Ronnie Lott: 49ers Glory Days & Playing For Bill Walsh | Undeniable with Joe Buck

[Music] [Music] for 14 SE Seasons my guest tonight was one of the most feared hitters the game of football has ever known since being drafted in the first round by the San Francisco 49ers Ronald Mandel lot used the mental toughness he developed as a child to become an NCAA allamerican an eight-time all pro and a four-time Super Bowl champion he would eventually retire with 63 career interceptions 10 Pro Bowl selections and over 1100 tackles but but before he became a Pro Football Hall of Famer did you know he worked at a steel mill during college developed his famous tackling Style by studying boxers was elected to the Pro Bowl at three different positions tonight we'll learn what makes this undeniable icon who he is a man who once said if you can believe it the mind can achieve it please welcome number 42 NFL legend Ronnie lot thank you buddy thank you thank you guys thank you you were even focused walking out here that's the Ronny lot difference that's the focus that I've seen from those eyes peering from behind that face mask all those years yeah I mean I think what's interesting to me about being focused is that uh you're always aware of the moment and um I'm I'm a believer that you got to exhaust all moments in life and I think a lot of times we forget to exhaust all moments and U being here with you and having this opportunity to chat with you and to talk with you and yeah you got to be in the moment you got to really appreciate where you're at right now yeah I I think the story is is so great I mean born in 1959 in Albuquerque I know you move shortly thereafter but you're the oldest of three and and I know and there he is a little Ronnie lot up on the screen look at that that the hair where did that all go the hair yeah I mean and that's looks like an interesting cut you were working back then too oldest of three as I mentioned and and I would say just knowing your story and having talked with your father a kid who grew up in a household that was filled with love and parents who really showed their kids that uh that they were all in with them when I look back at my mom and dad it was constantly the idea of what more can we do for you and I think that when I think about our family and my brother and sister uh it did have a lot of love but more importantly what could we do for you guys how can we help you achieve your best and uh and I think the other thing that's really interesting to me was that you you you have to care you know sometimes we forget about caring for others and servicing for others and I think that being a family member somebody puts us on this Earth we all have that responsibility of making sure that whether you like them or not that you pay your respects to them I love that you used to be kind of the water boy or the towel boy for your dad's basketball team when he was playing in these military wck leagues he wanted you around exposed to those yeah I think I think what he what was great about it for me was I was always in awe in awe of the guys that made the military first team or the military or the all Air Force Team or the all Marine team or the all service team was just an a of people that could accomplish their best in their life you got to Washington at an intense time in our nation's history Martin Luther King Jr's assassinated and there's rioting and and you saw that as a boy and the buildings burning and there was looting and you went into some store to get candy or something and then the cops show up and and you're running away hoping what they don't shoot at you like a lot of things in life you you're run away to protect everything you have and uh as we all know when you're running away to protect everything you have there's a sense of urgency running away from that that fire and running away from the 7-Eleven that had burned down in our neighborhood and to see you know the destruction at that time again what a Mark that leaves what what experience what what did that teach you we fight for the things that we think are right and I think that at that time uh there were a lot of people that said that this isn't right and and in sports that's the essence of what makes Sports so great is that you can find those moments where you can stand and um early on I kind of realized that people do stand for certain certain uh certain causes when you're 10 years old your dad decides to move the family to California I have to show you this picture because anybody who knows Ronnie lot as an NFL player this is a peeee football picture now that looks like a kid that's about to just light you up coming over the middle I mean come on Ronnie that's the look I mean that look never changed so I'm I'm about 10 years old um that's the the San Bernardino Jet and if you guys remember there was this commercial dig buckus had and and my name is dig buckus and my job is plugging holes and and I remember that commercial and so I was was trying to give that look at that time that's your best dick buus that was my best dick buckus moment man is uh for everything I did there's a moment that I can relate to another athlete that showed me how to act what to be like and uh so that was a dig buckus moment at some point football you you know that you can play this sport to a certain degree well I didn't know I wasn't one of those kids that grew up