I AM ATHLETE (S2E3) | What Defines an Athlete Outside of Sports?
I Am Athlete
I AM ATHLETE
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🗓️ 28 September 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The fight to get a meal, yeah, wrongfully accused, we had to fight to get a pill, |
| 0:04.1 | so we right to get a deal. |
| 0:05.6 | He on the team, he got to eat you know, despite the skills facts. |
| 0:08.9 | Keep it riding for the family, you got a light that we're in wheels straight up, |
| 0:12.1 | but in the past bad, work up in the trash bag |
| 0:15.0 | I'll pass a lot to take the test before I pass class |
| 0:18.0 | Yeah, and my family needed bread I had to come correct |
| 0:21.0 | That's why I keep airing it out like I just passed gas. |
| 0:24.0 | I spent three months in the outpatient program at McLean Hospital, Number Two psychiatric |
| 0:28.2 | hospital in the world, and Wahl family Massachusetts, right outside of Boston. |
| 0:34.1 | I don't know if it was, you know, a tough moment for me, |
| 0:37.3 | but it definitely was a defining moment |
| 0:39.2 | because at that juncture of my life. |
| 0:42.8 | I knew if I ain't changed or things ain't changed in my life, |
| 0:46.2 | which in you, I mean I was just, |
| 0:48.0 | I was with the Dolphins my first year in the Dolphins, |
| 0:49.7 | so you knew how that was. |
| 0:51.7 | It was crazy. But I knew like in that moment if things didn't change, |
| 0:57.0 | and I won't go as far as to say, like I didn't have any suicidal thoughts or anything like that. |
| 1:02.0 | But I thought that I could lose my career and that's the thing that's scary. Like if I lose my career then what? You know what I mean? Like as a player, you know growing up like I had this one goal my goal was I make it to the NFL |
| 1:17.0 | That's it like it was no plan B. It was that was it. I was plan A that was B, since I was six years old. |
| 1:23.6 | And this is like vivid, this is a vivid picture in my head. |
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