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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You know, I think we dot ourselves more than anybody
else ever doubts us so and I fight that too.
I fight that every day, especially, you know, with these
new jobs and businesses that I never thought that I
would be in. I never knew I could be and
I'm supposed to or could be any good at. And
I think the thing the routines that I have, my
routines are very simple. I find out what the job
(00:29):
is and I bust my ass to get it done.
It's not half the stuff is not that complicated. For
for GMA, I understand it. I need to read. I
need to read a lot. I need to know what
I'm talking about before I open my mouth. And it's
something great about that because it's challenged me in a
(00:49):
way that haven't been challenged that live. I didn't have
to do that live. I could take two minutes to
read the questions that I'm going to ask the guests,
and then the rest of it was personality driven, so
I could get away with just you know, being there
and just being you know, I guess, joyful and entertaining.
Where GMA requires some of that, but it required for
you to have some knowledge on different things and That's
(01:11):
what I love about it. It takes me back, to
be honest with you, to football, and it relates to
football to me because not growing up playing, I was
still learning my fifteenth and final season, right, I never
got bored with the game. And that's how I feel
about GMA. I don't think I'll ever get bored because
every day it's so different and every day is a challenge.
(01:33):
And so for me, it's about just studying and knowing
what my job is and knowing what my job description
is and knowing what I'm what I can bring to
the equation. And the toughest thing, you know, going to
GMA for me was figuring that out because you have
Georgia and now Robin Man Amy av Lera, and you
have people who have been established on the show that
(01:54):
has been established for a long time, and how does
my personality fit in. So it's been like in running
into a wall here and there until I can find Okay,
I'll fit into that slot and I let me find
the next one. And it's a work in progress. I'm
you know, I work every day. You know, there's the
wheels are spinning in my head of I'm sitting there
with the camera on my face that I'm talking to
(02:14):
about how to be myself within a situation that you
usually don't have a chance to inject personality into. But
that's what they want. But it's been it's been a challenge,
but it's been fun. It's been exciting, and I wake
up every day and I love being there and I
love making the people around me happy that I'm there.
That's important to me too. It was always bigger than
(02:36):
me and I had success on a football field, singular success, right,
you know, I've been Defensive Player of the Year a
few times, and it's like I can't celebrate this or
a team at Lotti records, Like there's no I never
found much joy in something that was a singular success
the best time. Does anyone ever ask me what is
the best thing from your career? It's like it's a
super Bowl. It's everybody being able to celebrate the accomplishment
(03:01):
of us as a team and not me as an individual.
And there is definitely a switch you have to have.
And to me, I do love people, and it's natural
for me to be nice to people. I don't know
any other way. I don't know why you wouldn't be,
but It's also has worked for me because in anything
I do, I have to be fake. I don't have
(03:21):
to be something I'm not, so I don't have to
be nice to you here and then leave and you
see me later on, because I've been around a lot
of people like that, and it's as if they're a
different person, like I just saw you ten minutes ago,
who this guy? And I never wanted to be that.
I always wanted to be myself the entire time, which
works great for me. I love psychology of things. That's
why I think I love a team. I love getting
(03:42):
people on the same page in the psychology of from
football to me. In the media, with football and simple things,
you get the game program every week and it's the
same picture throughout the whole year of the guys. But
I had a ritual. I would look at the program,
I would look at everybody on my team, so you
got and then I would look at the other team's guys.
(04:02):
And when you're a young player, you get intimidated by
faces and some guy sitting there looking like that, and
you're like, oh man, that guy the killer. Oh I
don't look scared. But as I got older, I said,
it was like psychologically, if somebody looks like that, then
they're you know, then okay, But how much more afraid
(04:22):
would you be if somebody you don't with a killing
they just smiled. So in my program ficture, I'd be
like this, it looked like a glamorous side. It looked
like I went to the mall and it was like,
this is the guy. His must be crazy to be
smiling these photos like this, and so like I went
just dot little silly things like that. With the media.
(04:43):
I didn't talk every day to the end, I said,
I talk one day week, I talk to thursdays. And
I did it because if you talk all the time,
it's like going to the same restaurant, it's not special.