saying boy I'm going to make it in the Pro Sports I was one of those kids kid it was like you mean it's here and the now it's being in the moment and uh so you're not thinking no down the road and oh I'm going to turn this into some multi-million dollar career no so Bill Christopher comes into your life as as a coach early on before USC before the San Francisco 49ers and it seemed like he hit your life at the right time and saw talent in you football-wise that uh that maybe others didn't maybe you didn't see in yourself well what Bill saw Bill Christopher was the high school coach at Eisenhower High School guys and and and Bill put a lot of fire and passion into the idea of playing the game of football the right way where he got us to not be average people but people that were excited about playing the game and he was very intense before every game we would lay in the gym on the floor and he'd had the lights out and all of a sudden the music of Patton would come come on and it would talk about Americans and why Americans win and it would talk about the idea and the quest of why we are able to overcome you were recruited so heavily you had your own mailbox in The Faculty Lounge this is Rialto Eisenhower so uh quit downplaying it I mean these were major programs that were looking at you yeah they were major programs is it fair to say that that you could have gone to let's say a lesser program and kind of been the the big guy the big new guy coming in but one of the appealing aspects to go into USC was that you were going to be challenged that you were now the the little guy and the really big pond I mean football doesn't get any better than USC well you know what I I thought about going to UCLA because I was I was a Bruins fan I I loved John Wooden I loved everything about him and and then going to USC and coach Robinson saying look if you come here you can you could play as a freshman because UCLA and Terry donu said you're not going to play as a freshman you said no way you could play as a freshman John Robinson was completely open to it if you're if you're good enough and you think you have a shot we'll give you a shot and uh to me the the great thing about life is when people provide opportunities and and and and if you could figure it out it make it happen it it can happen and and so yeah I had a I I had a chance to start a couple of games my freshman year I mean what four games in somewhere you're you're starting yeah I'm starting and and and I realized that as as I was starting my my freshman year there were a lot of things that were moving really fast and I didn't know what to expect and think you'd made a mistake picking it was too big of a bite yep there was a moment where I thought man what what did I do I I I I made a bad decision because it was moving faster it was tough and then the last game against UCLA that year um I decided to Blitz the quarterback when you were told to play coverage right when I was told to play coverage it's not a not a good decision um so you freelanced so I freelanced I went in to go for the sack I thought I had John sh I'm getting I'm this close to John shyra I'm about to knock him down I'm going to and he throws the ball to the tight end he catches the ball they take the lead my coach don don Lindsay is like Furious Bob Toledo's Furious they're like what did you do you're you're just lost the game for us luckily we ended up winning the game our fresh my freshman year and um the next day I wait wake up I go in coach Lindsay said you got to apologize I said what do you mean he goes you got to apologize to Willie Crawford I said apologize for what he goes we took him out of the game for you to go in and you made a mistake you have to apologize to him and the feelings that I had at that moment of realizing that I had let the team down I had let Willie down and let a lot of people down and to be humbled enough to be able to go in and say I'm sorry I'll never forget that feeling and I'll never forget that feeling for the rest of my life because that's a feeling that I never I never want to ever happen in my life again because it was just the toughest thing to make a that kind of mistake and to know that um you cost you cost a lot of people a lot of Heartache for for for that one moment I love the idea that after that freshman year you go home you cover the tight end mentally every day while you're working uh on your craft but you also make the goal to one become a starter full-time starter and two get your degree in four years which was you know semi rare uh at that point to do it within the four-year time period yeah I think that the latter of those two of of knowing that as John Robinson said he goes you're a great competitor you're doing everything you can but you're not doing everything you can and I was like what do you mean coach he goes you're not competing in everything you do in life and and I had never really thought about that or heard that and to me to this day that was one of the Great Moments in my my life when John said you got to compete in every aspect of your life and so I decided to go to summer school for the next three years and um because I knew that I needed to compete every day you have a chance to play as a sophomore Michigan in the Rose bow for the national championship and I'm I'm wondering what that's like for the intense Ronnie lot preparing for a national championship