no one will outwork me no one I love and
I respect you guys motherfuckers will
that work me really the two things I
want to say are got to be the hardest
workers in the room and don’t fuck the
opportunity out instead of telling you
what I think you should be doing or what
how you could be better or I thought
well let me just speak from the heart
speak from my gut and really not have
anything prepared but just tell you
what’s worked for me and maybe some of
the stuff that’s work for me might work
for you now currently presently as you
guys have your goals and ambitions and
be a championship MVPs in this room
things like that but then further on
down the line as you guys continue to
live your life the first thing I would
just want to say is this idea and this
notion that you could be anything you
want and you can accomplish anything you
want right we hear that you’ve heard
that from the time you were little boys
you hear that now you’re already
incredibly accomplished you can win an
NBA championship MVP of the league you
could become president you could become
governor you can have you could be in in
in in you could be an entertainment you
could do Charles and you do Shaq you do
that you could do whatever you want to
do you guys know that the thing that has
worked for me is to remember
the hard times so and I’m sure you guys
all have your processes and again I’m
gonna tell you what worked for me so
before a big movie comes out before back
in the days when I was wrestling with
WWE a WrestleMania match anything big
that would happen I would always take a
moment and I just remind myself all
right I was evicted when I was 14 we
were kicked off the island we couldn’t
live in Hawaii had no place to live a
lot of shit happened then when I moved
to Nashville I was arrested multiple
times by the time I was 16 years old I
got remember that if I were playing on
this team which might you know my skills
are what’s that term oh the shit’s so I
never play but before I lace up before I
get on the court before I playing these
big games before I go to the Staples
Center where history says those are
those are historic we’ll all sit here at
the Staples Center I would remember that
and it allows me then to be present in
the moment and understand holy shit
that’s the stuff I have around me right
now this is the shit that I dreamed of
when I was a kid I am here I played for
University of Miami played great teams
Warren Sapp Ray Lewis they were my
teammates they were ballin
Warren Sapp was playing tight end at
that time I was starting defensive
tackle yeah they moved him over to D
line and he looked at me he’s like yo do
I’m gonna take your spot and I said you
ain’t taking my father’s mine he’s gonna
take your spot yeah we battled and he
took my spot they could imagine how that
fucked with me cuz there goes my
opportunity he went in switch to
defensive tackle lit the world on fire
well what that did it questioned me too
crushed my dreams I had a piss-poor
senior year zero production no NFL no
combine invite nothing finally went to
the CFL Calgary Stampeders making $250 a
week Canadian Canadian I had to send
that shit home to my to my wife at that
time
I had no money so I remember that when I
got cut from Canada I had 7 bucks in my
pocket
and I always tell that story so now my
production company 7 bucks
advertising agency 7 bucks everything is
7 bucks so always remember that what
helps me is to keep the hard times in
the front of my mind because it allows
me to go into these big moments that
I’ve worked my ass off and you guys have
worked your ass off it allows me to go
into these big moments with a different
perspective what it also does for me and
again this just this is what works for
me like I keep my back excuse my
language my back is up against this
motherfucker every day it’s against the
fucking wall
excuse my language syndrome
but it’s a begins this motherfucker
because it’s what I believe in and when
my back is against this motherfucker
then there’s nowhere to go but that way
that’s it so I feel like this could be
something an ideology mindset that could
help you could if you look at it that
way because you made it already we made
it we’re successful boys and we’re lucky
boys to be we’re at oh you guys made it
everybody’s rich in the room nobody’s
gonna get evicted anymore
anything you got there’s no more money
problems right you got a lot of hands
out now I get a little bit can I get a
little bit right that happens but when
you make it for me
I need this I need this so every day my
back is up against this motherfucker and
this is how I operate now doesn’t mean
you don’t smile there’s me don’t laugh
and joke
right you’re happy I’m happy I’m a happy
guy but when it comes to business and
when it comes to executing it’s up
against this and I got to go that way
and I don’t give a fuck who is in front
of me they’re not gonna stop me I feel
like for me it feels seamless because
you’re prepared for so long but it’s
just like you guys prepping for a game
that’s the fun part that’s where it’s
like fuck is fun and people are paying
their hard-earned dollars to come see
you they’re cheering they’re going
bananas they’re booing the shit out of
you or on the road it’s that’s fun
that’s what you live for I mean that’s
the juice right there the prep is where
