Short transcript excerpt of Terrell Suggs reflecting on his development as a team leader, crediting Ray Lewis and the Ravens organization for modeling professionalism and mentorship; Suggs describes learning by sitting beside Lewis and 'picking his brain' over about a decade. The segment emphasizes informal respect-based leadership and legacy within the Ravens locker room.
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I didn't, like, you know, appoint myself as a leader and nothing like that. I think it was kind of like the respect from the, you know, my other teammate that I had in the locker room that we. We can kind of go to SIS to kind of lead us, you know what I'm saying? But also, like, I can never not discredit, like, our kind of legacy. Like, I was a good leader because I had a good leader, you know, in Ray, you know what I'm saying? Like, when, you know, you have guys that's always professional, that's showing you how to do it right, you know what I mean? And, like, not only that, like, they love the Ravens organization, they love our team, you know what I'm saying? Like, if Ray, you know, didn't get older, you know what I'm saying? He'd probably still be playing, you know what I mean, in the Ravens uniform, you know what I'm saying? I kind of had. I was under his tutelage, you know what I'm saying? I was under him. I sat next to him for, like, 10 years in the back of the room, just picking his brain. Like, I didn't get, like, you're not going to get a better football mind.