game in the Rose Bowl against Michigan uh Michigan was by far one of the best teams that we had faced but playing in games like that I realize that you're in front of a 100,000 fans um it's the granddaddy it's the biggest game of a of them all there it is and you end up as co-national Champions with Alabama senior year you're named Captain by John Robinson I mean you think about you come in and did I bite off more than I could chew everything's moving fast and now you're all American you're Captain you've been National Champion um man this is a tremendous career at USC that I I know you're awfully proud of and should be I'm really just proud of being there at the moment and proud of just knowing I I'll never forget somebody says well you're going to be running for the for the NFL I was like running for the NFL for what they said well you're you're you could possibly get drafted and I was like and they said you could be possibly a first- round pick and I was like what wait you're not even thinking about the NFL or or realizing where you stack up against the rest of the country I I know where I stacked up against the guys that were in college football what' you want to be what were your goals then if you're not thinking my goals at that time my goals were I thought I was going to if I left football I was going to graduate and I was going to go to the um I was going to go to the Air Force and try to be an officer in the Air Force you wanted to follow in your dad's fo St I look when I used to watch my dad put on that uniform and when I used to have to shine his shoes and I have to shine his Bel buckle and the pride that I had to take in making sure that I could see myself and and knowing how and knowing what that meant yeah I I I was going in that direction it had it not worked out had I had an injury but I knew that I had a career in doing that are you more proud of being the number eight overall pick when you came out or of getting your degree in four years I'm more proud of getting my degree in four years and the reason why I'm more proud of that is that to be the first and our family to graduate education to me even to this day is so vital tell us what it was like to be drafted by the 49ers a team that really hadn't been winning for a long time well we didn't have ESPN you didn't have any of the things to watch the draft you're sitting there and you're you know thinking Okay the phone's going to ring and um the phone rings I'm like oh this is unbelievable the phone's ringing so I pick up the phone it's Dennis Thurman he goes man you're going to Green Bay I go what he goes you're going to Green Bay man you got to get that big raccoon coat on and you're GNA have a good great and I was like Green Bay he goes yep and I was like oh my God I'm going to Green Bay he goes just kidding oh my God so that was you know because you had to wait for the call and uh um about an hour later or so I get a call hey this is Dila I'm with the San Francisco 49ers and we're here we just drafted you I'm so excited I can't wait to see you I'm like no way and nobody has any idea what this 49er machine is is going to become what are you thinking coming in what do you want to be well when I well when I first got there I remember Ray rad saying to me hey look Stop Standing in the back of the line I was like but Ray I'm standing in the back of the line because I want to make sure I'm fitting in I don't need to be in front he's like no you're you got to you got to move up to the front of line but there you are in 1981 and they move you to left corner you're an unbelievable athlete but the switch to left corner I I don't know that people understand how incredible that is that that you made that switch what was what was that like and and were you prepared for it and and how did you prepare for the season at that spot the hard part about being in that position is really having the confidence to believe that like I said waking up every day that you got a chance of making a great play and you have a chance of recovering and you have a chance of of literally getting beat every play and knowing that even though you got beat every play you still have to come back those are the those are the moments in your life where you got to believe like a lot of things and you never know what can happen well I I I love I I love where the story ends in 81 and you got the Dallas Cowboys they had been multiple Super Bowl champions you beat the Dallas Cowboys in the regular season that year but people said oh it's a fluke You're Building as the season goes but no it's easy to say now but nobody knew how great this team was going to be and this NFC Championship game just set it up going into this game where are you guys as a young team and and where's your belief along the lines of can we beat this great Dallas Cowboy team well I can tell you going into that game there were so many people that were so pest mytic about that game because of the fact that they had folded a number of times against the Cowboys 49ers and the 49ers have folded two or three times in playoff games against the Cowboys matter of fact I'll never forget this this kid was yelling and screaming in the car and I was like man is it Road Rage or what's going on and he was like beat the Cowboys beat the Cowboys and and and so you had this quest of of can we do it year wow for the San Francisco 49ers to Prevail and