the characters made and I just don’t
mean the character I play I mean the
fucking the character in here so for me
the prep is getting with the director
getting with the producers getting with
the writers getting with the getting
with the so in essence it’s like getting
with all your coaches and your different
position coaches and and all the
meetings that you have to have right so
that’s the work you put in the key for
me was where does it start
what’s the anchor what’s the anchor so I
could have all these ambitions and you
guys have all these ambitions which is
great
it’s important I’ll play this role
you’ll play that role I’ll execute this
thing and it’ll come out this summer
you guys will execute this thing during
the summer right what it’s time to
really put in a lot more work but the
key with me is just always finding what
the anchor is and the fuck and anchor is
getting up at 4 o’clock in the morning
every day before anybody else and
grounding my thought process is in the
no one will outwork me no one I love and
I respect you guys motherfuckers will
that work me I’ll start with this two
hands putting it’ll work the anchor for
me has always been the work in terms of
the weight room training so when I first
started wrestling I was six years old
rolling on the mats with my dad my old
man a lot of you guys will know this
yeah Rocky Johnson
my old man was Rocky Johnson he was the
first black WWF tag WWWF at that time
first black WWE tag team champions with
Tony Atlas back in 1983 my uncles were
the wild Samoans I come from a long line
of pro wrestlers but before the
wrestling part happened I was just in
the gym putting in the work at six years
old rolling around on the mats and
finally when I could touch weights at 13
that’s what I was doing but the weight
part for me and the gym part has has
always been has to be the anchor for me
because again it allows me what’s that
yeah yeah it allows me to keep
everything grounded but then also you
know look I think – whoo yeah is it
crazy that’s who I am
Juden uh I went to Gunners gym one time
we first moved to LA about a year ago
man he is that come here DJ look at this
thing he picked this thing up and I was
like content man what and there’s pulley
here and the thing coming out of the
fucking garage there that feels good
right
guy can’t yes it feels good I can’t I
can’t look boys event your bodies your
body right you’re young now your ball
and everything feels good you have your
little Nicks and dings and all shit
you’re gonna have that you’re gonna have
your surgeries we all have it but if but
eventually and I promise you this the
one thing that will never ever ever go
away is you get your ass in that weight
room and you put in the work that’s
gonna happen when you’re 30 40 50 60
said that never goes away you’ll get on
the court you shoot some shots but you
still you’re gonna wind up right back in
the weight room right right back in your
spot film has the gives me the biggest
opportunity to make the biggest impact
global impact I don’t want to make small
movies I love and respect our movie
business but I want to make big movies
that do well and when they do well it’s
not the money thing because we have
money right money’s good money’s good
it ebbs and flows it’s the idea that I
can impact as many people as possible
with a big global movie and when the
global movie is touching a billion
dollars that sounds good right it’s good
for the bank accounts good for everybody
involved everybody’s getting their piece
of cake it’s great but what that does do
it I know I’m impacting people around
the world by giving them some good
entertainment making them feel good
leaving the theater floating so it’s the
same thing right when you guys have this
bigger goal so for example when you
become world champions again as
polarized as a sports world is it’s a
fucking incredibly inspiring thing even
if they’re not fans of your team even if
they’re not fans you to so think about
that you know when you guys do that the
impact that that has the ripple effect
that that has for the city of LA
California the United States the globe
little kids
that one day favorite WWE moment will
probably be I’ve had a lot of them and
got really really lucky I think probably
the matches I had was Stone Cold Steve
Austin yeah they were really good and we
wound up we just had a real special
chemistry and anytime we got in the ring
it was it created this kind of magic and
we broke a lot of Records and
pay-per-view records at that time WWE
they were still in the pay-per-view
model and the pay-per-view business
they’re not now but that was always cool
because we had a goals even I had a goal
which was let’s let’s uh let’s sell out
of Stadium and let’s break a
pay-per-view record but it was always
cool with him because then always too
you know he was the kind of guy who and
you guys have this you have this amongst
your team you have this amongst players
in the league with that guy
former Texas football player West Texas
stayed down so he was crazy but he would
push me and we will push each other
every night you know and the thing that
the WWE taught me which I think you guys
can take away and it can apply to a
little bit of your practice in your
business and your game play is WWE
taught me to always listen to the people
you always want to listen to the people
