“I would read those articles about the lives of those players and what route that they took to get to their famous lives. I could just see myself, you know, when I would read them, I would read those stories and I would place myself into those stories. Some of the information I took in, it was talking about nutrition and keeping your body clean and staying away from drugs and alcohol and also the willingness to work and get better every day.
Those messages were coming through to me from various different sources, whether it was Look magazine or whether the interviews that I saw on on the tv. And so I just bought into it, Rien. I bought into a hook, line and sinker because this is what I wanted to do. And I believed those guys were telling the truth. That's what I did. And whether or not it was that, or whether it was just sheer luck or it was destiny, I really don't know. All I know is that if it was gonna happen for me, then I wanted to give myself the best chance for it happening. And I didn't want to do things that were going to deter from my opportunities.
If I was given the opportunity in order for me to take advantage of it, I had to put myself in the best position to be able to do so. And that meant doing certain things to give my chance, self the best chance to make it.”
Episode #115 of The Hope Initiative with Walter Abercrombie.