to change the dialogue of that relationship and to be able to go out for that decade to be able to beat America's team I grew up a Redskins fan so you automatically didn't like the Cowboys so you know you know over the years how many times I would see the Cowboys beat the Redskins to play against them to compete against them to know the things that I I I knew about who they are and the history of the game to win to then be able to dominate that series um yeah unbelievable for a lot of reasons you're going into Super Bowl 16 as a young team I want to know the level of belief because another layer in this is the great Bill Walsh what did he teach you specifically I've never seen anyone talk about excellence in a way that forced all of us to think about it to the point where it frustrated us it was hard that's that was Bill Bill was just one of those guys that wanted Excellence all the time when we look at the highlights of Super Bowl 16 your first Super Bowl this is a 20 to7 game late in the third quarter and Cincinnati has it inside the 10 um and we want to show part of that defensive series for you guys go again and that's what Forest that's a 6 to 21 they are the the world champion San Francisco 49ers that's pretty cool that's good to see isn't it I mean that was a heck of a defensive stand there how'd that feel that felt unbelievable you got to remember that in moments like that where you're sitting there and you have inches and I always say this is that how amazing that inches Define your life I want to know the hitting style okay right I mean we I know the philosophies and but there had to be something that you were reading studying or is that just born into Ronnie lot the great thing about hitting to me the great thing about hitting is it's a belief and the reason it's a belief is that there's an element inside you that that allows you to be able to understand the belief and I've seen it a number of times where not everyone is committed to the cause of the belief and my point is is that the belief around that is the same belief that we've seen so many great people find themselves working through one of the great hitters of all time is Mike Tyson I never watched the punch I watched his legs I watched his toes because you can see the en energy from his legs all the way through his torso all the way up to his arms and then you could see the punch and you could realize why a guy of his size and his stature could go up against some of the best heavyweights of all time your hits built through your legs and came out you know these kind of oversized shoulder pads I mean nobody wanted any part of you but it it was a full body effort on your part I call it woo the reason I call it woo is because when I watch a game and I see and I see that woo moment it's funny cuz I'm starting to think about it right now I feel like you're going to come across here and just Jack me up um you set out the goal for yourself somebody said do it yeah find out who that was get him out of here right now we have this quote on the wall it says if you can believe it the mind can achieve it I think this is a good time to drop that into this conversation because that's that's what you're talking about I mean the mental side of it and and the belief that you had uh when you were a player yeah and and it's it's so evident with everybody that we come across it's so evident that when you are with a Jerry Rice that worked harder than anybody that's ever played the game so there are a lot of things that that I think we learn about sport that fundamentally keeps us going each and every day and yeah if you can believe it you can achieve it 1982 there's a strike shorten season 83 you guys lose to the Redskins U that's their moment in the Sun and then 84 it comes back around and you know we we have another Super Bowl for this 49 team in the 84 season um tell me about that and and you know you'd been through a couple of down years you know certainly frustrating in 82 but you know where are you as a group and you know there are some who think this you know we're getting into the real this is the crest of the wave for that that first version of the 49er team yeah I think that where we're at is that that 8 83 game of losing that game the way we lost it losing it in Washington knowing that we had a shot knowing that we were coming back knowing that we had all of this you know momentum and and and and to find a way at the end of that game which it was a penalty called on me to lose that game they didn't come back to come back the next season and then play the Super Bowl at Stanford yeah you're playing in Stanford stadium and you're playing on Miami Dolphins team that's got this guy Dan Marino who threw for 48 touchdowns 5,000 plus yards and you are going around telling the media oh we can't cover these guys you're you're like playing mind games before the game ever starts you're telling everybody oh we got no chance we can't it's a great Miami Dolphins this is danam Marino we can't cover these guys I mean that's hilarious to me playing a little gamesmanship but as we all know when you think of that team and you think about what they were able to do that year I mean they were phenomenal I mean the 0 the Bears couldn't stop them I mean there were a lot of people that that really had a tough time playing against this team and I think what's interesting to me about Dan and and in