Be a baller

I'm a baller. It goes to more than the fact that I like to play ball, watch ball, etc. Whatever. It's an attitude you have to have in order to keep facing forward in this world. You only have a 5% chance to make it into the program you want to get into, or that you don't have a chance to be with the person you want to be with. It doesn't matter, you have to have to have the attitude that you can do it. If someone tells you that you can't do something, you have to be able to look them in the eyes and say, "Fuck you, I can do whatever I put my mind to, I'm a baller."

Maybe that's a silly way to put it, but it's true. There has to be a moment where you say, fuck it, I'm going balls out (actually a phrase from steam engines, not vulgar) and I'm going to succeed against all odds. No matter what, or who, the obstacle, I'm going to make it. I don't exactly know what making it means, all I know is that it's something that was definitely missing from my attitude before. You have to own it, be a man, and put your name on it. To quote one of my heroes, the quintessential, prototypical baller, Deion Sanders: "I built this place, and this is my house!"

No matter where you are, when you are, you should be able to own what you do. Don't let anyone or anything stand in the way of what you want to be, what you want to do. I used to be able to slice through a defense like butter, and fly down a track like a bat out of hell. There's no reason I can't be in that kind of shape again, or attack my work and my future with the same kind of tenacity that I used to carry a ball with. It's a matter of perspective. The true measurement is what's inside. So, whether it's on the ball field or in the board room, be a baller.