Ray Lewis tells the story of arriving at The U, talks 2017 Miami Hurricanes and more | THE HERD

my last high school game color was against Jamie German with Jack that time was the number one recruit in the nation Fort Myers Florida the University of Miami came to see him play me and Lakeland against top ma we had a Finals game the second round of the playoffs against them they beat us really they beat us that year they punched us up really bad but I had a I had an incredible game and I remember falling on my knees and I cried cuz I didn't know I didn't know what my future was you know if you gonna play college football I didn't know nothing I didn't know nothing and when I got back from Florida State four days before signing day so like it's like late January we had I had no no offer no we're on the table okay and you grew up from a humble background so you couldn't have paid your way in or anything or no my mom was gone my mom was living in Tennessee I had to live other people's it this was life this is my life and who called Dennis Erickson call the University of Miami for today I mean Kathleen high school four days before signing day and he said and the coach called me to the office and I walked in and I got the coal mine so I don't get emotional because this moment really changed my life this is great and I walked in to the office and he was crying and he looked at me and he said it Miami just gave you a scholarship and I was like what and he was like yeah like the University of Miami just gave you a full ride scholarship and I was like coach are you serious and he was like they saw you play your last high school game this is and the way you play got you into college for days man I gotten I got in the car I had I have one pair of jeans I had three white t-shirts I had one pack a number two pencils and I had two folders and that's how my brother dropped me off with which one of those was the food stamps she said it's all I can do I said I'll make it yeah man and then and that's why my roommates you know or a little Trent Trent Jones Rohan modeling dumb boys but my roommate who was you know killed and stuff in college but they they took me in like like you had never seen them out to be taken in like you know I didn't have clothes you know so I had to share clothes you know an accident where they gonna make me cry no man it's just you know that's what you've always been I I've told you I can't even tell the story or all straw crying on the air I asked Dilfer over a glass of wine about you and he started crying and bill Romanowski is one of the toughest guys in the world and I asked him about you and he he couldn't continue the story so everybody I've asked about you they can't like Romanowski stuff and Romanowski just like stop talking Dilfer started crying mm-hmm because when you live a life of I mean you were sharing clothes by the way and I and I say this as your friend was an embarrassing were you how did that land for you yeah it's cuz I was always that I was always the kid that was like um I was always picked that cuz I've never had anything like we were my mom mom gave me away for a few years because she just could not afford me she was like I cannot feed you I don't have things to do for you so and I was like mom well you got to stay in Tennessee this is what y'all want to do but you you you introduced me to God so he's showing me something else and I'm gonna make it and she was like you did you think about so you go into the NFL you're you become by year five or six your aid really like becoming one of the icon to the league like how much did that buy your eight nine ten is that still part of your DNA it never did and never leave that's why I don't poor never leaves man never man you leave even now I'll talk to you about financial stuff and you're like not a big spender and you put money away and yeah poor never leave I try to tell my kids this I said you guys will always be disadvantage to know what hard work really is and really is because you don't know what it feel like to have absolutely nothing so we're the only thing you have are your morals I sit and that's the only thing will get you in more stories I'm telling you the people I met from high school to college the honest guy having truth the people that I found later in life remember two things about me I always smiled and always gave a firm handshake I know like every coach every person who's ever met me say the same thing and my uncle I'd never forget he's always telling me he's he told me there's one line he says I don't care if you have a penny in your pocket make sure you look good and make sure you smell good and somebody will notice you give you a chance yeah I guarantee somebody give you a chance and that's been my motto man for a long long long one of the more popular players that ever play this game Ray Lewis so you'll be in the Hall of Fame in fact the very first time I brought you on the show Hall of Famer Ray Lewis and I'm thinking he's not eligible yet I just pretty much already got you in the hall do you think you'll cry when you stand up there it would be hard not to because everything that I've always did I promised my mom that I would do it but she couldn't understand it my mom my mom has always been my best friend like she's my she's my best best friend there's nothing we don't talk about there's nothing we don't go through together I grew up with her my mom had me at 15 and she was on her own so the moment I can't sit here and talk about her alone without expressing how I really high emotion or I really get my mom yeah and that's why I love this so much because she did not let me choose which way I was gonna go my mom hands heavy heavy and she's the hit you in the mouth and she's yeah she was she was really physical towards me but that's the only choice she had right I didn't I didn't have a father so Pop's wasn't around oh he is now but he went around in and so I think the day I get up there man I that when I started writing my speech I'm gonna tell no matter what it is but I started writing a certain part of it and I had to stop and I and I grabbed a cigar and I walked outside and I grabbed me a nice drink and I said I just got to sit down yeah because this is like wow like wow like cuz it's hard to tell your story that's why when I wrote my book it's hard to tell it and then somebody directly lived it sure and I lived it and so yeah man it will be I will say this though and I want to say this week to get it off of me right quick so every guy that's going all of him definitely LT the the times we had with each other Lawrence Taylor I know LaDainian Ola Dini all going in tomorrow you know him well oh my gosh oh my gosh like we grew up with each other Jason Taylor like you grew up with Laura LaDainian Tomlinson like when I say grew up like we was in the league oh do you I remember doing it I remember doing a topic mm-hmm at ESPN eight years ago and I said and I ranked the NFL players and I had LaDainian one in u2 and I said best players and cuz Brady wasn't it this was not Brady wasn't Brady yet and LaDainian Tomlinson people forget was virtually a perfect back my good he could block everything catch my great locker room never fumbled never hurt people forget how for about seven years we used to play each other man and every time we used to play us and I you know it was me on the bottom of the pile he always said we I know that's you you're the only one that can make that play LT I'm not letting you get loose I'm not congratulations to those guys he was about the best player in the league for about a six-year stretch yeah yeah I mean he literally zhilie no flaws easily easily by the way speaking of Miami I told Michael Irvin the Hurricanes look like they're back we had a number of recruiting class right now that's Margaret Margaret guy I went down there spoke to the team I'm at his big camp a year ago correct yeah and and and I'm telling you the energy that he brains the connection that he brings to the kids that's what we've always had in Miami yeah and that's what I think over a block of years we started getting away from that but he's like he's invited all of the guys back now and that's what Pete Carroll did yeah when Pete came back to USC Pete's thing is I gotta use these guys Paul Hackett not so much a little reluctant first of all Mark Richt is one of the really genuine PBS he really is he's a real talent he really really is he really really really is we are with me me me SAP Michael II read missing one but all of us will be honored in the Ring of Honor at the same time in universe in Miami when I want to say October 12 this year yes this year October 12 I want to say that's exact date I'm not totally sure the ad called me a few days ago to do that but it was the second-best player on your team the last year you were at Miami the second but you were the best player who was the second-best player on your team your last year at Miami last year Miami 95 man I couldn't say who was the second-best you know I mean it takes I get from that just nobody's listening right now James on that team no no this boy's younger than me they were babies when I was doing that um there's an offensive lineman it was good yeah there was a lot of guys that were good that year we had a bunch of guys come out that year oh my god with Ferguson come on Atlanta mm yeah oh my gosh look at those pictures of you man stop it look how small moms are you look you do look more wiry there yeah was did you weigh there about 205 what do you weigh now about 255 would you play at 260 god I would hate to get hit by you yeah I'm like a leg life no seriously no I mean if I was a quarterback in high school I'd cry I would no I would just stop I would just take my helmet off and I'd look at you and I'm like I'm gonna cry you told you talk I know I'm not tough enough you told me what hey breezy ok breezy ok breezy hey breezy [Music]

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Length: 11min 33sec (693 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 04 2017