the quest was Dan was one of one of those guys and still is when you his will to win is phenomenal you talking about a belief I I just knew that every time I would watch film on him I knew that there was going to be it was going to be a long day and the long day was because of the fact that we have to find a way to get to him so it's it's interesting because early in that game no I was thinking like uh oh and like like I said maybe we can't cover mind games and it might be true true exactly so that's not a good start that's not a good start that's when your booty hole was really tight is not a good start what specific adjustments did you guys make I think we had to in that game we started playing a little bit more manto man we started forcing ourselves to get up on them as you saw they were running wide open I think we we we came out with this thought of maybe we could play zone defense and clearly playing zone defense against Dan and knowing Dan like I know him it is very difficult to play zone defense he'll find holes he's going to find holes and so in a game like this we had to change the we had to change our coverages we had to change the complexity of what we were what we needed to do to win the game let's see how Super Bowl 19 ended a lot of time had to hurry as a safety Blitz for the 49ers is on frustrating afternoon for the dophins and headit Coach Dona Super Bowl 19 is in the record book I feel like there's like two incarnations of the 49ers but is that is that the best team you were a part of it's funny because I think that was the best team and I've had friends that have said no that's not the best team you think think of the 88 team now you're talking about Jerry Rice and that group but I think this team the 84 team was the best team and the reason I think it was the best team if you go man to man and you go down the roster and you look at all the great players that we had all the talent we had on both sides it's it's it's a really great group of collective athletes who really cared about being their best what's your dad saying about all this success and and where is he on this ride with you well I think Dad at this time is sitting there probably going I don't understand all of it I'm having a lot of fun the great thing that people don't appreciate is that the fun that your parents are having or the fun that your family's having in our case was a little bit different and the reason it was a little bit different is that we had this incredible owner and this incredible owner that we had had a way of allowing every member to feel like they were so important to the outcome of the game because Eddie debaro before he was a giver right he was a giver before every Super Bowl he would buy or give or hand out to every family member something and I'll never forget my mother saying I this is unbelievable I never thought that anybody cared to me and it felt like a family right it felt like a family more importantly he created this idea of being accountable to each other all the time all the time in every aspect and what what it created was everybody wanted to come play for the 49ers 8 5 you moved back to safety and uh I'm wondering what I I know you had a shoulder injury that was involved in there a little bit but what what was the driving force to get you off corner back to safety we played against the Miami Dolphins earlier in 85 and that Moore kept turning me around like a like I was a little spin school and he kept getting me out of position and I realize and and the coaches realize that my corner days are over with and so that changed the Dynamics of our group to the point where you know a year later two years later now we have a whole new secondary one of the great things that Bill Walsh was able to do from 84 to the 88 Super Bowl was he was able to literally changed the whole team well fair enough to say that bill didn't fall in love with anybody over the years it's fair enough to say that bill didn't fall in love with anyone yeah um he was willing to say goodbye yeah he was willing to say it but the the great thing about a coach is that if you think about any great business you have to be able to say goodbye to some great employee you have to let somebody go even though when when they're not ready and Bill was one of those guys that would say look I know I'm going to have to cut you before you're ready but it's going to happen and that happens in sports where you have to let people go and yet this dynasty that bill was trying to build was about allowing others like Jeff Fuller like Chad Brooks like others that come along and hopefully take take that role on to be champions so in 1988 you call it the season from hell you start out roughly six and five it's the young Montana quarterback controversy is starting to really take shape um that was a tough start to that season that was a tough start for That season and the the reason why it was a tough start is that in the 87 season Joe got hurt we're not really sure if he's going to make it is he going to be around and now we got a quarterback controversy and we got a quarterback controversy because Steve Young finishes out the year has a great playoff game tries to bring us back and we go into training camp and and and I know this that training camp was uncomfortable for a lot of people well I mean my God you've got the great Joe Montana you've got Steve Young who's a Hall