# NOW is your time - Speech to Alabama Football Team | Gary Vaynerchuk 2018 Keynote

## Метаданные

- **Канал:** Gary Vaynerchuk
- **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqlz3Lngh1U
- **Дата:** 25.09.2018
- **Длительность:** 40:59
- **Просмотры:** 101,028
- **Источник:** https://ekstraktznaniy.ru/video/18195

## Описание

Speaking to the 2018 Alabama Crimson Tide football team in August and giving my best advice on their current opportunity and the perspective and motivation student athletes should have while in school.

I was thrilled to be able to give them a framework on what I'm about which allowed for doing what I love most when I'm invited to speak, which is open Q&A on whatever is most contextual to them as individuals and as college football players.

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### Segment 1 (00:00 - 05:00) []

about to give a talk to the bandwidth football team national champs I'm a national champ feels natural you got your perspective sup fellas thanks thank you for having me I'm super honored look I'm gonna set some framework I think when you come and speak when you do something like this my biggest agenda in here is to bring you guys value you guys are busy you could be doing something with your time I don't need to be wasting it so what I'd really like to do is create a framework that allows us to do some Q& A so I can answer some direct questions whatever is running through your mind let me give you a little context because I know the far majority of you have no idea who I am I was born in the former Soviet Union I came to the US when I was three we moved to a studio apartment in Queens I lived with eight family members in a studio apartment slightly bigger than the stage that I'm on now my parents grinded I didn't see my dad until I was like 14 my mom and I kind of put it together you know walking two miles no car all that kind of stuff so it was a real humble beginning eventually my dad became a manager in a liquor store in New Jersey so we moved to Jersey that's where my entrepreneurial hustle started when I was six I was running four or five lemonade stands I convinced tricked whatever you want to call it my friends in the neighborhood to stand there all day I would make signs and look at cars and try to make money ripping flowers out of people's yards and selling it to them selling rocks baseball cards lemonade washing cars shoveling like I was very unique for all the immigrants that came from Russia because education was the way out and for me my DNA just didn't pull me that direction so I was a DNF student growing up but when I was 12 13 years old I was making two three thousand dollars a weekend because I was flinging baseball and football on basketball cards so that's just who I was and now in this day and age the entrepreneur is cool like people that's what people want to be people make that money when I was growing up when I was your age or at least half your age the only route out was school and so frankly I was [ __ ] on my whole life right even my friend's parents didn't want me hanging out because I was dragging their kids into bad school different things there was just it made no sense to me the thought that I was being so successful off the school field and yet that wasn't being viewed in an any good way and so that was my life I went to a tiny school called Mount Ida college in Newton Mass I was in my freshman dorm room in September of 94 playing Madden 95 my friend rolls in I was dominating in Madden using the old school team using Joe Namath in the 69 Jets it's my squad my man walks in he goes you got to come see this I walk in and it was the first time I saw the internet you know you guys are youngsters you're not gonna remember this but some of the coaches and the soul timers we remember the cool couch guy that [ __ ] and I sat there watched it and within the first five to seven minutes I could feel that I was looking at something completely different and I waited for an hour this how old school this was I had a wait an hour before it was my turn to go on the Internet I went on and within another thirty minutes I was on a bulletin board selling cards and I realized my dream of opening up 10,000 liquor stores wine shops across the country because my goal and still as I sit here today as a 42 year old man my goal is to buy the New York Jets and the way I've thought about that was I was gonna open up 10,000 wine stores flip it sell it buy the Jets in that moment in September of 94 I was like wait a minute I don't need to do that I'm gonna use this thing and from that day on to here the Internet has been the foundation of a lot of things I've thought about now it's mature now but in the early days when I launched the first e-commerce wine business in America called winelibrary. com people clowned on me told my daddy was an idiot for letting his kid do this look people thought the internet was a fad forget about social media or snapchat the whole thing was a fad and so that's how I came up and in five years I built my dad's liquor store from a three to a sixty million dollar business I made it everybody thought it was a whiz kid I was in papers TV it was amazing and then YouTube came out I thought it was gonna be big I started a wine show on YouTube because I wanted to educate people about wine and within the first six months it got real big and then YouTube sold to Google for two billion dollars and when I saw that flip I kind of looked at it and in an article it said angel investor Ron Conway made all this money on a $25,000 investment and I said I've been so right

