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The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

842 | Inky Johnson: “If You Gotta Do It Anyway, Why Not Be Great at It?”

The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

Sean Croxton

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Business, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Education

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

What do you do when you’re in the midst of adversity? Do you shrink or expand? See it as an excuse for giving up, or a reason to show your true character and keep moving forward? On today’s Motivation Monday episode, Inky Johnson shares how his career-ending injury was an opportunity to show the best version of himself. Source: Inky Johnson With An Uplifting Message To The Minnesota Timberwolves

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0:00.0

Yo today's QOT is if you got to do it anyway, why not be great at it here we go

0:30.0

Welcome back to the Quoted The Day Show I'm your host Sean Crox and a Sean Crox and

0:36.3

calm it's motivation Monday we've got Inky Johnson back on the show and he's

0:41.8

talking about one of those topics we've discussed many times but it deserves

0:45.3

repeating what do you do when life deals you a hand of adversity what do you do

0:54.0

when things go very very very very wrong do you shrink do you expand do you give

1:02.9

up do you make it an excuse to give up to not even try anymore or do you use it

1:08.0

as a reason to show who you really are here's Inky

1:14.0

in a year 2006 you know something happened that ended up being what I

1:19.1

considered a third best thing that's ever happened to me in my life and that

1:23.0

was my career in an injury two minutes left in the game I was just going to

1:26.8

make a tackle routine tackle that was supposed to end the game right and when I

1:31.1

hit the cat two hours later I found myself in the emergency room fighting for

1:35.3

my life I wake up the next morning life hasn't been the same every since

1:39.5

paralyzed right arm in hand and life just was different when my injury happened

1:44.9

I went from under the four three eight bench pressing three hundred and twenty

1:48.4

five pounds to having three hundred and fifty staples in my body and cut twice in

1:52.9

my right ribs cut cross my pack they took out my right pack bottom of my own pit

1:57.5

to the bottom of my hand slash me cost the right side of my neck cost the left

2:00.9

side of my neck I had to grab my father's shoulder learn how to walk again the

2:04.2

same lip service man and they told me Inky going to send you back home to Atlanta

2:09.9

I'm from the city grew up on the east side of this city mother had me at 16 years

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