If you don't get strong enough to possess your own belief, your environment will change you before you change it.

And that is the quote of the day.

Welcome back to the quote of the day show. I'm your host Sean Crox and a Sean Crox and dot com. I hope you had an incredible weekend. You're ready to rock this week because it's Monday.

That means it's time for some of that Monday motivation a couple of weeks ago.

We had Inky Johnson on the show for the first time and the feedback was awesome. You said you wanted more. So today I'm giving you more. So Inky is sharing another inspiring story from his life. Before we get to Inky though, I have an assignment for you.

One time this week show somebody how much you believe in them because it's Inky's about to talk about sometimes when we don't believe in ourselves, we have to rent that belief. We have to rent that motivation from somebody else.

We have to rent that fuel. So this week make the choice make the decision to be the fuel for someone else because not only does it change your life, but it changed somebody else's life as well. Here's Inky.

But what happened at the ripe age of seven years old. I experienced a lot of different situations and circumstances. Right. And I just had this crazy thought that man, if I could just make it to the NFL, all of my family's problems.

Everything that we're facing would somehow disappear. If I could just make it to the NFL, like I can contribute to my community, I can help people, like I can do all of the things that I want to do. If I just accomplish this dream, every bit of pain that I experience, it will be all worth it.

I still remember when me and my three younger cousins, we were going to the cafeteria for breakfast every other morning and we had a cafeteria administrator, a guy by the name of Mr. Dupes.

And as soon as we were at the cafeteria, my three little cousins, they all swept to the front of the line, pushed us ever in front of the line, out of line, and they were trying to eat and the same thing would happen.

Johnson Boyz hit the wall. And he would put us on the wall. He would say, Inky, you're the oldest. Why do you let them do this? And I would be too embarrassed to tell him that we didn't eat the night before.

And so I would just stand back on the wall and I would be quiet. But one morning he pushed it a little bit too far. Johnson Boyz, get on the wall. We go to the wall.

Inky, you're the oldest. Why do you let them do this? I'm getting sick and tired of it. And I responded to him. I said, we didn't eat last night. He said, oh, I didn't know I said you didn't ask.

Because most people, even when they ask a question, they're asking with the intent to reply and not the intent to understand.

And when it happened, what happened to me was, I said, man, if I could just make it to college, nobody in my family has been to college. I could break a generational curse and I could show the people in my community a different way.

But man, if I make it to the NFL, I can help my mother in ways that I've never imagined. I can help my grandmother in ways that I've never imagined.

And every day we would walk out of that door, I would always trail my cousins and my grandmother would say to me, inquiry is. That's my real name.

Inquiry is not Inky. My grandfather gave me Inky because he had a problem with pronouncing inquiry is. And my grandmother would say to me, inquiry is, I would say, yes, ma'am, she would say learn from the mistakes of other people. You can't make them all yourself.

And in my community, we had a drug dealer on every single corner. Most of them came from my household. And one night we were playing tackle football in the street before I got an organized sports. And one night the summer was going down. I just told the coaches this story because of the impact that it made in my life.

And a blue pickup truck was coming down the street and we back out of the street and let the car go by. And as the car was going by, it slightly went past us and it parked on the sidewalk.

And out of the truck gets a white guy. And at the time of my neighborhood, there were no white people. And so automatically, what do you think everybody did? They started running. They think he's a police off the bat. Right. He's a cop. They take off running. Right.

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