so when I would go out you know look you
go out there’s always a lot of ego and
you’re you know I want to do my shit and
then another wrestlers their honor do my
shit I want to do my finishing move let
me do mine finish move I got to look
good I got to do all this my last match
in WWE I’ll share this with you guys to
is that again cuz there’s a little bit
of takeaway here from all this shit is I
wrestled John Cena and I went in and I
think it’s 2013 I went in WWE Champion
and we went in that Life Stadium we we
had a record-breaking attendance which
was amazing that night we accomplished
our goal so I rested with John Cena and
we had 45 minutes plan for the match
it’s nonstop and go right so your
conditioning is tested and at that time
I wasn’t full-time in WWE I was just
doing these spot matches where I would I
was still shooting GI Joe I think our
pain and gain at that time
all right oh no it was uh it was fast
inferior six in London had to travel in
the ring get all my ring work in travel
back to shoot fast and furious then back
WWE Raw doing those shows the big
build-up to WrestleMania against John we
get to MetLife Stadium it’s a big night
this is its game night right it’s its
championship night for me 45 minute
match planned out there’s no cut
there’s no all right well let’s pick
back up tomorrow you know it’s go time
it’s just like you guys in a game at the
15-minute mark bang boom laying there
and both of us are out I said off Fox I
was going on and I stick my head now
it’s 85,000 people right and we just
laid out like this I kind of roll over I
stick my hand down in my trunk just to
see I want to make sure that there was
no bone sticking out so if there’s no
bone sticking out what the fuck’s up
just happened referee comes over and
he’s like rocky alright yeah yeah yeah I
think I’m alright I said fuck I get up I
go to step and I can’t stop I can’t do
this I have to use my leg like momentum
got do that so now in that moment and
you guys are gonna have these moments
you probably already had them already
where you’re in the game and you’re in
the thick of things and you got to make
a decision well I got to do I’m gonna
stay in the game committed to the team I
committed to my team the entire roster
right and in the world of wrestling when
you have a big show like this and you
have a big main event that the entire
show is based around the wrestlers will
come up to the two people in the main
event at some point all throughout the
night in the locker room and just like
hey thank you for the house I appreciate
it thank you for the house and what that
means is that’s a way of saying thank
you for drawing helping draw eighty five
thousand people and putting a lot of
fucking money in my paycheck in my bank
account
thank you for the house we got a lot of
thank you for the houses that night bang
this happens and now I realize I can’t
move my leg I got 30 min
it’s left of this match and it’s not
just like fucking around I mean these
are like we got to put on a show there’s
a lot of big flying and suplexes all
that so I could tell the rest is are you
okay and I have one moment in this
moment it was a defining moment I could
either tell him no I’m done he give the
signal matches over or let’s keep going
and again this is a little takeaway for
you guys if you ever have this moment
I’m sure you have if you haven’t it’s
coming we have this decision
I said no let’s keep going I said how
much time is up he’s like 32 minutes
okay rest of the whole match couldn’t
move doing everything like this I’m
getting scared because I’m thinking man
well what happens if I if I if I pinch
something or something like you know I
don’t know your mind starts fucking with
you in the moment there’s 85,000 people
your Adrenaline’s rushing thinking man
what happens we’re gonna lose my leg or
some shit like this if I’ve just done
something to my artery final move of the
match is his big finishing move and I
remember I’m getting up and I’m turning
like this because I have to fall into
him he’s gonna hit me with his big
finisher it’s like a massive suplex
where I go over his head and fuck it and
slams me down and I remember turning I
remember turning into John and he says
and I remember thinking myself god
please don’t let this be too bad just
take care of me take care of me bang I
feel boom
I don’t know what the fuck just happened
and now luckily matches overheat pins
but when she comes in the back get to
the back I can’t move now getting a
little nervous and doctors come in John
comes in you okay he comes in where was
like to celebrate with booze he brings
like moonshine like legit moonshine
that’s like crazy white boy shit that
they bring like in a jar
this is moonshot hid let’s have some
more chances okay don’t know what’s
happening rush get on a jet rushed home
to my doctor’s down in Florida and get
an MRI find out that I have completely
torn my adductor the top of my my a
doctor and my top of my quad off my
pelvis yes really really fucked up so
it’s a very long story to tell you what
I was proud of was to walk out on my own
but not only that but in this fucking
moment where the odds are against you
people are watching teams depending on
you you either say I’m done or this shit
whatever the fuck is going on
it’s temporary and it made fuck me up at
some point down the road look at the end
