Terrell Owens on Destroying the Status Quo | Impact Theory - Zweisprachige Untertitel
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Alright, today's guest is by the numbers one of the greatest NFL superstars of all time.
And his road to superstardom is all the more inspiring because it was a less-than-traditional path.
He up in a tiny-ass town in Alabama, I looked it up, it is tiny.
And while he had a solid high school career, he didn't exactly like the world.
He wasn't heavily recruited and didn't even see himself as having a future in the NFL until his senior year in college,
but he was hell-bent to make the most of the opportunities in his life and prove that with enough desire,
dedication, and discipline, you can go anywhere you want to go.
And baby, did he ever go.
After getting drafted by the San Francisco 49ers, he said about smashing records and making a name for himself.
In a world where the average tenure in the NFL is roughly three years,
he clocked 15 years, going to the Pro Bowl six times and being named and associated press all Pro 5 times.
With 1,078 receptions, 15,935 yards and 153 touchdowns, he is virtually guaranteed to be inducted into the Hall of Fame.
In addition to his unbelievable success in the Gridiron, he's also a best-selling author who's penned an autobiography this and a successful children's book.
Additionally, he's a motivational speaker dedicated to empowering today's youth and a passionate supporter of the cause to eradicate Alzheimer's disease.
Please get your popcorn ready and help me in welcoming the man behind the athletic clothing line the NFL legend, Terrell Owens.
Thank you so much.
What a pleasure to have you.
Thanks for that intro.
Dude, my pleasure.
Trust me,
in researching people,
so one of my big things,
writing the intro,
obviously takes a lot of research to find all the nitty gritty stuff about people,
but in that dude researching you is insane what you've accomplished,
especially taking into account what you've said about your own physique which is wasn't about natural prowess,
it essentially about busting your ass to create the physique that you have now and be able to perform at the level So,
talk to us about that, about starting out, feeling lanky, not feeling like you could really do what you wanted to do athletically.
How did you get where you ended up getting?
Man, where do I start?
Again, as you mentioned in the intro, I I wasn't heavily recruited coming out of high school, going into college.
I was just one of a number of kids on our football team.
I four sports, obviously football, but I played basketball around track.
And basketball was your first dream, right?
Absolutely, it my first love.
And I played...
So when I didn't play baseball, I ran track and vice versa.
So me,
it was just,
it was one of those things,
man, as a little kid growing up in that tiny town that you spoke of in the Alexander City, Alabama.
I just wanted to play something, play a sport.
Just wanted to be active.
In South, football is very, very huge.
It's a huge sport that was kind of just a way of the life in Alabama or in the South.
In high, I defense.
I didn't mean to like that very much.
So I like the offensive side of the ball.
So I transitioned into high school, played JV, obviously varsity.
And saw a lot of the guys, my peers, around me that were far greater, far much better than me, skilled.
And, you know, for me, you know, I wanted to be on the field, I wanted to play.
I the guys that,
you know,
I went to class with every day,
joked around with, you know, we battled on the football field, we battled, in whatever sport, basketball, and I realized that I wasn't playing.
And so if I knew, if I had to motivate myself somehow to get on the football field, how was that gonna happen?
And I was faced with a lot of self-esteem issues at the same time, being being picked on.
Before now, before I knew what bullying was, that's what I experienced a lot of that, you know.
And for me, that motivated me really, it was two-fold.
I kind of motivated to get in the weight room because I got tired of getting picked on.
And the same time, it helped me on the football field.
I think it was around my sophomore year going into my junior year and some of those juniors
that were about to turn seniors and the seniors that had an opportunity to go go on and play at the collegiate level.
Our coach stood in and stood in that locker.
room in the weight room actually and he basically said if you guys wanted to you
know be like these juniors or these seniors this is where it starts so that
was my motivation in order to feel like I hadn't you know give myself an
opportunity to make it I knew that I believe you can change though because I
remember when I was in high school and I remember that smell of the iron I
didn't have the sense that I could push myself to a But you did.
For me, being a teenager, I didn't really know or realize what I was doing.
All I know is I didn't like sitting on the sidelines.
You're sitting there watching, being a teammate, watching everybody else make all the big plays, make the big catches.
