the Joe Rogan experience do you like that's a part of your motivation yes it's always been that way but you're also your motivation is obviously excellence there's no way it could just be to prove someone wrong as hard as you work no but that's just that's how I got to the mentality and the work ethic I got cause in high school I wasn't like this I sucked in high school I way I didn't win a match those sophomore in high school we have a resin since third grade like I was asked asticus I was horrible
like why got be one time the coach left me a baby left they load the bus and left me sitting there because you got beat up beat yes they didn't want to bring you home it wasn't I got beat do I got lost to a girl Joe oh you lost so girl dad ass I didn't have them into a lot now my god Matt team was gone when outside the bus was going on reason I got home because the varsity came for do it at night and he was like why are you still here oh
that's [ __ ] yeah yeah that's how ruthless coach but that's the thing I wasn't I was that boy like he got the little boy that cried wolf you know I was always trying to get out of workouts I was fat I was lazy at the time growing up I loved the outdoors but I love video games I love eating junk you know I didn't always have this mindset so when I came to the point when I wanted to do good and I was trying to took my first injury my very first injury sophomore in
high school before Congress I snapped my ankle cleanser and I remember every bite when I was seeing her hurt first of all I was actually hurt but I had fixed so many injuries even a coach came up I'm like telling ya I was faking everybody's gonna suppress you get up because they all thought I was faking but I was actually hurt and my buddy stopped by he grabbed me and she was his trainer in the trainer's look like I was probably surprised he'd be fine when's the doc my dad camera guy in winter he did
the x-ray I'm up there was like this much mo holding my foot from fall awful they like ankle is like pretty much shadow I know buddy bring you in like they kept saying it was nothing wrong you know I went back to x-ray that's all I call broke we're so sorry like you have been like for so long so the residence third great you know I did it because my brother did right I wanna do everything he did but I have the drive he had but after that scene the way everybody kind of dogged me
out I remember coming back from recovery from that in the first time I ran after injury and even in my monic I can't race I can't run it and I did not live it and I was scared I was gonna break again but I made it to where I was going I think I can do this this it's all here now that's my real everything comes mentality like I never had any problem I was just lazy I didn't want to works I was fine the way out and that's that the next year you can ask
the coach they told my parents I got Buddhist varsity tournament what the first second match and I catch a second and third anniversary term after wrestling JV for the year before and I lost God I wanna think the differ between court now is night and day is because I realize if I put my mind so he just worked quick weren't my dad said it to us think my dad pushed on so yeah at such a young age my brother got it he was a star athlete but he didn't get the openings and the opportunities I
had you know because he was always working for my father and working here working there he had the time to do camps know that me being the youngest it was a little easier for me I seen what he did what he told me what my brothers my sisters and teammates and all different people around me had done under the way I needed to go to get somewhere but being a star athlete as a professional athlete was never golden mine I wanted to be engineering I love building club houses and [ __ ] like that house
what I wanted to do but all that open doors I wanted to go to school to university Wisconsin Platteville for engineer program but just like sports my grades was ass I didn't I didn't try on so I went there to hang out my friends and be cool right yeah I mean when I applied they invested me back saying your GPA isn't good enough the wrestling coach wanted me there because by the end I was good and Russell my last year like kills you I never made the state but I killed in the regional and sections
I want all the sections and lost in the finals you had to go you had to win their third whatever but um and I said you can't get here but you I go to junior college you get your GPA up we can get you in again I went there I didn't plan on wrestle anymore I loved wrestling I cry when it was over but you know a guy David Clinton Matt Hughes his old coach that's how I met Matt huge through Lincoln College he reached out to me I was like I heard a buzzer you
got the mentality of a war like you work all your workhorse I need somebody like you to come here and work for me I can't give you a scholarship because you didn't do much I don't have money left I give you 1800 bucks those 27,000 I thought I was like a full round all some good money you know I went there excited determined to get there but like a ha you made of state you're not gonna do good this is this so again that was motivation from right there going to school like they don't think
