Everything I did to get back, if it wasn’t for my team, it was for my city. That’s the one thing that I bought into from day one. I’m not just here in this city to play football. I’m here to actually create real change in this city. If my effort can give you hope, faith or love, then so be it. I’ll give everything I have, and today was about me giving everything that I had, showing people that no matter the circumstances you may be going through, just push through it. If you can push through it, you will encourage somebody. Today, hopefully, through what I did, somebody was uplifted.

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