You're listening to be, not insult.

Half the man he used to be because Vince Wilfork has slimmed down and gotten healthy.

Nice to see you, sir.

It's a pleasure, but the heart still the same, no matter how much I will lose, the heart still stays.

Well, you've always been saluted for your heart.

I'm going to read some Belichick quotes to you that are very flattering because he calls you one of the greatest leaders ever. But I told you before we started here, I was hoping to do some of this stuff biographically with you. So when did you know you were going to be a football player? Because I've read that you told your parents very early. Yeah, like around four or five years old, I told my father, like, I want to be an NFL football player.

You know, at a very young age, I understood who I was when it comes down to me and, you know, what I wanted to do.

That's what I wanted to do.

That's all I wanted to do.

That's all I wanted to know about.

And my father, he used to coach some football back in the day. So, you know, I only play one season of, you know, football. And it was flag because of my size and my, you know, my age. So, you know, I used to go to practice all the time with my dad and watch him coach. And when they do drills, I'm on a side doing it myself. You know, when it was time for them to condition, I would go on the side and condition with them, you know, and that's how, you know, I kept up with football. And I went all that years, my childhood, I went all those years without playing no football after my first time playing it because either I was too young or I was too big. It was the weight limit or, you know, your age. And I used to miss both of them. So my next

time playing football after that was in high school. So between, you know, four and five years old

till high school, I played basketball. You know, basketball was my sport, you know, and I was a pretty

good basketball player, you know, and I was a pretty good basketball

player, you know, and when I got to high school, my high school coach, he thought for sure I was

going to pick, you know, playing basketball because that's all I did, you know. But I was like,

no, I don't play football. He kind of looked at me. He was like, listen, you haven't played football

since you was four or five years old, and, you know, all you used to do is play basketball, you know, the tournaments, the AAU. And he used to watch me play. He was like, you pick a football. I'm like, yeah, that's what I want to do. But not as a defensive tackle, right? Nobody wants to be a defensive tackle as a child. But, you know, my father and my father was a great high school football player Like, he was, you know, he was known around town as, um, could have been one of those ones to make it, you know, but some other stuff happened in his life and what was more important to him at that time was, you know, starting a family. So he chose family over football. So I think I've always, you know, live my dream through my father. So every time he got a

chance before he passed away to see me play, that was always a blessing. And I always wanted to make

my father proud, you know, and I, and I knew me and my father connection was sports. And everything else,

but yeah, sports was like, yeah, you know, even my brother, you know, we, my father was

this sports guy and we watched every sport, you name it, we watched it.

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