I can do this date my grades aren't good enough they don't think I can get education I'm not good enough at sports I don't think I'm all-american you think I'm a gold and just be another member of the team I went there I cut up but right before his season snapped my leg in three I thought it was over again like I saw you fire a different leg injury that same the same leg with different injury like three years bring it back to the first one dot injuries what changed you well I got tired of
people thinking I was faking so because you were injured for real in people thought you were faking it you realized something was wrong I feel that I realized I have been lazy and my father's my whole life you go to my old house right now in the garage it's steel carved in there I never forget day I was probably like 8 o'clock 9 o'clock school night my dad woke me and my brother to help him do some stuff on the boat we tired you know we want to go back we got there complaining the whole
time he said shoot my dad if you met my dad is the most motivating person ever don't have an education another but he he saw his own business from the ground up he's living the dream hunting properties but everyone he can do it and that's where I got it from but it took me forever to realize this and I never forget the day says it comes to me all the time I think about he stood up on the boat and was up against the garage door a brand new garage but he just put a you
know one thing I hate I cannot stand he's lazy and he took his drill he could L az1 in the back of his brand-new garage and it's still here to this day I go home and I visit I go Decker and you see it cut and do it lazy and he cannot stand it and if you know him the way he works he's just turned 59 Tuesday and I could in his voice when I said you had a job site aren't you oh he's there working he got a bunch of 20 rows of 30 or
he ought works everybody 59 years old up and down a ladder running the crank driving the truck to shot and that's it he always said when I was a kid st. can only last so long I never understood what he said he was coming to be on the football field I'd be crying and moping yeah it can only last so long so I keep going it only lasts so long I said I always said it started getting harder I think like practice going look at the clock it's like 45 minutes but only lasts so long
it click like oh [ __ ] that's what my dad met all these years just crying just go just go just put your nose and get to it so you have this injury sophomore year your ankle snaps and you realize you've been lazy so what what's shifted in your mind what did how did you change just stop worrying about excuses to get out of practice and it was it a graduation as I was healing you know I was on bed rest for a while it was so bad and people come in and out my brother
used to come over at time he's playing football whatever and watching his games it's just like sitting there for so long away from all the sports and all your friends are just sitting there just yourself I just realize like I've been doing this and start great I've seen the stuff a million times I know the moves I just don't apply yeah I think when I get back if I actually start trying and drilling and actually practicing again the extra workout in I could cut up yeah that's what happened so what was the first step when
I came back it was when that first run I was literally my dad's shop is probably 200 yards from my house and it was raining that's all that's all reason why I rank I don't want to get wet run to the house don't think I like but just like I don't know if I can make it and they're right in that doubt in my mind like why tell you can you make how many what I broke it in what January December and this was summertime so it was long like I had to cast on for
like five six months oh really yeah now I went to air boo it was like it was five six months it was bad and then all right now I got the plate in the screws in there but I broke some of the screws because I was like trying to move in a wrestling stance in my boot and I slipped my head up to tile I'll just admit and he had the little gloss over and I was watching the cars on day and I was like I'm just gonna and my shadow stay on the west slipping
away spot and I slipped up felt it and chew it appears I go across my ankle his snap slide away for all I had to healed again Jesus Christ it was a whole process I was laying hens the two I still got the two long screws that they take out I leave the seven to go up the feet or the tibia but the two long was I supposed to pull out but the middle when I slit they broke in half my bone so that made the bone heal slower because now I was just a little
spot they drill through it opened up like that much that much more so I had to wait for all that to heal before I could actually walk they take the screws out and put new ones in there just so you got broken screws in your hand if you look like I work out my Brio ankles fat is hair that's because the plate the plate in the screw the screws are so long I think we won't the swelling there's different as that other angle yeah let me see which ankle that's a fat angle and that's the
normal one I was pretty fat too oh yeah that's a big difference yeah like I get done training yeah this one is like this because all the blood everything's falling around the screw Wow so does it [ __ ] with you anymore like when it gets cold out or anything everything cuz mints what I mean that right everything in life even what she hates it cuz I tell the other time she had a negative into negative inside don't solve like find the positive in like it's all in your mind but you can make the best