And especially in the media of New York, when there
are so many different people and so many outlets and
everybody just with so much content, you need yours to
(05:05):
stand out. So if you want to talk to me
and you only get me one day a week, I
guarantee you when I talk to you, you're gonna cherish that.
You're gonna use that. And I would mix it up
on the media as well as they would give me
a hard time, I give them a hard time I'll
tell you one question today. I'm not a bad mood,
but I just act like I give me one question,
ask me one answer to ask me a second. I say,
(05:26):
you hear what I said? I said one, I'm sorry,
I gotta go another days I sit there and I
would chat how your wife's doing, you know, everything's good,
and I would just mix them up, keep them off
their off, off balance a little bit. And I just
enjoyed the psychological battle of football. I enjoyed the psychological
battle of the media. And in a lot of ways
now it's not quite the same, but I still like
(05:50):
that that aspect of psychologically getting everybody on the same
page to be successful. But everyone thinks this either everyone
thinks you're not scared if I tell you, and everyone
thinks you haven't had failures, or that I've had plenty
of failures, but I don't look at failure. I've never
looked at a failure and said woe is me? Oh,
I don't know. I'm just programmed saying I didn't work, Okay,
let's go next thing, work harder, figure something else up,
(06:12):
keep going. I'm not programmed to go it didn't work
out and let me contemplate and feel sorry for myself,
and you know, and and go over here and get sympathy.
I'm just I don't know if it's where I was
brought up or if it's from a business of football,
where it's a win or lose. It's like success or failure.
And if you lose a football game, I don't have
(06:34):
time to think about how I lost it and what
I did wrong, because if I'm doing that, thet the
guy I'm playing next week is getting ahead of me.
So I got to worry about what's coming up next
and push for what's next, and get better for what's next,
not get better for what's in the not not worry
about what I wasn't good enough in the past. Right,
And I've done Sitcom fail, business of fail, you know,
(06:57):
but you figure it out. Life is about figuring it out.
Life is not going to be perfect, and if you
expect it to be perfect, you're fooling yourself. And a
perfect life without a challenge is not a perfect life.
If it's a boring life boring if you do something
and your name is on it, my name is right there.
If it's not successful, who's gonna get blamed for it? Right, you,
(07:21):
if it is successful, who's gonna get credit for you?
And I found that if I'm going to get blamed
for something because it's happened before that I didn't really
put everything into it. I'm pissed that I'm being blamed
for something failing because I didn't put all the work
into it. Right. But yet, for me, if I'm getting
all the credit for being successful and I know I
(07:43):
didn't put anything into it, feel like a fraud. And
you gotta put up with that for yourself. And maybe
some people are comfortable with that. I'm just not comfortable
with that. So that's why all the businesses I'd like
to be a part of because I don't. I don't
want to feel like a fraud. I want to if
someone asked me about I don't want to talk to
you about it. I'm real. I don't have to make
up some story and then go home and go on.
(08:05):
You know why, I sure have to lie about that.
That's not a good feeling. So if you're gonna get
blame for failure, accept it. Hey, I put all my
I put everything I had into it. It felt move
on to the next. But I know I busted my
ass and if you're getting to credit and everybody getting
cre credit for success, you can feel good because you
truly have been a part of that too. And that's
something that keeps me involved in everything. And like I said,
(08:28):
those of the Rock and Kevin are like, bust your ass,
bust your ass workers, man, I appreciate that like you.
My father worked really hard. And if my biggest complaint
is being on an airplane and sleeping right, then I
got a problem. And if I'm complaining about that, So
I keep everything in check by thinking back. But how
(08:52):
hard and how realistic life is, and how you know
I've been very fortunate. I don't take it for granted.
It's not if you really want something back, it's not
gonna be easy. And you can see where you want
to go, but there are so many things you're gonna
have to go through to get there. But truly, if
you focus and know where you want to end up,
you will be there. It may not be at the
(09:13):
exact time you want, which is now is kind of
immediate for most people, but you'll eventually get there at
your time when you're supposed to
You know, I think we dot ourselves more than anybody
else ever doubts us so and I fight that too.
