If I had spent as much time in the weight room as I did designing football uniforms, I probably would have had a free college education.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If football had always been my main goal then I would have gone to some scholarship school; I could have gotten more exposure there.
Before playing football, I didn't fit in anywhere. My parents didn't have a lot of money, which they spent on our education to send us to Catholic private school in Oakland, mostly black. The other kids had more money than I did. I started school early; I was young. So I'd come back to my hood and read.
If I got a football scholarship, I was going to be a football player.
I played football, honestly, to get a scholarship.
If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.
Freshman year, I was 95 pounds and 4 feet 10 inches. So you can imagine what my football uniform looked like - my shoulder pads were bigger than my body!
And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5' 11". So I just picked baseball.
I was the youngest of seven kids and I would not have been able to go to college without an athletic scholarship.
Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.
I wanted to go to college and play football.
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