You got the running back, making big plays, big runs, and defensive guys, they're making the big hits.
I was on the sideline witnessing all of that wishing I could be in their contributing and so for me an order for
to get to that point, I knew that my skillset wasn't where it needed to be.
I was tugging on my coach's shirt wanting to get in,
but he realized as a coach and he assessed my talent at that time that I just wasn't ready.
And for me, I didn't comprehend that.
All I know is I practiced every day, I worked hard, I wanted an opportunity to play.
And it wasn't until really like my junior senior year, again, lifting weights during the course of the year, I knew that I was undersized.
I asked my coach if I could,
you know,
we had an enrichment period during the course of the school year,
where it's like 30, 40 minutes where you could have downtime or extra time to study.
And so he gave us an opportunity and he basically notified the teaching staff
that if we could get a pass to come down to the weight room and lift extra time.
You know we could do that and so that's what I did and my coach then left my high school.
He went on to Explained to the other kids when I made it pro that this is these are the things that I did that enabled me to help me
Get myself bigger faster and stronger is taking advantage of those opportunity
And so anytime he said basically he could walk down that walk down the hall or he could be somewhere in the vicinity
And if he heard any weights or anything clanking in there,
he knew it was me so that was really kind of my motivation and my purpose and that
now as I I really kind of reflect back, you know, after my football career.
That's where I got the desire.
This is where I really kind of mapped out the blueprint of how I became T.O.
And I try to inspire a of kids that really have a roadmap or blueprint to make it to the next level.
what I did and what I accomplished and give them hope and motivation.
So in America, you people that are watching, everybody has one of the three D's that I mentioned.
Everybody has the desire to do something.
But don't know how to really complete,
complete the
the process of dedicating themselves and having the discipline to do it and so
that's what I try to do when I speak to kids is motivate them and tell them like
if you got the desire you got to Match that desire with your dedication and you got to match it with your discipline.
Yeah, I love that and and I was blown away reading your book on fitness
Finding fitness,
which is an intriguing title by the way but the forward from Jerry Rice if I was gonna ask anybody to
To put the moniker on me as a hard worker
Literally of the entire world who would I want to say I was a hard worker Jerry Rice, right that guy's work I is legendary.
It's insane the punishment that he put himself through and how he was able to last for 20 years Yeah,
absolutely nuts and he was effusive with his praise of you your work ethic How hard you went every day always pushing yourself?
So what what is it that you tell kids because you talk a lot about that blueprint for the next level?
You clearly had not only the the desire but the dedication and the discipline.
How did you develop a?
and the discipline to actually pull it off.
So you just said it sort of starts a little bit clumsy.
You know what you're doing.
You've talked a lot about listening to people.
How did you know who to listen to?
What advice to take?
What advice to ignore?
What did that process look like?
When I played at University of Tennessee at Chattanooga,
that's when I started getting a lot of praise from a lot of the defensive coaches from opposing teams,
some of the players just started getting recognized throughout the conference of my play.
I had a guy by the name of Derek Hall, we went to the same high school and so he was heavily recruited.
That's how I got to Chattanooga because they were recruiting him and so for me,
I just basically took advantage of the opportunities that were given to me.
Did you recognize that at the time like,
hey, they're coming for him, but I'm going to crush it I'm going to put on a show?
I did not know at all.
I was just there because they offered me a scholarship.
My mom, you know, she, we came from a low-income family.
So for me, that was an opportunity for me is to, you know, gain an education.
So was kind of like, you know, just maybe secondary to me.
I'm in this environment where all my teammates, they were better than me.
I was like, man, these guys are super fast or super strong.
It's like, how am I going to fit in?
So I realized at that time that I had to get in the weight room.
In order to really feel relevant, I had to get on their level.
And so those are some of the I think outside of everything else that I kind of just Putting forth the effort for me.
I didn't really realize that I was gonna play beyond the collegiate level I just really had no idea what my future held
and That was just that the motivation for me is just
Not being average understand If I wanted to be on the level of the peers that were around me,
I had to do whatever it took to get on that level.
And that was hard work.
And talk about fitness.
Fitness almost like a you.
You know, you can't cheat on it and expect it to work.
I took no short cuts, no I cut no corners.
