Honesty, loyalty, friends, and then wealth.
Tulsa, Oklahoma. Gangsters, killers and dope dealers. It’s rough in the ‘hood, man.
How did I make it out? Honestly, man, I think the biggest key in me making it out was my parents. My father was like this: laid-back guy, kind of like I am, doesn’t hardly raise his voice a lot. Didn’t need to, because he wanted to teach me.
He showed me how to be a man. He taught me how to be independent. He taught me how to be strong. Strength and honor, man.
Back home in Tulsa, Oklahoma, it’s straight racist. It’s to the point where certain people don’t want to deal with you. You walk into a store and they look at you and follow you around.
The south side is where the caucasians live. The north side is where the African-Americans reside. I’m trying to raise my ‘hood up. I want my ‘hood to look like their ‘hood. I want to provide jobs for my community like they do there.
I’m building a 40,000-square-foot retail and office center. A strip mall. We’ll probably break ground in May in the ‘hood.
Right now I have a G55 Mercedes-Benz wagon. It’s not pimped out. I had a Hummer that was pimped out, an H1. But I’m from the ‘hood, so I parked it in my sister’s driveway and somebody broke in and stole all my screens in the head rests, PlayStation, amps.
People try to tear you down, but you’ve got to stay strong, man. You’ve got to stay strong. No sign of weakness.
It’s hard for a team to go out and get booed at home.
In football, on the field, off the field, find the problem and you find a solution. We’ll be part of the problem if we point fingers and take shots at the offense.
Don’t get me wrong, everything the media writes is not wrong. But I’d say 99 percent of it is wrong, in my opinion, but I don’t read the newspaper, so I don’t know. I hear things, though.
They’re always criticizing. That talk about how I make too much money. They talk about how I need to be gone after this year. That talk about all that stuff. But you know what? That doesn’t define who I am. My character defines me.
It feels good to do what they don’t expect you to do. It’s almost like a rebirth.
No, I’m not going to say rebirth, because anytime you say “re,” that means you’re starting off again. I’m going to say it’s like you’re throwing it back in their face.
I don’t care if Greg Blache is here or Ron Rivera is here or Tobey Maguire is our defensive coordinator–Cover-1 is Cover-1, Cover-2 is Cover-2, and Cover-3 is Cover-3.
I’ve been a Dallas Cowboys fan all my life, until I got into the league. It was good to have a good performance against them. But I still have to say the greatest moment is when I got drafted. What it does is you cease all non-believers.
You’ve got to use your mind. You’ve got to extend your mind.
The deal with the music is, we made a CD, took a couple samples from a couple of songs. Obviously, you have to get clearance for that. Two things we were lacking: clearance for those songs and distribution. If you don’t have distribution, you don’t have anything.
If they told me to pick one person and you could go do a song with that guy, I would go hip-hop, and I would say Jay-Z or Eminem.
I would do a song with Ron Artest in a hot second. Ron, if you read this, R.W. McQuarters from the Bears, I’ll do a song with you.