### Segment 2 (05:00 - 10:00) [5:00]

about email and Google and the internet the next time I feel it I'm gonna invest and so in 2006 the first three companies I invested in were Facebook Twitter and Tumblr yeah I'm super [ __ ] rich so that worked and then my brother then my brother was graduating school in 2009 and even though I'm rich and I made it and I did a good thing I like the process I like the game I like being an entrepreneur like some of you guys in here love playing others are just cool with it it's your way out there's a million different variables just some people can't breathe without it I can't breathe without the game can't breathe without being busy I can't breathe without working 15 hours a day I can't breathe without every minute being scheduled you know I woke up at 4:30 this morning with the Chicago met with Kraft got on a plane here now with you guys gonna drive to Atlanta tonight because I got a meeting like just in it just and I'm gonna be in studio with Sonny digital to 3 a. m. tonight and then 7 a. m. be in a meeting so just in it because I love my process I love my game and that is what I've been spending more time on in the last 3 4 or 5 years that's the thing I think I can bring value here because you're all gonna have different paths the thing that I become fascinated with is where's your mind Act write to me for example I'm gonna throw you something I've been thinking about on the flight down here to me the craziest thing is that for most of you your talent is your vulnerability and not that like plays with my head the fact that you're Tao is actually your vulnerability because it's been so given - you don't even know any different I know you're talented because I can contacts how fast you can run what you can do what you can live how you can play but your talent is the vulnerability and to me how you get over there and understand that for me what's super interesting is on some straight facts for 80% of you this is the apex of your life you're a bama ballplayer like most of you are not gonna be in the league that most of you are definitely not going to be in a league for more than three years just math and so what do you do with all the leverage you have right now you know to me I think a lot about when I talk to some of the kids on DM and [ __ ] like that I don't think about are they really leveraging their moment do they understand while they're the big dog on campus right now that the kids sitting next to them in chemistry class in six years is gonna have all the leverage and they're not and they're too cool to say hello to somebody and that leverage can change the course of their life and so for me you know when I walk here I got a few minutes with coach he's like what are going to talk about the only thing that kept running through my mouth is like who in here which fringe special teams player which third-string Lineback like who's gonna hear what I have to say which is this is the greatest era to ever be a lot alive coach I others we didn't grow up with this internet thing the access and ability you have to do whatever you want is extraordinary it's almost uncomfortable but and it was amazing my team couple guys on my team are here we walk by and big sign the hall said no excuses I just got so happy like to me it's just a hundred percent accountability like to me this is all about happiness like life happiness to me this is just the easiest way I know how to be happy is to blame myself for everything all of it and there's tactics you know I was talking to coach about et it's he's my guy coming through here like he's like et challenged them to be off social media for 30 days I was like why the [ __ ] would he do that cuz that's a tactic like that's short term right like that's cool you check that box but the reality is it's more about controlling what's happening to me technology is the great ammo for you I hate when people talk about Millennials and this and that like for me this is it like this you guys are the best at this you understand it the best you are the best version it's always the evolution but do you know how to make it work for you that's a mindset game and so I think about this all the time I'm watching so many bike I'm getting 10,000 DMS a day right now for kids they're coming from so many angles they don't have enough so they resonate with me like what I grew up with they have too much and their parents are taking care of everything like to me they're trying to find their balance because there's weakness and too little or too much and so for me every day I'm walking through this and I'm seeing it and I'm wondering what is going through their mind what are they thinking about because to me the greatest leverage but what's crazy about this program in comparison to all the other places is the leverage you sit with right now actually carries through once you have that a on your patch like you can play that forever but I'm just watching kid after kid in programs that have similarities or other things to not leverage it as I'm in fact this is actually I'm glad I get to tell this story because this really hits home Dee Milner was a create an incredible player here