Again, summertime I didn't have the means to get back and forth to go home for the summer, so I stayed on campus.
I took some summer school classes, I was eating ramen noodles morning, noon, and bro.
We didn't have a lot, I didn't have a lot of money.
I mean, I was doing whatever I could to make it work.
I I was doing,
you know, just running around campus just to keep myself in shape because I knew after my freshman year, I wanted to play more.
So those are the things that I did, you know, again, behind the scenes.
And that's where that discipline comes in.
And that's where it's applicable is because discipline is doing something that nobody And you have to dedicate yourself to that.
You have to dedicate yourself to the craft, understanding that there may be some good that come out of it.
And have to prepare yourself.
And even with my son, I try to tell him the same thing.
You he's worried about himself not being tall enough or big enough or not getting enough playing time.
The only thing that comes
control is the effort that it takes to really prepare himself for when the coaches or somebody gives him that opportunity that he's ready,
not mentally ready but physically ready.
Man, I really hope people hear your message because that is so powerful.
Honestly, before I really dug in, I assumed that you were sort of a natural physical specimen and, you know, just leverage what you had.
Obviously leverage it, right?
No one would ever say you were lazy.
But had no idea that you had struggled when you were younger and that you really had to mentally prepare yourself.
And you said in your book that it all starts with the mind.
And I thought, holy like this guy understands like how to create greatness.
So everything that I've accomplished, man, I'm truly blessed and honored to have been able to compete with the best in the world.
Not many can say that.
And so,
I understand that,
you know,
my message and my path and my blueprint to make it to the next level can definitely inspire,
you know, not just any kid, but anybody, you know, trying to achieve it.
Yeah, I what you're telling your son about.
The thing you control is the amount of effort that you put in and you have to be ready
when the coach calls because if you're not prepared at that moment, then you're not going to be able to make anything happen.
I obviously much has been made about your celebrations and all of that.
But when Jerry Rice who played with you for years and years and years says he came in humble,
he came in hungry, and he worked every day to get better.
Like, that's such...
powerful message.
And I think about, so obviously this show is designed really to help people understand what they need to do.
I the one part of the show that I say every time is that having potential is not the same as doing something with
your potential, right?
So you had potential, but you actually manifested that.
You put in the work to achieve something absolutely incredible and making that your mission as to youth I think is incredibly powerful.
What is it that you think stops people though from, so they have the desire, right?
They've got some level of they want something.
Is it that their desire isn't enough?
Is it that they don't fuel their desire or the least popular of all but something I really believe in, they're not angry enough?
Well, I mean, there are a number of things that come up, that there are mental roadblocks.
I think a lot of people,
you know, they set these goals for themselves and when they then it's discouraging and sometimes you need somebody to push themselves.
Sometimes, for me, I was self-motivated and sometimes other people, they that little oomph, they need that little push.
That's the grind of it all.
But you have to look at the bigger picture.
You have to have belief in yourself,
and you have to have faith in yourself,
and faith is not really just having or understanding that everything will be okay,
but faith is understanding that if things don't go your way,
or if it doesn't turn out the way you want to, it's still going to be okay.
I think it's going to be okay no matter what or do you think it's going to be okay if you
put in the hard-ass work.
Yeah, you've got to put in that work and you've got to understand that it's going to pay off.
You not pay off when you want it to,
but that's the beauty of preparing yourself,
and that's what I try to tell my son,
and I try to really emphasize,
don't worry about things that you cannot control,
but the things that you can control,
that's what you have to manifest,
because when the opportunity is going I I you don't step up to the plate and you're not prepared, who's going to be disappointed?
Not only your teammates or whoever gave you that opportunity is going to be disappointed, but it's a big let down to yourself.
And you're starting to play.
mind games with yourself, did I do enough?
Did I put enough hard work into it?
But if you know in your mind that you did everything that you could do, or you did, then nothing else.
And that's what I did for myself.
I like when you talked about celebrations,
and I got a lot of flak about my celebrations,
and now you look at,
you know, what's going on in the league, it pales in comparison as far as, you know, how they view things.
But for me, I was always being creative.
I finding ways to motivate myself when things kind of got a little bored of mundane.
And again, that's that self-motivation.