I fight that every day, especially, you know, with these
new jobs and businesses that I never thought that I
would be in. I never knew I could be and
I'm supposed to or could be any good at. And
I think the thing the routines that I have, my
routines are very simple. I find out what the job
(00:29):
is and I bust my ass to get it done.
It's not half the stuff is not that complicated. For
for GMA, I understand it. I need to read. I
need to read a lot. I need to know what
I'm talking about before I open my mouth. And it's
something great about that because it's challenged me in a
(00:49):
way that haven't been challenged that live. I didn't have
to do that live. I could take two minutes to
read the questions that I'm going to ask the guests,
and then the rest of it was personality driven, so
I could get away with just you know, being there
and just being you know, I guess, joyful and entertaining.
Where GMA requires some of that, but it required for
you to have some knowledge on different things and That's
(01:11):
what I love about it. It takes me back, to
be honest with you, to football, and it relates to
football to me because not growing up playing, I was
still learning my fifteenth and final season, right, I never
got bored with the game. And that's how I feel
about GMA. I don't think I'll ever get bored because
every day it's so different and every day is a challenge.
(01:33):
And so for me, it's about just studying and knowing
what my job is and knowing what my job description
is and knowing what I'm what I can bring to
the equation. And the toughest thing, you know, going to
GMA for me was figuring that out because you have
Georgia and now Robin Man Amy av Lera, and you
have people who have been established on the show that
(01:54):
has been established for a long time, and how does
my personality fit in. So it's been like in running
into a wall here and there until I can find Okay,
I'll fit into that slot and I let me find
the next one. And it's a work in progress. I'm
you know, I work every day. You know, there's the
wheels are spinning in my head of I'm sitting there
with the camera on my face that I'm talking to
(02:14):
about how to be myself within a situation that you
usually don't have a chance to inject personality into. But
that's what they want. But it's been it's been a challenge,
but it's been fun. It's been exciting, and I wake
up every day and I love being there and I
love making the people around me happy that I'm there.
That's important to me too. It was always bigger than
(02:36):
me and I had success on a football field, singular success, right,
you know, I've been Defensive Player of the Year a
few times, and it's like I can't celebrate this or
a team at Lotti records, Like there's no I never
found much joy in something that was a singular success
the best time. Does anyone ever ask me what is
the best thing from your career? It's like it's a
super Bowl. It's everybody being able to celebrate the accomplishment
(03:01):
of us as a team and not me as an individual.
And there is definitely a switch you have to have.
And to me, I do love people, and it's natural
for me to be nice to people. I don't know
any other way. I don't know why you wouldn't be,
but It's also has worked for me because in anything
I do, I have to be fake. I don't have
(03:21):
to be something I'm not, so I don't have to
be nice to you here and then leave and you
see me later on, because I've been around a lot
of people like that, and it's as if they're a
different person, like I just saw you ten minutes ago,
who this guy? And I never wanted to be that.
I always wanted to be myself the entire time, which
works great for me. I love psychology of things. That's
why I think I love a team. I love getting
(03:42):
people on the same page in the psychology of from
football to me. In the media, with football and simple things,
you get the game program every week and it's the
same picture throughout the whole year of the guys. But
I had a ritual. I would look at the program,
I would look at everybody on my team, so you
got and then I would look at the other team's guys.
(04:02):
And when you're a young player, you get intimidated by
faces and some guy sitting there looking like that, and
you're like, oh man, that guy the killer. Oh I
don't look scared. But as I got older, I said,
it was like psychologically, if somebody looks like that, then
they're you know, then okay, But how much more afraid
(04:22):
would you be if somebody you don't with a killing
they just smiled. So in my program ficture, I'd be
like this, it looked like a glamorous side. It looked
like I went to the mall and it was like,
this is the guy. His must be crazy to be
smiling these photos like this, and so like I went
just dot little silly things like that. With the media.
(04:43):
I didn't talk every day to the end, I said,
I talk one day week, I talk to thursdays. And
I did it because if you talk all the time,
it's like going to the same restaurant, it's not special.