of anything mmm yeah this is nice having like well you could be dead no legs like she got her car smashed I worked somebody hit the side of a tore it all up had to go in a shop like the windows didn't break does like think about it dries and you windows in bro ain't got to be cold think about that yeah it's like many different things you can find to be sad but find the good thing is to find a positive it's gonna get fixed eventually so this ankle [ __ ] with you still
but not enough to stop you another stop yeah and you but does it affect you at all when you kick things the pins yeah they digging I guess I can if they go to do the elbow I got I go to kick the liver and you go to sit on it and like the elbow kind of catch it I feel it but again it doesn't stop me right say [ __ ] 15 minutes that's nothing it lasts so long I'm a bouncer I'll keep going yeah so you get out of the injury you have the
cast on you for five or six months you realize how blessed you were to be able to move around and that feeling once you get your your leg back under you and start moving again what what is the changes you make how do you start to move your life in this positive way well after I made that first job and I realized I'm I'm good like I first doubted myself but I made it because I told myself I can do it I made it here there's no injuries I'm fine and I was just slow and
steady just start having fighting like good too little you got to take down dummies that hang on the wall let's go to our move you know not nothing fastest work hand fighting just kind of grab the leg working my shots in and out in and out in the morning before practice nice to go watch the guys for offseason practice study and then when I came back it was just I have the heavyweight coach that coaching we drill today I mean you guys to meet you yeah coach Casillas I was gonna work but I don't do
a little bit extra stuff and after practice he work with me then the other coach to come work with me and got to the point where like in the morning I was in there before school and I was there after school for practice now stay after work oceans real different stuff they must have been so confused and they would they didn't like the coach is night and day like vimtrek or now is night and day the husband so strange he got this lazy kid and all the sudden he becomes a savage they had when I
go back to the school on visit I was asked me to come talk to his people they call me success story not only was this but I grew up an area where there was no black I was only black family there so we had racism my whole life you know I mean dealing with that so that's another man that was the mid so the ministers of mental [ __ ] of it all like no matter what I did you're gonna be wrong like I was another Corey Anderson - that was even worse and he was
actually a troublemaker so when he would get in trouble he would always come get me out of the classroom like go get food I never did I was a good kid never did nothing wrong put him down officer principal walking like Ron Corey of course is wrong cause every time I remember Corey Richard Anderson and Corey see Anson I'm Corey see who's Corey Richard but they always pulled me in there just because I was it was only a few of us in high school and the fact that I never did drugs just like it was
on the ring I said I don't want to come in and show on shoot with you I wanna smoke weed I never did drugs I don't deny that I've been a good kid but to deal with that stuff I just get pulled over for no reason I had a nice truck stn drops to the ground with Rams and speakers I just get pulled over I mean my friends get putting cousin still occur but I searched the car looking for something I went to college is the same thing get pulled over all the time and teacher
was like every time you late for class you say you got put off like I said on the way here like I'm serious I have classmates and so I'm like no he's telling truth 'no Starks we saw him on side i wrote like he always gets pulled over because nice vehicle black i always think of something you know that's just where I'm from so we're dealing with that and the mentality I finally figured out like I said that's why when people doubt me I think trying to prove wrong because I had coaches in high school
I won't put names on air but I remember even when I was doing good I knew I was doing good because I had let SEMA sex I didn't start you know I mean I lay the starting line man out or beat this guy and this and that and this net and I never got the position or something was around it and then when I came back after I made a us circle y'all remember this like I ain't right here that not only coaching that high school I would say that that believed him it was the
rest coach Marty Casa Mar decals are made everything possible to make let me meet Dave Clem who was my junior college coach who led me to Russ david reme let me to Ben Askren who Tim fader and everything and I've been blessed with the people my life that bring me to Frankie and Mark and Ricardo and I got like the ultimate people around me like my mom says you've always been blessed to have a good circle of people in the one year I had a bad coach in college that's like my mom said we didn't