If I needed something to motivate me every week to get in an in-zone, that was me coming up with something creative.
Yeah, somebody made a comment about that and I thought, oh my God, that's so smart.
They actually understood.
They think about all the creativity he puts into having the pen in the sock or grabbing the pom-poms of the dance.
They're like, he really thinks about this stuff.
And they said, but that means he thinks about getting in the in-zone.
And thought, you get it, you get what he's doing.
You get, this is an obsession for this guy.
something that drives me crazy.
So talk about self-motivation, you talk about like really making sure you're prepared.
I don't know how to explain that to people.
Like don't know like you.
So physically I am not going to be competing in the NFL anytime soon.
But.
Mentally, I was the same as you, right, so I didn't show early signs of promise.
I wasn't from a business perspective heavily recruited,
like there was nothing about me that anybody was going to say,
wow, that guy's really going to go on to do something, but I was really fucking hungry, right?
So I had, you want to talk about desire, I had desire.
I knew I was going to be successful.
I didn't know how I was going to pull it off.
But when I go to explain to people.
About and people said that you play angry and I don't know if you agree with that But I actually like that description.
Oh, yeah, you got to play with a chip on your shoulder So in terms of the creativity the things that I did that I came up with a lot of it had to do with
Against that self-motivation,
but it was self-confidence at the same time to to go out and pull off some of the things that I did Some of it was premeditated and some of was was was impromptu
For example the Sharpie,
you know,
that was literally on the spot impromptu that wasn't playing Except for right the series before I before I went out there Yeah,
I love that stuff.
I think it's super entertaining,
and I know that you've cut a lot of fly forward, but anyway, I love just the obsession with getting in the end zone.
And what I love about the things that have really pissed you off or upset you is that you've ended up leveraging it,
and you've said, you look, I've played through pain, I've played through people not believing in me, I've played through hate, all of that.
I find adversity does one of two things to people.
go on do nothing.
Or who understand how to leverage that.
And I recently did an Instagram post and I said, I am motivated by beauty and rage and equal measure.
It is, there are things that I'm purely just moving towards, right?
Like I want to bring something beautiful to the world.
I want to help people.
I want to show people how to have impact in their own life on the world, whatever.
Like I'm moving towards something that's beautiful.
But there are other times where either I have a sense of inadequacy in myself that I just won't tolerate from myself in myself,
and then there's times where people doubt me, hate on me, whatever the case may be, and you can leverage that as well.
As somebody who never got in trouble off the field, clearly you found a way to leverage that.
What I was doing is being creative.
So when I'm in that type of environment,
You know,
having to sit out a whole week and listen to all the naysayers,
the things that were being said about me,
I didn't allow that to deter who I was and what I could do on the football field.
I understood that if I went out weekend and we got no matter whatever the situation or scenario was,
if I went out and I planned to knowing that all these commentators,
these analysts,
were saying all these things,
you really testing my character,
really digging at my character,
I knew that if I went out there and I played poorly, that was gonna only validate what they were saying about me.
To put a fine point on how to leverage anger,
would you say that it's a fair assessment, that anger's the thing that lets you do that one more rep?
Absolutely, watching TV, listening to all the analysts, you really just talk bad about me.
I remember those things.
Those the things that drove me to do or get up and work out.
tell me that I couldn't train anymore,
because he told me that my body needed rest,
and when I did have an injury, getting on top of it right away with cutting-edge technology.
Even when I went to the Super Bowl, you know, nobody had ever really kind of heard of the hyperbaric chamber.
These are type of things that,
you know,
from my trainer introducing me to a homeopathic person that basically enabled me to get back on that football field in like six and a half,
seven weeks.
They're crazy with screws and a plate right two screws and a plate doctors across the country
It was I was to talk with the Super Bowl at that time
For for two weeks leading up to the Super Bowl was was I going to be ready?
And why do play through pain like what do you what do you have to do to yourself psychologically to get out there?
Because it wasn't like you were completely healed
but I had
to Mentally trick myself that I was healed
I had enough faith in God above that number one I was going to be able to play and I was
going to be able to go out there and perform on top of that.
So to really mentally block everything out knowing that I wasn't 100%,
I had to tell myself I was a hundred percent and I think certain athletes get into that mental matrix and there's nothing that anybody could do to stop you.