of the day like again that’s it’s the
kind of stuff that I talked about at top
is I have to hold on to my dad in his
pickup truck came down four o’clock in
the morning picked me up at in whoo in
Miami from Tampa we lived in a little
shitty apartment in Tampa he drove down
and his little pickup truck
to Miami to get me when I was cut from
the CFL I was driving up I 75 I don’t
know if you guys are from Florida any of
you guys if you know it’s i-75 is like
especially down in Florida Alligator
Alley I’ll never forget it’s four
o’clock in the morning and I thought
well fuck that I leave home like you
guys left home I’m ready to tackle the
world to get after it
achieve my dreams and goals fucking
crushed by 22 23 years old I’m now I got
to move back in with my mom and dad I
played on great teams oh wait a second
this is not supposed to be my future I’m
supposed to be in the NFL right now I’m
supposed to be making a lot of coin and
buy my parents
it buying me shit taking care of my wife
but it never happened so I pulled in my
wallet I thought well let me see how
much money I have I opened it up I had a
5 a 1 and change I’m not fucking around
and and I said well at least I rounded
up to 7 bucks but I thought god this is
a bitch I got seven bucks in my pocket
where the fuck do I go now
what’d I do I can’t go back to CFL
because I are you know the point comes
where you hear that voice big runs over
like you’re done right so I heard that
voice so as coach was saying man I hold
on to that shit I’m telling you I keep
my back up against this motherfucker
we laugh we joke we have a good time
press is always fun to do sometime you
got to make it fun that’s another thing
he had to do your best to make press fun
if you can but my back is still up
against this motherfucker I do not
forget it
so coach was saying like you’re gonna go
in through challenging times as a team
you guys are on the come-up you’re on
the rise what this also helps me do and
again if it works for me is at some
point you got to be fucking tired of not
being number one you have to be and you
got to fucking play angry and I play
angry now I’m cool and calm with my
approach and when I step out on my field
which is a set or you know like there’s
something you’re always gonna have
haters and haters like we’ll see a man
how many movies you’re gonna make her
how much shit are you gonna do like you
do a lot of shit I say yes cuz my
ambition of course why not I could do it
yeah I love what I do and not only that
but in what world do we not work every
day it doesn’t mean it’s just like you
guys in the offseason
you got work every fucking day it
doesn’t end my back is a begins this
thing you know and I and I and I started
to play angry by the way and and I still
I still play angry my last match Brock
lesner
transitioned and I realized if I had to
be great at something I wanted to be
great in this world of Hollywood and
moviemaking and producing and
entertainment I had to commit and like
you guys have to commit obviously you
commit to something commit to the goal
so I quietly retired two years later I
thought what the fuck did I do in my
career cuz my movies were not doing well
I was written off it was like he’s
around 2006 2007 I was like goddamn I
left I pulled a Jim Brown I left when I
was on top like number one in the
wrestling business and I left it was a
ballsy gutsy some call it stupid move
but I had to commit and I had to follow
it was in my god and at that time I’ll
share this with you guys and Will Smith
is my boy and I sat down at that time
with the agency I was with I said what
do you want to accomplish I said I want
to accomplish the world I want the world
and I want I want Will Smith’s career
but and I said and I mean this
respectfully because I know he’s here at
this agency with us I want to do it
bigger and better and they looked at me
like I had three fucking heads and they
were like mm-hmm
okay but I still stayed focused and I
still had these still put in the hard
work with my two hands and that’s it and
that’s what it comes down to with you
guys to you know look I I appreciate you
guys giving me the time I enjoyed this
back-and-forth wrapping a little bit but
the one thing I do want to leave you
with is as you guys know there’s nothing
you can’t accomplish you’re gonna go on
you’re gonna become world champions the
key for me what I think one of the keys
is remember where you came from keep
that shit in the front of your mind and
when shit goes bad it goes sideways a
lot of shit does you’re getting booed
out of the fucking building or coming
through this injury or people are you
writing you off all you guys gonna
fucking make it you know any of that
shit you got it you got to keep it in
here the and it really has to it should
drive you it should it works for me it
should drive you you get all the talent
in the world it’s all here
it’s all here everybody’s next best
thing everybody’s the thing everybody’s
the best it’s all here but goddamn I
want to do better I’d want to do better
how that is because they even said to me
well how do you do it better than him
this was in 2006 I said I don’t know but
I do believe there’s a better way to do
it in a different way to do it maybe
it’s through social media connectivity
global I don’t know let me understand the market all that and Here I am