### Segment 3 (10:00 - 15:00) [10:00]

here obviously I was super excited when he went top ten to the Jets unfortunately he got hurt and he was out of the league at a league within two three years right basically never really played in the NFL for real obviously got very fortunate cuz he was a top-10 pick to get some money but he was in New York and I tell all these guys when they come through cuz all these guys know wouldn't become a jet they can DM me and I'm gonna see him and I tell him I'm like you're in New York leverage it while you're a jet I'll see you fifteen times I'll introduce you to every CEO in the world blah blah blah I'm like the second you get trade and go to the Packers I'm out I won't return your phone call and that is leverage you have and so for me life is very simple I worked 15 hours a day in a liquor store from 22 to 34 and I lived in a studio apartment and bought nothing no Supremes no off lights no [ __ ] flat screens nothing interesting I saved and saved and then I had my moment I saw the world was changing the internet was evolving and everything I had I'd have that much in comparison I put it all in on Facebook Tumblr and Twitter for me this is my moment when I saw clarity of where the internet was going and I went all in I'll be very frank with you guys you've got that right now like the level of taking for granted what you're sitting on is extraordinary the amount of business men and women thought leaders people that this place is religion to are willing to have a conversation with you look at you totally different today than they will in three or four years and this you're managing your time you've got so much to do between the classroom and this there's so little time like look I'm all about you playing fortnight talking to those girls on DM I'm all about that I mean it but allocating time to leverage your moment to understand what you're actually sitting on with the leverage of the brand that this has been created that's something you can learn here that you can use for the rest of your life to me the leverage of being a ball player here like you are now and every classmate wants to talk to you wants to have some sort of relationship and I know that 90% of them are gonna have more leverage than you and five or seven years I just want you to strike like what you're too cool for somebody you got to listen to your headphones and put your hoodie on you can't say hello like I'm desperate for the guy that's thinking that to just say yo you need to go the other way to me the ROI of things like college are the people are the game in life that's how life actually plays out and so for me you are in a remarkable spot right now and you've got to do plenty of film study and plenty of school and plenty of taking care of whatever else you've got to take care of but squeezing it is just phenomenally interesting to me they bounce on a couple other places and open it up to Q& A I think the biggest thing that I've noticed for the people that are winning whatever that may be money success in business life what have you I think patience is a massive foundation for them I think patience has been extraordinary thing for me to watch everybody just wants it so fast you know and especially when you're younger it just feels like you want it so it's tough to like you know to me when I got in a school and I wanted to do all these big things my cousin was 30 years old in the liquor store and I was 22 and I thought he was old as [ __ ] right just eight years older to me if I realized at that time how young he was if I could make you feel the way I feel right now at 42 I feel exactly like you I'm twice your age it feels the same inside and the second you would actually understand that or believe it everything else starts changing you start getting patient you get way more meticulous you start thinking about things completely different and for me that's if like one person could start really realizing the patient's game that would make a ton of sense for me let me bounce around a little bit here I think one of the interesting things I tried to do a little homework is I appreciate that coach is not cramping too down on social and things of that nature but obviously you want you to be thoughtful no different than anything else right again I kind of harped on a few minutes ago about campus or people that are fans of the program the amount of people you can get to through DM on Instagram is remarkable if you have interests if you want internships if you're thinking about things that you're excited about in life like people gonna return your DM being thoughtful about that about where you want to go there's only these couple moments in time I was there for early Twitter if you tweeted somebody they replied about a year or two later game over I'm real old email back in 96 97 98 you emailed somebody they replied you've got that moment for about another year another half year maybe two years on Instagram DM you need to use that for your ambitions in your future or whatever works here just be