Now do you use affirmations?
I you mentioned them in your book on fitness.
Yeah, I mean I'm always really just trying to stay on edge.
Whatever I need to do to keep that competitive edge, then I do it.
What's something that you repeat to yourself right now?
I think for me it's just really growing up in the south and hearing my grandmother say you know,
that, you know, she recites the scripture of Philippians 4.13, you know, that I can do
all things through Christ who strengthens And that rings loudly in anything that I face with.
How do you translate that into work though?
Because you've always been somebody that the the rubber meets the road with faith Right that faith isn't sort of an abstract concept.
You put it into tangible practice So how have you translated that into like work?
So it's a little maybe more obvious with football but like with Prototype 81 your clothing line having done a clothing line.
I how hard it You said it's hard.
There's a lot of work, a lot of details, and it's A lot of details doesn't quite cover.
I it is insane.
Like I heard that you were involved in picking
fabrics and all of that stuff and you've been very generous about acknowledging your designers and all that.
But like, I know the just obscene amount of details that it goes, like you have to decide zipper style, right?
Yeah, you about that.
Stitch style.
It's understandable.
What you're engulfing yourself into do you treat it like you did football like the absolute?
There's there are things that are synonymous with football that I I use in in in the fashion industry
And so what are a couple of those that that's just really understanding and trying to perfect the craft
You think about all the brand designers that are out there think out outside of the box.
They don't think of the norm And that's how I was when I was on the football field,
so having to educate myself on the different types of fabric has been awesome.
They've been in the fashion,
down in the fashion district, on 8th and San Pedro, Santee, like, you know, understanding what two-way fabric is for.
So walk us through that,
because it doesn't have to be fashion right,
it be anything and you've talked about spending 45 minutes a day to really learn something every day to put in that work mentally.
What is the process?
Because now somebody watching this, they have the desire, they know what they want to do something with their life, right?
But they don't know how to learn about that thing.
They may not even know that that's what stands between them and being successful is learning.
How did that process go for you in fashion?
Oh, it wasn't easy.
It just a start with a book, a web page.
No, I kind of just jumped right in.
It me going to, you know, to some store, grabbing some fashion book and starting, you flip through it.
I'm how do I become a fashion designer?
designer, or how do I get engulfed into this industry?
I kind of just learned, I was kind of just thrown into it.
As a receiver, you know what you're trying to do to become better at that position.
In the fashion industry, it's not so cool.
It's all about just trying to find your identity.
What can you do in the fashion industry to kind of set yourself apart?
Yeah, I what you said about educating yourself through the process.
So continuing on with your process of education, how do you pick the books that you read?
I'm not a real book reader, but again, I'm big on sometimes on quotes.
Sometimes I'm going through people's Instagrams or I may see something on a wall.
I'll screenshot it.
And what do you do if something really hits you a quote?
Do you write them down?
Do repeat them?
Try to use them?
Like how do you make them?
I try to utilize them.
At some point I'll apply it to whatever it may be going through.
They use it to maybe, if it's not for myself, use it for somebody else.
It could definitely help somebody else because I feel like sometimes in order for it to resonate with me,
then there's some type of connection there.
And understand that there are a lot of people that want to know or want to be, you know, TO the receiver.
And along the way, I've used a lot of people's information to help me get to where I was and where I am.
It's just not,
you know,
sometimes people say it's self-made,
but somebody has helped that person along the way,
or given them that push,
that they probably wouldn't have gotten,
or they just maybe have been in the right place at the right time,
and for me, I know that it was really the right people at the right time for me, and I think I've been inaccurately portrayed.
trade in terms of who I am as a person,
and that's what really fueled me and motivated me to go out there and prove everybody wrong when the football field.
Everybody has that motivation.
You want to be pegged or be put into a negative light for anything.
Things happen.
That's just part of life.
react or respond to those things and how you eliminate the mistakes and the mistakes that are being made,
how you make good on those, how do you better yourself and try to minimize those mistakes going forward?
That's applicable to not only just sports but just life in general.
What techniques do you use now to better yourself?
