I Played The Game For 20 Years,

Coming From The South, I Just Felt You Had To Work Just A Little Bit Harder. It Was Not Going To Be Handed To You. I’d Get The Letters From All The Major Schools But No One Came Out To Talk To Me Face To Face Until This Small, Dominant Black School, Mississippi State Valley University Sent A Coach Out To Me. I Had A Chance To Talk To Him And He Said, ‘hey Jerry, We’re Going To Be Doing Some Great Things At Mississippi Valley State University And We Would Love To Have You There.’

I Used To Help Out My Father, A Bricklayer, In The Summer. I'd Catch The Bricks (that Were Dropped). And It Made Me Strong, Catching Those Bricks. I Wouldn't Change Anything About It. That's Why I'm Where I Am Today. Really.

Monday Night Football. That Was Everything To Me Because You Get A Chance To Show Everybody What You're Capable Of. It's Only Two Teams On That Monday Night.

They Never Clocked Me On My Way To The End Zone. They Never Caught Me Because I Ran Scared.

I Think Just What My Parents Instilled In Me Was Hard Work And Being Able To Always Go Out There And Focus And Be 100%. I Took That Work Ethic Into The Nfl And Everyday I Always Gave 100% And Never Wanted Anything To Be Handed To Me. I Wanted To Earn It. And Every Time I Stepped On That Football Field During Practice I Wanted To Leave That Football Field With Learning Something About What The Practice Was About For Me That Day...