![]() My wife was telling me the whole time I needed to get a job, but I was like, "I'm super cool, I'm a pro football player." Let me tell you something, I was so humble. I was sweeping a factory all day long for $8 an hour. At a place called Labor Ready, where you basically go there and show up and they give you a job to do with manual labor for the day. Because any time you point out that someone else is the cause of your problems, you're wrong. But you hear a little voice that says, you know what? Maybe it's me. You don't see it, you don't know it, you're alone. This is the deal: To find success, it's in those moments, the moments when you're off. I was like, "How dare he." He is supposed to be my friend.Īnd then all of a sudden a little voice hit me, and it said, "Terry, why are you mad at the only person that helped you in the first place?" So finally, I call him up and I'm like, "Hey man, I need another loan." He was like, "I can't do it." When I hung up the phone, I was mad at him. I mean, I'm literally depending on this guy to support me. You're talking about bad financial management. I kept coming back, asking him like, can I get another loan? And he was like, "Yeah, here you go, man." Probably 10 loans, maybe 15, might be more than that. When I retired from the NFL and I was about to make that move into Hollywood, I had a friend who gave me many, many loans. I have a story, do you mind if I tell you? You start to get shots and get chances and you're humbled and you come back. I think we face many many obstacles but then you start to realize, OK, we don't have any money, but if you're going to be broke, why are we broke in Michigan? Let's be broke in LA, where we're at least around what we want to do. We're going to make movies." And she was like, "OK!" I meant every word. And then after we play in the NFL, we're going to move to Hollywood. ![]() I told my wife when I met her, I said, "Look, first of all I'm going to play in the NFL. ![]() How did you have the belief in yourself and then maintain it through all the hardships? People tend to think that that means someone else, but I was like, no, I choose to think that's me. I'm 1 in a million." That's me.Īnd it hit me that the only way to make it was to think of yourself that way. I don't have the best relationship with my dad, and he said, "You know what Terry? Only 1 in a million ever get to make it to the pros." And I was like, "Dude. I told my my father I wanted to be a pro football player. You know it's funny you would say that phrase. If you could credit your success to one thing, what would it be? CNBC Make It: Only 1 in a million make it as a pro athlete or in Hollywood, and you've done both. ![]()
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