### Segment 4 (15:00 - 20:00) [15:00]

very thoughtful of the power of people applying cuz they're gonna click on your profile they're gonna see what you're about and they're gonna reply so I would highly recommend squeezing that huge opportunity for me when I think about all the things that have worked for me it all comes down to perspective right so after I made those three investments later on about a year or two later I was an early investor in uber as well right and so yeah but I [ __ ] up uber because I could have been even earlier because I was literally in the room when it was invented in Paris by the two founders but the first pitch of wouldn't it be cool if limousines could pick you up if you pressed a button on your phone seemed a little too bougie and for the 1% and I think it was gonna be a big business I didn't realize how it was gonna play out but to me what it represented is something that I think you need to be thinking about which is everything you're thinking about right now literally in five to seven years is gonna be completely changed between augmented reality machine learning cryptocurrency I'm sure some of you lost some money on some Bitcoin you know like all this stuff that's actually happening like this internet thing this technology thing is just starting it's gonna be completely encompassing like the robots are gonna kill us in the end right and so like serious by the way and so better enjoy it while we're living and so just contextualizing what's going on and your opportunities within it matter so much and listen I'll be real frank with you like I know people are sitting here like you've got singular focuses I respect that honestly I've deployed massive empathy where your mindset might be out and to be very honest with you ultimately I really don't care what you do right you're not my sister you're not my mom you know I just really hope that one or two people can really understand that you're sitting on unbelievable amounts of leverage and the thing that I'm most scared of one of the biggest reasons I like spending time with really old people retirement home stuff is if I could give you a crazy left-field piece of advice go one day to retirement home and just help out if you see regret in a man's eyes like real regret when the game's over it will change the way you navigate your life every day and to me to be very frank watching all these 24 25 26 27 year-old football players DME who had a cup of coffee in the league who got hurt who watching there regret of them not leveraging their three years here made me answer real quick coach when you reached out real quick because I was like man if I could just get one kid the [ __ ] punter on this team to understand that he can squeeze it you know like to me it's just at a remarkable time of your life and you will always think about it and so I highly recommend you take a step back and you start deploying massive gratitude on what actually is going on here you got to focus on this season I'm sure plenty of you got a chip on your shoulders I'm sure you put a lot of you were hearing the whispers of like where people think you're gonna play out what you're thinking to play out so I'm sure you're SuperDuper focused but to me one step back and start deploying perspective of what this moment your life is and how much leverage you have and how much opportunity the world has and let me say another thing if you ask me the biggest thing I'm worried about the economy being so good for so long we've had a good economy now for nine years like all these people that are your homies or friends that are say there are entrepreneurs on Instagram but they're not really winning if you're not winning as an entrepreneur right now you suck because it's easy out there the economy's super simple and so to me the biggest concern looking at your age it's highly likely that when you're 23 26 27 that the whole thing's gonna fall let's get real tight and I talk to all these 30 and under entrepreneurs and they think they're big shots and I always tell them like the problem with you is you haven't been punched in the mouth yet because the last seven eight years that you've been navigating the markets been so remarkable so for me not only am I thinking over the top about the mindset of where you're at to me I'm thinking about the playing field that you're actually gonna live in your 20s to 30s and then that just compounds my energy of like be thoughtful like network for real like figure out what interests you have for real like of course go for the lead and you do you but you have enough talent to do all of it and so I'm just thinking that this is the time and I just hope that you don't regret it and let it go by questions my man because I don't like the money coaches

