Transcript excerpt from a YouTube dialogue where two speakers reflect on how parental example, community (cousins/uncles), and school sports taught them a strong work ethic, discipline, and the habit of working consistently—one day at a time.
My mom and dad went to work.
Rain, sleeping, snow.
And when you're a kid, you don't. You don't know, man. You like, man, we don't got enough. We need more. But my mom and dad and I.
Had way more than I needed.
But when you're a kid, you just don't know. My mom and dad went to work.
Rain, sleep or snow, they.
Didn'T complain.
They didn't tell them to go to work. They went to work, man.
And, you know, kids don't listen to nothing, but everything we see, everything we.
See, we go.
Do it without even thinking about it. So that's where my hard work kind of came from. And then, of course, you know, getting around my cousin and uncle and then.
Getting around.
Guys, you know, at Bamberton High School and starting to understand that.
Man, I gotta work, man.
I gotta work. And, you know, sport teaches you how to compete, how to work hard, and.
How to be disciplined.
So along my journey, man, I've just learned that, man, I gotta. I gotta work out of work, I gotta work one day at a time.