Shawn Springs: From the James River to NFL Stardom | Mick Unplugged

I was kind of raised in the south, man, with my whole family and everything. Growing up swimming in the James river, man. I tell people all the time, you want to make an athlete, let them swim in that James river, man. Alan, Alison, Mike Vick, Bruce Smith, Lonzo, Moyni, all them boys from down there. And that's what made me, man. And then mom came back from Germany, being stationed in Germany with that military discipline. Mature now from seeing the world a little bit. And she raised me in PG county until I went to live with my dad. So my experience is wild. My dad was. I would be in a locker room with the guys and spending my Thanksgiving givings down there, and then I'd be in PG county over in Maryland during a school year. And so I got to see the best of both worlds, right? So I think for me, what really shaped me is my experience, you know, from I've seen million dollar homes to, like, hanging out in the hood. Different type of mindset both ways, right? And I went to great schools and stuff like that, so that's kind of the foundation I was set.