I respect you guys motherfuckers will
that work me really the two things I
want to say are got to be the hardest
workers in the room and don’t fuck the
opportunity out instead of telling you
what I think you should be doing or what
how you could be better or I thought
well let me just speak from the heart
speak from my gut and really not have
anything prepared but just tell you
what’s worked for me and maybe some of
the stuff that’s work for me might work
for you now currently presently as you
guys have your goals and ambitions and
be a championship MVPs in this room
things like that but then further on
down the line as you guys continue to
live your life the first thing I would
just want to say is this idea and this
notion that you could be anything you
want and you can accomplish anything you
want right we hear that you’ve heard
that from the time you were little boys
you hear that now you’re already
incredibly accomplished you can win an
NBA championship MVP of the league you
could become president you could become
governor you can have you could be in in
in in you could be an entertainment you
could do Charles and you do Shaq you do
that you could do whatever you want to
do you guys know that the thing that has
worked for me is to remember
the hard times so and I’m sure you guys
all have your processes and again I’m
gonna tell you what worked for me so
before a big movie comes out before back
in the days when I was wrestling with
WWE a WrestleMania match anything big
that would happen I would always take a
moment and I just remind myself all
right I was evicted when I was 14 we
were kicked off the island we couldn’t
live in Hawaii had no place to live a
lot of shit happened then when I moved
to Nashville I was arrested multiple
times by the time I was 16 years old I
got remember that if I were playing on
this team which might you know my skills
are what’s that term oh the shit’s so I
never play but before I lace up before I
get on the court before I playing these
big games before I go to the Staples
Center where history says those are
those are historic we’ll all sit here at
the Staples Center I would remember that
and it allows me then to be present in
the moment and understand holy shit
that’s the stuff I have around me right
now this is the shit that I dreamed of
when I was a kid I am here I played for
University of Miami played great teams
Warren Sapp Ray Lewis they were my
teammates they were ballin
Warren Sapp was playing tight end at
that time I was starting defensive
tackle yeah they moved him over to D
line and he looked at me he’s like yo do
I’m gonna take your spot and I said you
ain’t taking my father’s mine he’s gonna
take your spot yeah we battled and he
took my spot they could imagine how that
fucked with me cuz there goes my
opportunity he went in switch to
defensive tackle lit the world on fire
well what that did it questioned me too
crushed my dreams I had a piss-poor
senior year zero production no NFL no
combine invite nothing finally went to
the CFL Calgary Stampeders making $250 a
week Canadian Canadian I had to send
that shit home to my to my wife at that
time
I had no money so I remember that when I
got cut from Canada I had 7 bucks in my
and I always tell that story so now my
production company 7 bucks
advertising agency 7 bucks everything is
7 bucks so always remember that what
helps me is to keep the hard times in
the front of my mind because it allows
me to go into these big moments that
I’ve worked my ass off and you guys have
worked your ass off it allows me to go
into these big moments with a different
perspective what it also does for me and
again this just this is what works for
me like I keep my back excuse my
language my back is up against this
motherfucker every day it’s against the
fucking wall
excuse my language syndrome
but it’s a begins this motherfucker
because it’s what I believe in and when
my back is against this motherfucker
then there’s nowhere to go but that way
that’s it so I feel like this could be
something an ideology mindset that could
help you could if you look at it that
way because you made it already we made
it we’re successful boys and we’re lucky
boys to be we’re at oh you guys made it
everybody’s rich in the room nobody’s
gonna get evicted anymore
anything you got there’s no more money
problems right you got a lot of hands
out now I get a little bit can I get a
little bit right that happens but when
you make it for me
I need this I need this so every day my
back is up against this motherfucker and
this is how I operate now doesn’t mean
you don’t smile there’s me don’t laugh
and joke
right you’re happy I’m happy I’m a happy
guy but when it comes to business and
when it comes to executing it’s up
against this and I got to go that way
and I don’t give a fuck who is in front
of me they’re not gonna stop me I feel
like for me it feels seamless because
you’re prepared for so long but it’s
just like you guys prepping for a game
that’s the fun part that’s where it’s
like fuck is fun and people are paying
their hard-earned dollars to come see
you they’re cheering they’re going
bananas they’re booing the shit out of
you or on the road it’s that’s fun
that’s what you live for I mean that’s
the juice right there the prep is where
the characters made and I just don’t
mean the character I play I mean the