And especially in the media of New York, when there
are so many different people and so many outlets and
everybody just with so much content, you need yours to
(05:05):
stand out. So if you want to talk to me
and you only get me one day a week, I
guarantee you when I talk to you, you're gonna cherish that.
You're gonna use that. And I would mix it up
on the media as well as they would give me
a hard time, I give them a hard time I'll
tell you one question today. I'm not a bad mood,
but I just act like I give me one question,
ask me one answer to ask me a second. I say,
(05:26):
you hear what I said? I said one, I'm sorry,
I gotta go another days I sit there and I
would chat how your wife's doing, you know, everything's good,
and I would just mix them up, keep them off
their off, off balance a little bit. And I just
enjoyed the psychological battle of football. I enjoyed the psychological
battle of the media. And in a lot of ways
now it's not quite the same, but I still like
(05:50):
that that aspect of psychologically getting everybody on the same
page to be successful. But everyone thinks this either everyone
thinks you're not scared if I tell you, and everyone
thinks you haven't had failures, or that I've had plenty
of failures, but I don't look at failure. I've never
looked at a failure and said woe is me? Oh,
I don't know. I'm just programmed saying I didn't work, Okay,
let's go next thing, work harder, figure something else up,
(06:12):
keep going. I'm not programmed to go it didn't work
out and let me contemplate and feel sorry for myself,
and you know, and and go over here and get sympathy.
I'm just I don't know if it's where I was
brought up or if it's from a business of football,
where it's a win or lose. It's like success or failure.
And if you lose a football game, I don't have
(06:34):
time to think about how I lost it and what
I did wrong, because if I'm doing that, thet the
guy I'm playing next week is getting ahead of me.
So I got to worry about what's coming up next
and push for what's next, and get better for what's next,
not get better for what's in the not not worry
about what I wasn't good enough in the past. Right,
And I've done Sitcom fail, business of fail, you know,
(06:57):
but you figure it out. Life is about figuring it out.
Life is not going to be perfect, and if you
expect it to be perfect, you're fooling yourself. And a
perfect life without a challenge is not a perfect life.
If it's a boring life boring if you do something
and your name is on it, my name is right there.
If it's not successful, who's gonna get blamed for it? Right, you,
(07:21):
if it is successful, who's gonna get credit for you?
And I found that if I'm going to get blamed
for something because it's happened before that I didn't really
put everything into it. I'm pissed that I'm being blamed
for something failing because I didn't put all the work
into it. Right. But yet, for me, if I'm getting
all the credit for being successful and I know I
(07:43):
didn't put anything into it, feel like a fraud. And
you gotta put up with that for yourself. And maybe
some people are comfortable with that. I'm just not comfortable
with that. So that's why all the businesses I'd like
to be a part of because I don't. I don't
want to feel like a fraud. I want to if
someone asked me about I don't want to talk to
you about it. I'm real. I don't have to make
up some story and then go home and go on.
(08:05):
You know why, I sure have to lie about that.
That's not a good feeling. So if you're gonna get
blame for failure, accept it. Hey, I put all my
I put everything I had into it. It felt move
on to the next. But I know I busted my
ass and if you're getting to credit and everybody getting
cre credit for success, you can feel good because you
truly have been a part of that too. And that's
something that keeps me involved in everything. And like I said,
(08:28):
those of the Rock and Kevin are like, bust your ass,
bust your ass workers, man, I appreciate that like you.
My father worked really hard. And if my biggest complaint
is being on an airplane and sleeping right, then I
got a problem. And if I'm complaining about that, So
I keep everything in check by thinking back. But how
(08:52):
hard and how realistic life is, and how you know
I've been very fortunate. I don't take it for granted.
It's not if you really want something back, it's not
gonna be easy. And you can see where you want
to go, but there are so many things you're gonna
have to go through to get there. But truly, if
you focus and know where you want to end up,
you will be there. It may not be at the
(09:13):
exact time you want, which is now is kind of
immediate for most people, but you'll eventually get there at
your time when you're supposed to
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