have so much good don't let this one coach defeat you know I'll never forget him Jason Valle I'll put his name on there that guy that made me the toughest man I could because no matter what I did he wanted to make sure you could break him he had control over me I was 16 hours away from home in South Carolina no family no money he had me on a full ride and he was just used that I got you here you here cuz of me you do this well I'm gonna cut you cut me
in [ __ ] hey cousin hi y'all seen my go get recruited and he put him back on his team you still need a lot you can't do that this is Miss oh it's kind of like I think that's where I got the mentality where I want to prove people wrong because I beat the starter not beat him bad 1301 Twitter I thought be new but you're still not starting what the [ __ ] you make it wasn't I'm off for like I didn't beat him every time when you lost on the first dueling match
spot Ryan time the first week of school not beat him every time but you're not gonna let me start no because he pins people and you only get points kind of like finally he knocks people up and you only win by decision and that's kind of like alright so I left went to whitewater where I met being and everything else again went there the ocean if I was nobody else knew who I was because I didn't get the rest of the year before I was a benchwarmer that killin team but never Russell that's so crazy
killed never was my parents drive 16 hours to watch me duel and he had made me sit the bench the whole tournament if you turn over here like you're not wrestling today my prayers are be there like you're not wrestling it like my job you're not wrestling like you got me eight hours from school my parents drove all yet but what's this guy's problem we don't know I got teammates now and gotta still touch fighting everything and they're like bro you got out of it and like a lot of guys he had them there academically
he like all we're gonna short term short credits you Bliss's and as you gonna do half christ was gonna be at a wrestling so he was just an effect to a lot exist he just wanted to win now is he so like gods were finished a wrestling career they didn't had a crazy graduate i coach any help like what can I do you don't resin for me no more it's like bro I'm only here but I left here our he kept hitting me up like all you keep coming back and next year I'll let you
start next if you beat him again [ __ ] yeah that's like you is that quest I went to the ad office told him what was going on they gave me my letters a trans let me transfer out but I couldn't go Division two like you can leave but you can't go Division two he can't hold you back anyone like that's fine I'm out I left like a month before school and he showed up in my house one day like where I'm at your house like I'm gone bro what do you mean I'm gonna like
I'm done I'm transferring like you can't so I'm in the papers how did you get that like I went behind your back I got it done I'm out of there and Tim fader to coach the Whitewater I remember he put up at my house I almost didn't go back to school cuz he kind of got in my head like I don't want to go nowhere else and waste my last year of school doing the same [ __ ] I can't trust anybody there I took what six the year before an injury but I was beating
everybody you know I lost a d1 d2 guys and so it was like I don't want to go anywhere else and somebody gonna screw me over a full ride but in this guy put up in my driveway when I was working one day hey I'm looking for Corey Anderson I've seen him before I didn't really know much about him we went to the lunch whatever he was like I know your story but thing is I can't give you a full ride cuz of d3 we can't give money but I want you to wrestle for me
this isn't it and like I said when I went d3 nobody knew who I was but I didn't get to wrestle mmm but he knew like we're not ever gonna let you rest for a while so I thought it's you right off the get-go like what well you see my just like no it ain't that because I don't want people to know what we got we're gonna wait to the first home duel and I'm let you lose in the first home drive to number three dude in the country I'll never forget that way because that
you really like what you mean like it's the time you get to come out gave him a singer like you ready to show out like you know I'm ready dog door number three got by like 12 points [ __ ] this kid feels like yes I'm finally home and surely after I met Rose Davie a guy who came from Colorado who coached in Wisconsin he was my heavyweight coach Olympic guy and then uh he brought in been ask her he's how I got in the fighting have been it was just like like I said the
people around you he's just mold you like I'm blessed and thinking about it and it makes me feel good because all the things I've been through and everything it all worked out yeah he's having master dick coach probably it helped it helped me it wasn't about and my coach told me when I sign when I sign like Jose give me a for I won that Cup something to give me a full ride he got Saint Corey and all about the money like it's the most decision your life it's not about the money coach Clint and
Steven Bradley and they both say like it's not about the money core remember is Moses is a most important decision of your life don't let the money fuey but that was that's what it was for me mmm mama you know I went to school as a walk home pretty much now I'm getting full ride office from everywhere and I'm going to the number one school division - they gave me a full ride like I thought that was something when I gotta figure out what he meant I never forget calling both coach like you guys all
