and i and i knew but

me and my father connection was sports and everything else.

But yeah, sports was like, yeah, you know, uh, even my brother, you know, we, my father was this, this sports guy and we watched every sport, you name it.

We watched it.

It didn't matter, you know?

Um, and that's where I kind of get all my grit from my grind from, uh, understanding how to be a professional, understanding how to play the game, how to respect the game, uh, how to respect people, you know, because my father taught me all that.

And I used to watch my father, how he communicate, uh,

with his friends while he was coaching and the players as he was coaching, just how he communicated and interacted with them.

And so I kind of took all of that from my father and said, hey, I want to mold myself.

I'm a football player.

That's what I want to be.