### Segment 5 (20:00 - 25:00) [20:00]

won five championships what's he doing look I love the game like I want the admiration what am I doing here I'll be frank with you guys are cool and all I'm looking for admiration I'm looking for one of you to email me nine years from now saying yo you came through Bama when I was there you said something about saying hello to people I just said hello to somebody in class because I don't know I remembered that you were there and that person is now my business partner we're winning I just want to say thank you that's a high I'm sure you get it at scale guys coming back that's a ha I can't get off that high I was on Breakfast Club about a year ago two years ago and uh it was going good and then NV was mad cuz Charlemagne was being too soft on me so he was like yo you're talking all this motivational [ __ ] why don't you give us a piece of good advice how's it go damn like in so you know Devon radio so I was like the only thing I went to is what I grew up on like flip game I was like look he's like well what if I only have a hundred bucks I was like well then you need to go to Goodwill or the dollar store or Craigslist and buy some stuff and flip it and I created this whole flipped challenge and the amount of people that made an extra five hundred bucks a thousand bucks that it really meant something to and getting those emails I'm in it for a lot of reasons one I want to buy the Jets so I'm rich but I need a lot more right that's number one number two I'd die if I didn't work like to me my game my passion like I love my family more than life but my wife walked into my like bedroom tonight and was like I need you to stop working and be home she knows that I'd be like look we need to figure this out or we're just not gonna be together I can't like it's not because I don't love her I'm being serious I know it sounds weird but I'm just telling you I would suffocate and so I'm in it for the game and honestly I'll be honest with you I think the quickest way to get paper is to love the process because you're not gonna be able to work 15 hours a day if you're doing it for some new Supremes it's too hard if you don't love it what it's a completion in the conscious mind or anything sensitive because we're also changing so what is it in the crossing point you know consciousness had a rose the mindset how did I think about like going straight to me that the big thing was I'll tell you I think the biggest vulnerability you've got is you actually value somebody's opinion more than you value your own like the reason I've been able to always do my thing is when I was 24 and people were like oh you work at your dad's liquor store like I heard that it's like a chip on my shoulder you know I loved it I was like cool keep sleeping on me dick you know like I'm glad you're on Wall Street making a hundred thousand buying BMWs and dumb jewelry I'll see you in 30 years you understand like to me the way you win is you realize you can't hear nobody not your parents I mean listen you got to listen to coach and all that should I get it but at the end of the day my guy yourself you got to get real quiet up here I can't hear anything you go look at my Instagram right now my first post I'll post something first hundred replies in one second you're Jesus you walk on water you're the best you're the all-time can't hear him the next hundred you're a piece of [ __ ] you're full of [ __ ] you're a snake oil salesman can't hear him I'm in my own mind doing my own thing and that comes with self-esteem everybody's trying to keep up with the Joneses I'm not worried about you being on the [ __ ] in the Hamptons on a blow-up Swan I'm not worried about you renting out cash from the bank and putting it to your ear I'm not worried you jump the fence and took a photo in front of a private plane what do you think these people are doing they're posing patients long game you know what's amazing about being an entrepreneur we get to play forever right you know that was the biggest heard of smart and great football player jet I met him he was like 34 he's got to like rekindle his whole thing and I'm like he's such a young man it's crazy being an athlete having a reset the great thing for me is I get to play forever I'm gonna be working when I'm 96 trying to find my next hustle my guy technology associated oh so they need a connection like connections are amazing for foundational but if you're trying to build awareness let's say you opened a bar a barber shop you want to sell t-shirts like the one big advantage you guys have look I have a huge company my company's gonna do 200 million dollars in revenue I just flew

### Segment 6 (25:00 - 30:00) [25:00]

from Kraft we have Budweiser we have the biggest brands in the world chase they still don't get it I'm sitting the meetings every day and they're not pouring enough money into social media that's your advantage they're still pouring it into commercials and print and things of that nature so you know where the attention is and so social matters but humans and relationships are just honestly no man I said it like I can't explain to you enough how much I want you to meet every person look some of you are introverts if you're an extrovert and your social you need to go all-in on the fact that you got blessed with that DNA that you love people and you love saying hello and you've got the leverage of doing what you're doing now some of you are introverts right and that's hard but like I'm gonna keep pushing to because the lever just absurd my email Gary I actually know what this will be way better DM me at Gary on Instagram Gary Vee yep Gary Vee just DM me there this way I won't lose it good yeah the question was when I was younger when I didn't have as much how do I take the first step honestly this is where I actually am you know with you guys this is the one thing I connect with like somewhere around third grade was when I realized I'd be more likely owning a team than playing for one but for you you know it was what your natural skill was if you think I have any idea why at five years old I went outside and thought it was a good idea to rip people's flowers ring their doorbell and sell it back to them right or like why when it snowed and everybody wanted to make snowmen and sled I'm like let's get to work and convincing my friends to bring doorbells and shovel that was just in me you know and honestly that's another thing right like you have so much talent at what you're doing for a lot of you this is what you should be doing but for a lot of you there's other talents that you don't even know you've never tasted it - the other thing that I want to get people's that go cook go play eSport like do things just a taste so that you get to know what you might be about I just found my thing early you know my guy just super early worked out for me that way you know and that's why I tell people like try stuff like the reason people don't you know what the reason a lot of your teammates here don't do things they're worried about somebody else's thoughts on it they're worried like somebody's me like you're corny like they give up like I would think I would give a [ __ ] about you calling me corny that's a stupid way to live life that's what people are doing out here and in this room and this is a Bama football players what do you think's going on in the world insecurity is driving people's actions my heart's woman hurts no you know I think my heart is you know I'd once I started my career I guess I'm trying to take a couple things you know first of all you know why I'm even like pausing on that I'd be really lying to you so I'm just gonna keep it real I love know I was at the top of the wine game and I left because I won I didn't want to do it anymore and went into marketing where everyone liked the first article written about me was like this guy had wine Twitter I think the article in the big advertising magazine was Twitter boys what they call me Twitter boy thinks he's gonna come and win Madison Avenue ha ha they're not laughing anymore you know and even this game now I can already feel it I'm like oh man three four or five years from now this thing's a rap I'm gonna be the guy someone have to start selling oranges or something you know I got to figure you know I've been up to figure something out because I lose like I'm about to climb back to sports I grew up with diehard Yankees Jets Rangers Knicks fan the Yankees and Rangers won their championships I literally stopped watching them Knicks and Jets are gonna take me a minute you know but like I'm just about the color I just love the climb like even like back to sports cuz I think it's great analogy I'll turn on a random game I need to know who the underdog is that's my team I'm just about to climb you know like to me when I see a kid wearing a Steph Curry Jersey and that kid lives in New York I think that kids soft I mean it he's using somebody else's success to make himself feel good I think the biggest tell of a losing person is wearing a jersey outside your own city it's a subtle thing I miss you know obviously there's always maybe some rationale but that's a [ __ ] I look for a guy my face oh I understand encompass so the question is my biggest burn I've lost millions yeah of course

