When pain and talent mix together, that’s when you’re able to persevere in your goals in life; the pain gives your talent something to feed into.
If you want to be great, you have to be a leader. You’ve got to listen to me, son. That’s what we brought you here to do, to be a leader. And you can do it.
I remember Peyton [Manning] called me as soon as I got out to Denver. He started the conversation by asking me, ‘When did you get in?’ We mainly just talked to get familiar with each other.
My grandmother said, ‘It doesn’t really matter where you had to go, where you got the ring, or where you played the Super Bowl, all that matters is that you put in the work, you deserved it, and you earned it.
Making it to the Super Bowl is something few and far between. Many football players never get the opportunity to make it that far.
You can be a natural athlete with terrible work habits, and that ends up wasting your gifts.