right I'm back home now no time for your list now we can go nai I know a few schools I won't use good coaches blah blah blah and I'm just gonna chill and think about it when that coach came in the fact that he came to my house reached out to him he told me I can't get your money but I want you for you and as a leader and I first got that even though he told me wasn't gonna let me wrestle he let me run practice for like the first month because he couldn't
teach it before season got things I want you to like run practice this isn't this because you got that mentality you can help these guys show us you did in d2 number one school you can show us stuff here and I end up being the first incidentally all-american or incidentally finds the school had in 22 years you know I'll let the team and takedowns all up until like the reason the tournament my room maybe even we had a competition going I did a lot of things that most people didn't see heavyweights do the way I
shot the way I wrestled my mentality I was always working I was gonna doing straighten conditioning before practice and before the more like 6 o'clock we I strength conditioning and I got a class that one not be in the gym lifting I don't start your training till three anyone from just me to me and my teammate I'm in my roommate two other teammates and like you said people will see how you doing it and then was jump in before you know it was like six or seven of us working out yeah yeah we was motivating
each other yeah in the bond we had there as a team like I remember getting and everybody's like almost our goal one thing I thought about was Nationals everybody we want to win nationals a wink conference look like what cats talking about conference it's like the first step you got a conference region was always national what about the big pictures I go we would never won conference before you know like we should still want to get nationals I'm like right in two years everybody was feeding off each other we had we had three guys from
the same high school me to 97-80 not our 87 or 84 pounds excuse me and they caught us a high [ __ ] death row cuz I was schooling like death row sugar now you know that's someone got afraid of search history it was like it was so cool to have three guys now in the same school we grew up right down street from each other but we all went separate ways one went here one went there we ended up in junior college together went me and the one guy that in our very last year
we all end up together as a team captains senior years our last time to do it together hoorah we brought like our whole high school were coming all our matches and there's only like an hour from home it was just cool man and I was like I said when I met Ben there and he brought me to this thing and I didn't want to fight again I was I had a doubt in my mind I want to go to that but I want to go back to your high school days when you made that big
shift did you slip at all like you you went from being a guy who was kind of lazy and under-motivated to a guy was very disciplined that it was like night and day but was there ever a time where you fell back to your old ways I mean it was sounds like it took a lot of motivation and pep talk to myself to get out and do something every times like I wanted to instead of go work out go play videos right I was big in a dirt bike and a four-wheeler and like when I
get off the bus you can hear the dirt bikes come to my house I had the motocross track on my back got me in the neighbor he had a freestyle so I got dirt bikes right and I got to blessing me thinking like god I'm about to go do my homework and go do a little workout lift or something and you hear him coming it's like oh I want to go ride instead I want to go ride but at same time like you're a wrestler you're a wrestler figure out the two which one is first
you know I'll let the guys go ride on my track and I'll do push-ups would ever and do my homework whatever will that do just a little something almost like get something if I need a little bit something that's more than the next person right you know by the time my senior year came around it was kind of like I still wasn't all in but I was a little more I didn't get all in until after that second injury in college but entering college was the same injury same less same leg different would you do
this time I snapped my leg and threw how do you Jackson this kid is that I just remember hearing the buzz of wrestling wrestling me and my coach drilling very slow very slow chilling but we have brand new mats so they were super sticky and I haven't ran new wrestling shoes which were super sticky and I remember the drill coach Morris Lehi so we're gonna work to the chain arrest on a shooter single a you get the single back when I shoot a doe but you bump with the hips you snap to you yeah he
grabbed a single day I snapped a foot down he shot Doug when I hit him with my hips I fell back was here a pop-by didn't feel it and he stood over I remember standing over few of us both sides like don't look down where's her don't look down no I might say you don't look you gonna look I look Emma oh it was like point like this and it was down armikrog we got a pool on the other side of door now I'm trying to get hurt no no house one spot three spots so