fucking the character in here so for me
the prep is getting with the director
getting with the producers getting with
the writers getting with the getting
with the so in essence it’s like getting
with all your coaches and your different
position coaches and and all the
meetings that you have to have right so
that’s the work you put in the key for
me was where does it start
what’s the anchor what’s the anchor so I
could have all these ambitions and you
guys have all these ambitions which is
great
it’s important I’ll play this role
you’ll play that role I’ll execute this
thing and it’ll come out this summer
you guys will execute this thing during
the summer right what it’s time to
really put in a lot more work but the
key with me is just always finding what
the anchor is and the fuck and anchor is
getting up at 4 o’clock in the morning
every day before anybody else and
grounding my thought process is in the
no one will outwork me no one I love and
I respect you guys motherfuckers will
that work me I’ll start with this two
hands putting it’ll work the anchor for
me has always been the work in terms of
the weight room training so when I first
started wrestling I was six years old
rolling on the mats with my dad my old
man a lot of you guys will know this
yeah Rocky Johnson
my old man was Rocky Johnson he was the
first black WWF tag WWWF at that time
first black WWE tag team champions with
Tony Atlas back in 1983 my uncles were
the wild Samoans I come from a long line
of pro wrestlers but before the
wrestling part happened I was just in
the gym putting in the work at six years
old rolling around on the mats and
finally when I could touch weights at 13
that’s what I was doing but the weight
part for me and the gym part has has
always been has to be the anchor for me
because again it allows me what’s that
yeah yeah it allows me to keep
everything grounded but then also you
know look I think – whoo yeah is it
crazy that’s who I am
Juden uh I went to Gunners gym one time
we first moved to LA about a year ago
man he is that come here DJ look at this
thing he picked this thing up and I was
like content man what and there’s pulley
here and the thing coming out of the
fucking garage there that feels good
right
guy can’t yes it feels good I can’t I
can’t look boys event your bodies your
body right you’re young now your ball
and everything feels good you have your
little Nicks and dings and all shit
you’re gonna have that you’re gonna have
your surgeries we all have it but if but
eventually and I promise you this the
one thing that will never ever ever go
away is you get your ass in that weight
room and you put in the work that’s
gonna happen when you’re 30 40 50 60
said that never goes away you’ll get on
the court you shoot some shots but you
still you’re gonna wind up right back in
the weight room right right back in your
spot film has the gives me the biggest
opportunity to make the biggest impact
global impact I don’t want to make small
movies I love and respect our movie
business but I want to make big movies
that do well and when they do well it’s
not the money thing because we have
money right money’s good money’s good
it ebbs and flows it’s the idea that I
can impact as many people as possible
with a big global movie and when the
global movie is touching a billion
dollars that sounds good right it’s good
for the bank accounts good for everybody
involved everybody’s getting their piece
of cake it’s great but what that does do
it I know I’m impacting people around
the world by giving them some good
entertainment making them feel good
leaving the theater floating so it’s the
same thing right when you guys have this
bigger goal so for example when you
become world champions again as
polarized as a sports world is it’s a
fucking incredibly inspiring thing even
if they’re not fans of your team even if
they’re not fans you to so think about
that you know when you guys do that the
impact that that has the ripple effect
that that has for the city of LA
California the United States the globe
little kids
that one day favorite WWE moment will
probably be I’ve had a lot of them and
got really really lucky I think probably
the matches I had was Stone Cold Steve
Austin yeah they were really good and we
wound up we just had a real special
chemistry and anytime we got in the ring
it was it created this kind of magic and
we broke a lot of Records and
pay-per-view records at that time WWE
they were still in the pay-per-view
model and the pay-per-view business
they’re not now but that was always cool
because we had a goals even I had a goal
which was let’s let’s uh let’s sell out
of Stadium and let’s break a
pay-per-view record but it was always
cool with him because then always too
you know he was the kind of guy who and
you guys have this you have this amongst
your team you have this amongst players
in the league with that guy
former Texas football player West Texas
stayed down so he was crazy but he would
push me and we will push each other
every night you know and the thing that
the WWE taught me which I think you guys
can take away and it can apply to a
little bit of your practice in your
business and your game play is WWE
taught me to always listen to the people
you always want to listen to the people
so when I would go out you know look you
