South Beach Sessions - Vince Wilfork
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We've got Miami Hurricane royalty in the house, two-time Super Bowl champion, national champion in college football, five-time Pro Bowler. And I say this as compliment, not insult. Half the man he used to be because Vince Wilfork has slimmed down and gotten healthy. Nice to see you, sir.
It's a pleasure. But the heart's still the same. No matter how much I wear or lose, the heart still stays.
Well, you've always been saluted for your heart. I'm going to read some Belichick quotes to you that are very flattering because he calls you one of the greatest leaders ever. But I told you before we started here, I was hoping to do some of this stuff biographically with you. So when did you know you were going to be a football player? Because I've read that you told your parents very early.
Yeah, around four or five years old, I told my father, like, I want to be an NFL football player, you know.
Yeah.
At a very young age, I understood who I was when it comes down to what I wanted to do. That's what I wanted to do. That's all I wanted to do. That's all I wanted to know about. And my father, he used to coach some football back in the day. You know, I only played one season of, you know, football, and it was flag because of my size and, you know, my age. So, you know, I used to go to practice all the time with my dad and watch him coach. And when they do drills, I'm on the side doing it myself. You know, when it was time for them to condition, I would go on the side and condition with them, you know, and that's how – But with football, and I went all that years, my childhood, I went all those years without playing no football after my first time playing it because either I was too young or I was too big.
It was the weight limit or your age. And I used to miss both of them. So my next time playing football after that was in high school. So between, you know, four and five years old to high school, I played basketball. You know, basketball was my sport, you know, and I was a pretty good basketball player, you know. And when I got to high school, my high school coach, he thought for sure I was going to pick, you know, playing basketball because that's all I did, you know. 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 not as a defensive tackle, right? Nobody wants to be a defensive tackle as a child.
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.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:04–4:32
2
What inspired Vince Wilfork to pursue a career in football?
4:32–10:04
3
What lessons has Vince learned from his football career and personal experiences?
10:04–11:44
4
How did Vince's upbringing influence his leadership style?
11:44–18:37
5
What challenges did Vince face as a defensive tackle in the NFL?
18:37–18:49
6
How did Vince transition from college to professional football?
18:49–19:08
7
What does being called a 'captain of the captains' mean to Vince?
19:08–40:10
8
How did Vince cope with the loss of his parents during college?
40:10–1:10:05
Speakers
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