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The Playbook With David Meltzer

Steven Jackson - Former NFL Running Back, Rams all-time leading rusher

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of #ThePlaybook, Steven Jackson, 12-year NFL veteran, Rams all-time leading rusher, and the host of Legends Podcast sits down to chat about: [2:30] - Why his mental approach to running the ball in the NFL led to great success [5:38] - Two players with the most swag in NFL history [6:18] - The desire, dedication, and determination needed to thrive as a professional athlete [15:12] - How a “miserable” experience in 2nd grade helped to shape his future Memorable Quote “You have to find the purpose that’s bigger than you. Desire, dedication, and determination… I had to check those boxes each and every day. Why am I here? Why am I showing up? What am I determined to achieve later on? Those things kept me going.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

this is the playbook oh yeah we're here in the lobby of the win hotel with blue

0:10.1

wire studios is Dave Meltzer with entrepreneurs of playbook and I have one of

0:14.5

my favorite running backs of all time and that's a big deal coming from me

0:18.4

because I've been around all of them but what's great about Steven Jackson is

0:22.4

most people don't know this about you that you're the all-time Russia for the

0:27.7

Rams and let me tell you why I'm gonna start with the story we were talking about

0:30.9

the first game at the Coliseum and when the Rams came back to Los Angeles is

0:35.3

about a hundred degrees that day and my son is a huge Rams fan and he was a

0:40.1

huge Todd Gurley fan at the time and business partners with Warren Moon so

0:44.7

when Warren's on the field with me he could pull Philip Rivers from center

0:48.1

during war war right like Phil and so my son's used to that kind of

0:51.4

treatment I brought him and his son which was almost in pop him and his best

0:55.1

friend almost impossible get the field passes for these two little kids he's

0:59.0

like six his friends seven and they want to meet Todd Gurley and he's warming up

1:03.2

for the very first game and he had once nothing to do with Dave Meltzer all I

1:07.7

got was like you know the head shake like I recognize you man but there's no way

1:11.3

I'm coming to meet your kids right now and my kids thought I was the biggest

1:14.9

loser in the world and they're so bummed and up from behind me big hug one of

1:21.6

my great friends Eric Dickerson and I tell my son and his friend hey man this

1:25.9

is the greatest Rams running back of all time maybe in the league and this is

1:32.5

Eric Dickerson I said he's better than Todd Gurley and my son says no he's not

1:36.5

and Eric Dickerson says he's right I'm a what he goes Steven Jackson is the

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