go out there’s always a lot of ego and
you’re you know I want to do my shit and
then another wrestlers their honor do my
shit I want to do my finishing move let
me do mine finish move I got to look
good I got to do all this my last match
in WWE I’ll share this with you guys to
is that again cuz there’s a little bit
of takeaway here from all this shit is I
wrestled John Cena and I went in and I
think it’s 2013 I went in WWE Champion
and we went in that Life Stadium we we
had a record-breaking attendance which
was amazing that night we accomplished
our goal so I rested with John Cena and
we had 45 minutes plan for the match
it’s nonstop and go right so your
conditioning is tested and at that time
I wasn’t full-time in WWE I was just
doing these spot matches where I would I
was still shooting GI Joe I think our
pain and gain at that time
all right oh no it was uh it was fast
inferior six in London had to travel in
the ring get all my ring work in travel
back to shoot fast and furious then back
WWE Raw doing those shows the big
build-up to WrestleMania against John we
get to MetLife Stadium it’s a big night
this is its game night right it’s its
championship night for me 45 minute
match planned out there’s no cut
there’s no all right well let’s pick
back up tomorrow you know it’s go time
it’s just like you guys in a game at the
15-minute mark bang boom laying there
and both of us are out I said off Fox I
was going on and I stick my head now
it’s 85,000 people right and we just
laid out like this I kind of roll over I
stick my hand down in my trunk just to
see I want to make sure that there was
no bone sticking out so if there’s no
bone sticking out what the fuck’s up
just happened referee comes over and
he’s like rocky alright yeah yeah yeah I
think I’m alright I said fuck I get up I
go to step and I can’t stop I can’t do
this I have to use my leg like momentum
got do that so now in that moment and
you guys are gonna have these moments
you probably already had them already
where you’re in the game and you’re in
the thick of things and you got to make
a decision well I got to do I’m gonna
stay in the game committed to the team I
committed to my team the entire roster
right and in the world of wrestling when
you have a big show like this and you
have a big main event that the entire
show is based around the wrestlers will
come up to the two people in the main
event at some point all throughout the
night in the locker room and just like
hey thank you for the house I appreciate
it thank you for the house and what that
means is that’s a way of saying thank
you for drawing helping draw eighty five
thousand people and putting a lot of
fucking money in my paycheck in my bank
account
thank you for the house we got a lot of
thank you for the houses that night bang
this happens and now I realize I can’t
move my leg I got 30 min
it’s left of this match and it’s not
just like fucking around I mean these
are like we got to put on a show there’s
a lot of big flying and suplexes all
that so I could tell the rest is are you
okay and I have one moment in this
moment it was a defining moment I could
either tell him no I’m done he give the
signal matches over or let’s keep going
and again this is a little takeaway for
you guys if you ever have this moment
I’m sure you have if you haven’t it’s
coming we have this decision
I said no let’s keep going I said how
much time is up he’s like 32 minutes
okay rest of the whole match couldn’t
move doing everything like this I’m
getting scared because I’m thinking man
well what happens if I if I if I pinch
something or something like you know I
don’t know your mind starts fucking with
you in the moment there’s 85,000 people
your Adrenaline’s rushing thinking man
what happens we’re gonna lose my leg or
some shit like this if I’ve just done
something to my artery final move of the
match is his big finishing move and I
remember I’m getting up and I’m turning
like this because I have to fall into
him he’s gonna hit me with his big
finisher it’s like a massive suplex
where I go over his head and fuck it and
slams me down and I remember turning I
remember turning into John and he says
and I remember thinking myself god
please don’t let this be too bad just
take care of me take care of me bang I
feel boom
I don’t know what the fuck just happened
and now luckily matches overheat pins
but when she comes in the back get to
the back I can’t move now getting a
little nervous and doctors come in John
comes in you okay he comes in where was
like to celebrate with booze he brings
like moonshine like legit moonshine
that’s like crazy white boy shit that
they bring like in a jar
this is moonshot hid let’s have some
more chances okay don’t know what’s
happening rush get on a jet rushed home
to my doctor’s down in Florida and get
an MRI find out that I have completely
torn my adductor the top of my my a
doctor and my top of my quad off my
pelvis yes really really fucked up so
it’s a very long story to tell you what
I was proud of was to walk out on my own
but not only that but in this fucking
moment where the odds are against you
people are watching teams depending on
you you either say I’m done or this shit
whatever the fuck is going on
it’s temporary and it made fuck me up at
some point down the road look at the end
of the day like again that’s it’s the