### Segment 7 (30:00 - 35:00) [30:00]

because you can't win without playing right you got a risk so when you're doing what I did back in the day it was so early you were investing in people's ideas so there was so tinder right before tinder like ten years earlier in the game a Lemieux nity there was a app called Grindr and I was like this [ __ ] is really gonna happen for boys and girls I know it so I was chasing one highlight I was chasing all these apps that I thought could be the tinder right there was one company that I swore was gonna be bigger than Facebook it was called yo Bongo I shouldn't know and just on the [ __ ] name but you know I mean I put a hundred that listen I you know you have to Sam when I was losing this money it was tough for me because my Twitter and Facebook and Tumblr stock hadn't made me money yet so these like that fifty thousand dollar check that went to zero that [ __ ] hurt cuz I was bleeding for that fifty you know but I've lost a lot yeah I mean I'm just not scared I owe you know why I'm not scared because I'm not scared to go backwards like my favorite Rocky is Rocky six when he loses everything and goes back to the hood in Philly like I'm not scared about upward like you understand I like the process I'm not worried about the judgment like back to the first question about the money it's just not even in my mindset my guy what's that yeah I've never borrowed money the reefer barred money because I think most people raise money or with high interest rates because they want [ __ ] faster I want stuff slower the bigger the ambition the more patience you have to deploy so that worked out I didn't you know a lot of this [ __ ] I didn't realize at the time we just I talked about a lot of this stuff now is like it's hindsight I can look back and be like oh so much came to be natural you know but I didn't have to deal with interest rates cuz I never looked to borrow money I was you know I was willing to eat when I started vaynermedia my company now it's gonna be a billion-dollar company it started in a conference room in somebody else's company cuz I don't want to pay rent but I didn't because I wasn't worried about people coming to see a fancy office people are just fronting all the time yes sir I've never doubted when I made the investment I'm not writing some kid a 25 $50,000 check because I doubt it you know unfortunately in that game six months later forget about doubt you regret it the biggest thing I learned was there was a lot of fake entrepreneurs the biggest mistake I made was I was coaching and investing in thinking as if that person was me and I learned like you know I liked the idea I could see how they could do it but they weren't me because I'd look on their Instagram and they're like at the beach on Friday afternoon and the first time I see that photo I'm like I'm dead because they weren't even making money they borrowed money and the audacity is enormous people go out of business they write me an email dear Gary you know sorry to inform you looks like we'll be closing up shop our app has failed we have seven thousand dollars left that's entitled to you know we're really sorry but good news I learned a lot and in the future maybe we can do something and I would reply be like good news you lost my hundred thousand dollars [ __ ] and there's just so much of that entitlement you know and so that's in the last three four years I've gotten out I've been building my business because there's so much fake entrepreneurship in the game a guy it's my life everyday it's running through my desk I'm seeing pitches I'm a full time guy Phil Toronto and my team's looking at businesses but I'm running a very big business right now they're you know I have an office in London I'm opening up one in Brazil and Singapore next year so I'm so busy on my own thing right now because I'm not investing as much because I think there's a lot of fake stuff