of Famer himself eventually where did you stand on the Montana Young tug a war well it's easy for me and the reason it was easy for me was that it's easy to stand on the side is on the side of Joe and the reason it was easy is that Steve at the time was still learning the game and still trying to grow in the game and eventually we get to a point in and I think we end up losing to the Raiders and we lose to the Raiders and was and we and and after that game we decided as a team if you're if we're going to lose we're going to lose because somebody beat us not because we gave the game away who stepped to the center of that room who led that conversation am I sitting near that person well in in in that at that yeah at that moment that that moment the reason I felt like I had to say that is that we were going down and we were going down for all the wrong reasons we were going down because we were distracted we were going down because we didn't care we were going down and we didn't even realize that we were going down because fundamentally we didn't care for each other and so we decided quickly that if we're going to lose Let's Lose exhausting every moment Let's Lose giving everything that we possibly can give give and it worked I mean think about where you ended up you went from that literally a divided locker room physically a divided locker room into the Super Bowl and your opponent is Cincinnati again and they have a running back by the name of icky woods that I guess the younger generation now knows is somebody who spikes meat in a supermarket but back then he was this serious big- time running back and and somebody that you said going in we're not going to see any icky shuffle uh in this upcoming Super Bowl well I can tell you this I want to make sure that iy Woods knew that I'm gonna respect him but he's gonna respect me so he sees you in the hole or more I guess said properly you see him in the hole and we will see a woo hit in these highlights of Super Bowl 23 35 but the first impression words by dick enberg so you got another yes but you heard dick enberg say on the way out we wonder if that ride that Bill Walsh was going to take on the shoulders of players was going to be his last and it was it was his last and I think what's amazing to me me was here was a guy who was at the Pinnacle and I remember sitting there talking with him about all of this and I know that he wished that he hadn't were you disappointed with how he left I was disappointed with the fact that we never really got to say goodbye that we didn't really have a way of saying goodbye it it it's tough when people decide in their how they handle their closure and um it was tough at the same time George Seaford was going to step in his shoes and and there were other people that were trying to step in his Sho in his shoes and a lot of us was we were pulling for George we wanted George to get the job he was a right guy he was your position coach he was my position position coach but then he was also the defensive coordinator we all felt that he was the right guy and he steps in and and takes us back to the Super Bowl we were on a mission and the reason we were on a mission because we knew that if we don't get back to the Super Bowl then this is all for not that that Super Bowl was about Bill it wasn't about our team it wasn't about about all the things that he had built the culture that he had put in place so so somebody on the outside could read it like you're saying well we wanted to prove that we could win without Bill Walsh and you're not disagreeing with that but I think for the right reasons you wanted to prove that you could win without Bill Walsh because of what Bill Walsh had built over the years and with his exit your success doesn't leave with him all of us was on this quest of saying hey man we respect you Bill but we respect you because you gave us so much and you gave us so much that we have to find a way to live up to his Excellence well that next year you do play in the Super Bowl with George Seaford as head coach you do win it after Bill Walsh has left I mean it's a blowout uh 55 to1 was the final in that Super Bowl how'd that feel I remember running off the field after that game and Guy McIntyre says you know what that wasn't our best game that was not our best game and I I remember there I remember sitting there looking at him saying you know what he's right 55 to 10 in the Super Bowl was not your best it probably wasn't good enough for Bill at that that day even though it was an unbelievable game it probably wasn't our best game now you have a chance for a three Pat in 1990 and the way that season kind of unfolds I mean you get off to a great start the Giants get off to a great start the New York Giants kind of became this rivalry de facto rivalry in the NFC and the two teams meet that's I mean my God a three peat in the NFL is just insane hadn't happened yeah doesn't happened there was so much on the line going into that game so much that we were trying to accomplish so much when you think about the history of of football so much that you're trying to do to separate yourself for a lot of reasons all we had to do was stop them that we got yes they got the ball at the end but we had to stop them to this day that moment Changed History those are the things that you wait for those days to get to that moment of your life where you can have that