I think it's easy for people to understand when it's a sport,
you go out,
you work out, get faster, watch tape so that you're really learning about the game and your opponent but what are you doing now?
How is that process of getting better as it relates to what you're doing in fashion?
I think just being patient and not really reacting.
I think that comes with maturation, that comes with becoming older and wiser.
There are things now that have happened that I just don't react to.
And find a better way to respond.
And do you think about it in terms of like, okay, this is my goal.
So watching, so the nice thing about researching somebody for an interview is you get to see their entire life condensed, right?
So over the last couple of days, I've watched a 15, 20 year career like crush down.
And I see you go from the brash,
entertainer, crushing it on the field, not to,
I love the interview that you did in your driveway, where you're doing this sit-ups and lifting.
I mean, it's absolutely hysterical.
To now where it's you see somebody being really strategic and saying I'm tired of being misperceived,
so I'm going to take control of my narrative.
much like you're telling your son,
the only thing you can control is the effort that you put in, the only thing you can control is how you react, right?
And that, one do I forget if it's who said it, but there's that gap between the stimulus and response, right?
And you are exists in that and you get to decide how you're going to react.
And I see you really new vision for how you want others to perceive you,
which I think is going to free you up to be successful in a whole lot of areas.
What did that strategy look like as you began to put it together?
Well, it's a little different.
In football,
I could really take my anger out on an opponent versus,
you know, in the fashion industry, you know, if I tried to do that, then that's only going to tarnish, you know.
That's only going to tarnish.
Right.
Right.
It's going to tarnish, you know, what I'm trying to establish with the brand.
So, I think everything that I've been able to establish for myself and my brother.
And I try to embody everything that it is taking me to be successful in football.
I try to embody that and I try to apply it to in a more strategic way in the fashion industry.
My clothing line again, it's going to kind of reflect some of that flamboyancy that I showed on a football field.
out, be able to stand alone and differentiate itself with what's out there in the market.
And order for me to accomplish these things, there are people that are helping me along the way.
Do you consider yourself a good listener?
Yes, I mean, I think a lot of people feel like they're good listeners, and I think the
difference between a good listener and a person that listens is someone that really kind of Listens to understand versus listening to respond.
That's interesting.
You get what I'm saying?
I yeah.
Do listen to respond or understand?
Now, I mean, back in the day, I probably was listening to respond.
That's, I think, that's very instinctive.
For anybody,
if you're going through any type of situation,
a lot of people,
they just,
they're listening, they're not, they're listening, they're hearing the person talk, but they're really waiting for that person to finish so they can respond.
Not understanding where that person is coming from.
Yeah, you have a real self-awareness about that, which as an entrepreneur is just one of those absolutely critical things that you have.
is the ability to know what works best for you.
How much do you think about self-awareness,
about trying to figure out yourself and what works for you,
and how much do you try to change it if you're not happy with your sort of natural state?
Well, I think,
For me,
I know,
in terms of understanding what I was trying to accomplish with football,
I understood that I wasn't as good as I wanted to be, but I could be.
I mean,
you always hear that crease say, you get better every day, you know, I want to get better, but you have to believe it.
You have to want to really get better.
That's why I keep talking about those roadblocks.
It may not happen at the moment that you wanted to, but you got to understand the process.
Everybody wants it yesterday.
If that was the case, then there'd be a lot of great athletes that had played in the National Football League.
But only so few that make it, and there's so few that become great.
I never really thought of myself as being.
a great receiver.
I'm like top three in the National Football League.
Back-end for ninety-two coming out of high school.
It wasn't even a thought.
I I mean...
I need to tribute that to the...
working, building.
Yeah, it's just yeah, taking advantage of the opportunity and you got to recognize those opportunities when they're in front of you.
I just been really fortunate really to have,
you know, it's one thing that you know really kind of believe in yourself, but really to genuinely have people that believe.
That can take somebody through the roof.
Every I'm sure at some point in their life they're going to have those doubts,
but you can't let those doubts overcome, overwhelm really the bigger picture.
And that's with anybody.
You got to realize what your weaknesses are.
If somebody criticizes it.
you take it as a constructive criticism.
And that's what I had to do too.
That's awesome.
I what you talk about the process.
Everybody wants it yesterday, but it's the process.