it's like shooting up your whole leg so yeah it's like all over your shoulders of course like I just went as always I'm just gonna go jump in the water fall in the water I wasn't the most sane kid but first take my mind go find the water just just India and they flipped me over everybody threw up on a punching bag so well nothing to do with the old injury nothing good or completely totally different like four or five inches up from no injuries it just snapped freak accidents like it's a hospice a freak
accident so what do they do then go to the hospital that day and they snap every gotta smashes it back pulls around smashing lawns all the bones up and they put like we're putting the cat for now but you gotta get plates and pans to set this tree and that when I was out for again I was October 27 and I came back after release back January 13th of 14 I was like a little bit before regional and we didn't have a heavyweight all year because I got hurt and the other guys got kicked out
of school whatever so three months ish yeah neil fat well I wasn't back but I was cleared to start drilling never begging a coach like coach just let me come back I say it was six points because every time when we got on a restless automatic six did they have to put plates in your shin I'm I'm side on my leg I got a plate you can feel it if you bring your head up Donna it's like all bent up and from now all the wars and [ __ ] kicks and wrestling it's like all
wobbly bent war holds all kinds from getting kicked getting kicked in it from wrestling people do foot sweeps you ever get a look at x-ray of it to see what it looks like I have an x-ray forever actually see what it looks like pretty bad but now I'm in my first tournament when somebody foots with me oh my goodness that feeling like having an underhook and he kicked that plate and I just fail I didn't kick my feet I just fell because it's the first time you feeling that pain strip you've never felt it when
you're nervous went up and down that so in the hit and everything just [ __ ] I just felt he came I was like close like what's not like yo my leg game I'm still in the mat like I don't know what the [ __ ] happened like your nerves transform like you got nerves on a side of leg it right at the plate we did probably kicked it Ryan hit the plate you know another thing I had to get him on my I said like this is gonna happen often you just gotta bear to
toughen it up and just go through it yeah you have an extra vulnerable spot now yeah yeah and have you been low leg kick there a lot yeah yeah a Lehrer fight he did it like four times spot low Leakey it's just like I said I got the point now I'll just deal with it that was in 2007 this is 2019 it's 12 years of Dylan Lee you get your point where it's kind of like it's not really a painting was just uh just a pesky injury you got it some of those injuries they'll go
in after it's healed up and take the plate out they said I can't do they want to do that but to do that cuz I got the broken pins mm-hmm cuz those pins are broke they got cut like a whole section amelie will hear me and I'll be out of commission for a long time no like I'm used to it now is there any benefit if they do that I get my whole leg back I gave my leg best only benefits like I said I can train right yeah yeah like this is gonna bother you
like I deal with it yeah when I retire we do all that but right now there's no problem Wow so you have this shift in high school you you make it to senior and you're a different person night and day but you're still not the Corey Anderson of today mm-hmm so the second injury what is the second injury do for you when you snapped it the second injury that was just I mean that just motaz I didn't get to show what I can do it motivated me that much more that when I come back I
got to be undeniable I got a show I got a do like nobody knows I can do because I didn't make it to state my senior in high school right but then we went to team state and not pin that got it took fourth and state so I knew I could do I just didn't make it there so when I heard my freshman freshman year I was going that was the year I was gonna show people Korean which I used to know what you think this is miss then I got hurt I kind of set
me back you know it's in my mind I was very I was sad like I'm in being at home I was emotionally sad but when I went to go back and I couldn't focus on wrestling I spent mine on schoolwork that's when I figured out I can do schoolwork I finished my freshman year with a 3.25 GPA after missing like three four months had to make up everything and take tests and that's not I realize like I can do that too so that was more thing I got the thing I got out of that injury
not so much the athletic part I was more motivated to work even harder next year but I found the fact that I can do schoolwork if I want to again it's just a mental thing mmm I have to take the time to study I've never I had never studied before that ever didn't do any homework it was I borrow somebody's homework or take somebody's nose and try to fill in answers just to get something to say I was a completion credit but when I had nothing to do I couldn't wrestle I couldn't you know I
couldn't run I couldn't go play basketball in the back but everybody else it was not only back focused on our school at the time I came back my GPA dropped like to point something because I hadn't been in class for so long so I had to get all that up if I before the end of the year and finished with a 3.0 at least I finished my 3.25 for that was my to make academic all-american was my that was my highlight of my freshman year I didn't get to wrestle all-american but I had two academic