and you can say that you won three in a row and that was a tough moment watching that kick the field goal that was a tough moment for us to lose that game so it's not long thereafter that you find out I believe this is right during the Pro Bowl from a writer that the San Francisco 49ers who you've given it all to have put you in Plan B free agency which is basically a Way Station to them saying we're moving on right yeah what was tough for me was that here was history that you were playing for that moment and here was that taken away from you here is a new environment and here's all this all of what we built was gone all it's over it's done to then then to go to being a rookie again to learning a whole new system to I mean you end up with the Raiders yeah of all teams across the bay and at the beginning of the Season you're struggling and and I know you're asking yourself well were the 49ers right am I finished is did they pull the trigger at the right time and and then something clicks for you with the Raiders and your second half of the season is all world yeah and it it turns out that uh what clicks is that I start to really understand the the defense I start to understand the process I start to believe that I'm a rookie start to believe all the things that I that I talked about early on in my life this four-time Super Bowl champion has put himself at least mentally in the class of a rookie going to the Raiders and you end up leading the league with eight interceptions and and you're right back there as as this great all pro because a lot of life is about Reinventing yourself it's repurposing the opportunity that you believe in knowing that if you just trust it that it will come to you I think we spent so much time thinking about the past and not thinking about the future so you go from the Raiders to the Jets to the Chiefs for a short while and then you retire any regrets as to how it all ended when you come in this game or you come into anything thing you give everything you can you try to get as much respect as you possibly can and then you leave you you don't have any regrets you exhaust moments you exhaust life and you move on and you got to ultimately try to do that in other aspects of your life or you'll miss those Great Moments you'll miss the Great Moments that are that are around us around all of us and so I'm trying not to miss those Great Moments you have a great moment when you go into the Hall of Fame because of who presented you yeah my dad presented me at the hall of fame and that was a great moment for thank you man that's so cool that to to share that moment with your father yeah because as he said and as he's done all his life is get give everything he can he's respect everything that he's done with helping our family and I really believe that that those moments are meant for him those moments are meant for all the sacrifices that he gave us is meant for him because of all the things that he had to endure growing up and being who he is I think the great thing about life is you got to tip your hat and and the way you tip your hat is is moments where you can allow him to illuminate all the what he's done for our family and and uh that moment then became as much about him as it did about you it did and for a lot of reasons it should be it should should be so here's my last question what's next what's next for you what's next for me and I really say this all the time don't know what's next what I do know is that I got to exhaust the moment I really want to try to exhaust the moment more importantly I think one of the great things about being in this setting is that hopefully people walk away understanding that there's more than just a guy going out trying to do woo that I'm trying to do woo every day and I'm trying to live woo every day that's great so here it is you did hold on hold on hold on you didn't sign up for this but this is how we end the show and uh don't woo me after I ask you a couple of these would you rather have X-ray vision or bionic hearing I I think I think I think I'd go with with the hearing and the reason why I want to go with the hearing is that you know think about how many plays that I would have been able to listen to you know how many players ought have been able to listen to sometimes it seemed like you could hear I wanted to hear more okay would you rather be a master of every instrument or be fluent in every language I would rather be fluent in every Lang language because I still think that that I haven't connected to as many people as I should be able to connect to would you rather only be able to watch horror movies or only Lifetime movies I'm going to say this right now I don't watch horror movies so so you're like Ronnie lot in front of a Lifetime movie or like Lonesome Dove or something oh yeah that may look all day long for me and finally what makes a great tackler a great tackler is is is is a person who understands his soul and is able to express it in a way that every time he allows all the energy to come out that we see it and we feel it when he hit someone and that not only do we feel it and see it that it gives us a little woo ladies and gentlemen the master of woo Ronnie lock thank you guys awesome thank you [Music] than [Music]

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Length: 49min 17sec (2957 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 18 2024