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yeah I have a parent company called Vayner X my vaynermedia I bought a women's media site called Pierrot Wow sort of dude site called 137 p. m. so I'm putting in work yeah I played that in college you know and listen that's not what you should be doing if I was lucky enough to come to a place like this and I had those skills to get this kind of education I would have but that wasn't who I was like I just was not a student my guy like just I didn't have it in me you know even now Marcus is standing over there my chief of staff like he's got to keep me focused on like every you know self-awareness man right even on the field for a lot of you self-awareness know what you can and can't do that really matters so and it was tough man you know like when I was coming up entrepreneurship was nothing now everybody wants to be an entrepreneur you know look but like it was tough but I just couldn't hear anything you know yes sir I certainly love it or need it I do it because I want to spend time with my kids now and things of that nature but it's a great question like to me it's like you got to really figure out who you are like whatever I got I just have a ton of energy because I love what I'm doing and it's just you know it's momentum right but like if tomorrow I felt burned out like I'm not scared to take off and I love like Christmas or the last two weeks of August when everyone's checked out then I don't feel any anxiousness that somebody's getting off on me you know to me the problem is I feel like somebody's doing something and that competitive juice is kicking in you know I'm sure you feel that with what you do you know if I'm not in the weight room somebody else's you know and I feel that like and so I don't love it in my I mean the biggest regret so far in my life is in my 20s I did nothing I worked every minute I did nothing and I could have taken a couple vacations it would have been nice to hang out my boys once in a while I just so well woody Johnson's not selling I don't have two billion dollars yet so I'm not worried about when he's gonna sell or when he's not I'm just working on the process but like I've had opportunities to invest some in fact ironically had opportunity invest in the Dolphins which Steve Ross like I've had some opportunities but I'm pretty focused on I want to run it you know and I want to be paid listen I'm thrilled to buy the Jets at 74 like thrilled like if you said that's what it is I'm like amazing you know that's back to that patience like I'm I need 20 30 more years of wealth creation like a lot of people ask me why I'm running the business I'm run now cuz it's a crappy business but I'm building the foundation based on all my success I love the process I know what I'm building right like if I have your athletic ability like I'd be in film room and weight room I'll just be putting in the work it's not complicated like you know what you have to do to get there you know you've got your talent we all got it the variable is the mindset of how much work you're gonna put in right and the other thing is taking else I think most people don't know how to take else and like that's a huge part of how I think about it my guy I think my mom / loved me for short like just she told me I had it like that and then honestly just the confidence came from losing believe it or not you know like I think the biggest problem we have in America right now and we've got plenty of problems but like eighth place trophies are [ __ ] us up you know like I I got confidence from taking a ton of losses because then I figured out what I was good at I'd rather win and I kept honing in to that but I wasn't scared to lose you know that was it sneak one in like and also with that being said a lot of us were trying to think away there's a sheep you know with us about scholarship shakes and things like that why don't realize that we won't be playing NFL so we won't be making that big when you come out so we're trying to set a foundation now for the next 45 years to

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I like that throw that out and throw that up what do you think smart and whistles don't have a lot of Amazon like if you just put in Amazon go to sleep you'll be really happy with me that's one but I'm gonna tell you something right now I'm gonna wrap it up and put a nice little bow tie on it you can if they gave you a hundred thousand dollars here and you put it away that's nothing compared to you leveraging the fact that you play for Bama football and you say hello to everybody on this campus telling you right now man that's the [ __ ] game thank you so much man