all-america that's I something I can work on because as a kid my parents she's my mom and 8th grade bet me a hundred dollars I wasn't graduate my own mother and she's my mom my biggest motivation ever before my shop before my son came here my mother was the hand that pushed me over everything she's always my dad comes to work ethic my mom is always make sure you do things right you can do the assistance always help me my struggle with reading she's helped me learn how to read fast or read better and do
things to the best of my ability in the academic core because support some hard work it's gonna be there but education is something can always fall back on so but how it's just so bad and I lived next door to the middle school cells back to eighth grade year they opened a new high or middle school up the street for my house so I messed up from school don't do homework I don't know why I think I would get away with it I'm getting to class my mom said principal's office done for a walk for
they call that cording goes home working in because she was on it she was calling of Corey myself at school called me she had me a summer camp I had to go to summer school one year when I passed all my classes because she wanted me to get that fact like just cuz you pass they let you pass I mean you did good you pass this you're gonna learn how to work you're gonna but that was nothing I didn't have the mentality that my mom wanted half when it come to working for academics and stuff
so what made you do that what was the shift that caused that from the the injury ii said i had to focus on that i've become a bum at the school of cinema room skipping class and fell out so i had to get my grades up if i want to wrestle next year so it probably been something that was bothering you already it didn't bother me doing athletics the way it's kind of like the movies have you competing and they know you're good your assets a team the teachers help you they try that they don't
give you but they'll help you out take you got questions ask questions they won't fail you right you know if i begun do everything they can to make sure i learn so were you realizing because the injury that maybe your athletic career wouldn't be there and you need you need to get this education fighter because not and have the help i had in class when i was a sweet they helped me a little more but not i'm not wrestling it's kind of like my GPA doesn't matter for the team anymore and i have been missing
from school for so long when i came back it's kind like now i got a lot to make up for has got do it on my own I was studying that's all I had class and my dorm room from that point on from that injury then you you get your academic work in order and you start being disciplined in all our areas of your life and you feel like that carried over your athletics is grow thing works together yeah everything works for one thing yeah about that okay like first thing we learned at orientation college
coach comes we going room like guys we got your athletic scholarship but she here as a student-athlete and I remember going back and coaching at the same College and him giving the same speech and he write on the board student athlete when I'm making a two parts first part student second part athlete so they don't write on the board what does this mean so first priority school after that next priority athletics to me after that you got your family then is making sure you stay out of trouble and the last thing the very most important
thing and to come to college is just social life the rest of that everything else comes first and at the end then you were a bunch of friends and trying to be cool and on exercise you know you I'm 17 when I went to college I graduated high school 17 so I'm young I'm not even an adult but in my mind I'm on my own I'm doing what I won't blah blah blah I'm showing out I'm being an ass you know right not like getting in trouble but not pay attention to school not worried about
court student part I'm just athlete I'm they're not gonna fire a scam struggling and they trying to help me out and you know about no they're not gonna give me a F because I'm I'm trying I really wasn't I'm asking questions I'm sitting in front of class so you're not gonna give me a F but they're gonna make sure I don't I'm eligible to wrestle but I'm not gonna fail right so when you get Angela you realize that ain't there no more because you ain't got none to wrestle for you all school now so now
you got you you can't say I got practice so I can't I can't study was not a big eye-opener for you when you realize that you can do good at school too cuz in your whole life when you didn't try yeah you didn't care and it had that no child left behind pretty much before they major Fisher thing it was always there god no I didn't do enough in school but somehow I graduated every year somehow I graduate because there's always one teacher one person I looked out for me I guess I've been blessed to
have that and middle school is Miss Bernette to this day we still talk I go home we have lunch breakfast whatever really yes if it wasn't for I probably dropped out of high school that's cool yeah that's very cool [Applause]