The process is what turns Terrell into T.O.
It's the process that lets you go from basketball to football superstar.
It's the process that lets you go from underdeveloped rookie to one of the greatest wide receivers of all time in the NFL.
It's process, man.
That's so awesome.
I that.
And then you just got to have fun with the process too.
You got to understand that it's not going to be easy.
People think that it's...
that there's no challenges.
Again, people want it yesterday.
And the beauty of becoming successful, is looking back on it, knowing what you've gone through and appreciating the success and the process.
Otherwise, it's literally like you're going to a job.
And I literally tried to have fun with it.
And that's when I started to become very, very creative.
And was very, very confident.
And when I say that the media inaccurately portrays me as being arrogant or egotistical, it's because they didn't understand me.
And so for me, it wasn't for me to go out my way to try to make people understand who I, who I.
It's up to you or the individual to process the other person.
So for me,
I understand that, you know, sometimes people have a committed understanding of who you are, and they don't want to go away from that.
And the same perception as reality.
In my case, perception is not reality.
Because what people saw and how they viewed me or see me now from what they've heard is not who I am off the football field and as a person.
Nice of a lot of sense.
So the impact that you want to have on the world?
Me now is really good.
Basically, taking what I've been able to build for myself, establishing a brand, an identity
for myself, enabling kids that look up to me to understand what it takes to get to that next year.
Again, it's so crazy that we're in a world where everything is at your fingertips in terms of technology.
So there really shouldn't be any excuse as to why you fail, because everything is accessible.
I'm an ordinary guy that have done some, definitely some extraordinary things.
So I know that,
literally, if, honestly, if I can make it, I can If anybody else can make it, if they apply themselves, and sometimes it's not going to
be easy.
As little kid, as a teenager, I had a lot of self-esteem issues.
I was bullied, picked on, I I got beat up.
I didn't have any girlfriends, no girls like me.
These are things that people on the outside world really probably don't understand that I went through real life things.
My desire was just like anybody else's, but what set me apart was I dedicated myself.
And there was a discipline to me to do the things that guys don't do, they just don't sacrifice.
And that's what I did throughout the course of my career.
And what an amazing result that knowledge and all the sacrifices and everything had to me.
It's just an...
Unbelievable career, man.
I just love the notion of the process.
I think that's amazing Just Terrell, thank you so much for joining us.
Thank you.
Thank My pleasure.
Absolutely and Terrell Alondia my clothing line it'll be coming out next month Right now we have the landing page up.
You go to prototype 81 calm and where should they follow you socially social media wise Whether it's Instagram snapchat Twitter it's at Terrell Owens.
It's one word and obviously on Facebook.
You can find me I got a lot of Facebook friends.
So you have to be accepted.
So, you know, just Just shoot me a message, I'll get to you.
Alright guys, I hope you were paying attention to that episode.
I that I was and the key takeaways that I got from him, this man is a sponge.
He learns and when Jerry Rice says that you put in the work,
you know you put in the work,
the concept of the process and to accept that it's gonna take time,
that you're gonna have to put in the work,
you have to recognize where your shortcomings are
and develop that and look at that and really be able to stare nakedly at where you're deficient,
understand what your goal is and the things you need to do to accomplish that and then just grind it the fuck out.
That's what I love is this guy is not,
you're all American,
natural born athlete who shot out of the womb running 40 at unbelievable time,
he had to build himself up, he had to become something and it was brick by brick that he really turned Terrell into T.O.
It is one of the most fascinating tales of actuating your potential I've ever heard.
It is unbelievable, watch this again, Listen to the things that he gives.
His answers were surprising to me because from a distance, when you look at this man, it seems the prototypical story of God-given talent.
But as you look closer, what you realize is it is the prototypical story.
of hard-ass work and that inspires me.
I it inspires you guys to figure out what it is you need to do to accomplish what you guys want to accomplish.
Terrell, thank you so much for joining us now.
What an absolute pleasure, guys, please give it up.
Terrell Owens.
All right, guys, it is a weekly show, as you know.
If you have not yet, be sure to subscribe.
We're trying to get as many amazing people like this as we can to come on the show and reveal their secrets to us all.
Well, until time my friends, be legendary, take care.
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