kind of stuff that I talked about at top
is I have to hold on to my dad in his
pickup truck came down four o’clock in
the morning picked me up at in whoo in
Miami from Tampa we lived in a little
shitty apartment in Tampa he drove down
and his little pickup truck
to Miami to get me when I was cut from
the CFL I was driving up I 75 I don’t
know if you guys are from Florida any of
you guys if you know it’s i-75 is like
especially down in Florida Alligator
Alley I’ll never forget it’s four
o’clock in the morning and I thought
well fuck that I leave home like you
guys left home I’m ready to tackle the
world to get after it
achieve my dreams and goals fucking
crushed by 22 23 years old I’m now I got
to move back in with my mom and dad I
played on great teams oh wait a second
this is not supposed to be my future I’m
supposed to be in the NFL right now I’m
supposed to be making a lot of coin and
buy my parents
it buying me shit taking care of my wife
but it never happened so I pulled in my
wallet I thought well let me see how
much money I have I opened it up I had a
5 a 1 and change I’m not fucking around
and and I said well at least I rounded
up to 7 bucks but I thought god this is
a bitch I got seven bucks in my pocket
where the fuck do I go now
what’d I do I can’t go back to CFL
because I are you know the point comes
where you hear that voice big runs over
like you’re done right so I heard that
voice so as coach was saying man I hold
on to that shit I’m telling you I keep
my back up against this motherfucker
we laugh we joke we have a good time
press is always fun to do sometime you
got to make it fun that’s another thing
he had to do your best to make press fun
if you can but my back is still up
against this motherfucker I do not
forget it
so coach was saying like you’re gonna go
in through challenging times as a team
you guys are on the come-up you’re on
the rise what this also helps me do and
again if it works for me is at some
point you got to be fucking tired of not
being number one you have to be and you
got to fucking play angry and I play
angry now I’m cool and calm with my
approach and when I step out on my field
which is a set or you know like there’s
something you’re always gonna have
haters and haters like we’ll see a man
how many movies you’re gonna make her
how much shit are you gonna do like you
do a lot of shit I say yes cuz my
ambition of course why not I could do it
yeah I love what I do and not only that
but in what world do we not work every
day it doesn’t mean it’s just like you
guys in the offseason
you got work every fucking day it
doesn’t end my back is a begins this
thing you know and I and I and I started
to play angry by the way and and I still
I still play angry my last match Brock
lesner
transitioned and I realized if I had to
be great at something I wanted to be
great in this world of Hollywood and
moviemaking and producing and
entertainment I had to commit and like
you guys have to commit obviously you
commit to something commit to the goal
so I quietly retired two years later I
thought what the fuck did I do in my
career cuz my movies were not doing well
I was written off it was like he’s
around 2006 2007 I was like goddamn I
left I pulled a Jim Brown I left when I
was on top like number one in the
wrestling business and I left it was a
ballsy gutsy some call it stupid move
but I had to commit and I had to follow
it was in my god and at that time I’ll
share this with you guys and Will Smith
is my boy and I sat down at that time
with the agency I was with I said what
do you want to accomplish I said I want
to accomplish the world I want the world
and I want I want Will Smith’s career
but and I said and I mean this
respectfully because I know he’s here at
this agency with us I want to do it
bigger and better and they looked at me
like I had three fucking heads and they
were like mm-hmm
okay but I still stayed focused and I
still had these still put in the hard
work with my two hands and that’s it and
that’s what it comes down to with you
guys to you know look I I appreciate you
guys giving me the time I enjoyed this
back-and-forth wrapping a little bit but
the one thing I do want to leave you
with is as you guys know there’s nothing
you can’t accomplish you’re gonna go on
you’re gonna become world champions the
key for me what I think one of the keys
is remember where you came from keep
that shit in the front of your mind and
when shit goes bad it goes sideways a
lot of shit does you’re getting booed
out of the fucking building or coming
through this injury or people are you
writing you off all you guys gonna
fucking make it you know any of that
shit you got it you got to keep it in
here the and it really has to it should
drive you it should it works for me it
should drive you you get all the talent
in the world it’s all here
it’s all here everybody’s next best
thing everybody’s the thing everybody’s
the best it’s all here but goddamn I
want to do better I’d want to do better
how that is because they even said to me
well how do you do it better than him
this was in 2006 I said I don’t know but
I do believe there’s a better way to do
it in a different way to do it maybe
it’s through social media connectivity
global I don’t know let me understand the market all that and Here I am
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