American - Athlete | January 1, 1989 -
Basketball was always my game.
Jason Pierre-Paul
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I guess you could say I took the hard route. That doesn't work for everybody, but it's worked out all right for me.
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Yes, I went the junior-college route, but I was playing at some very good junior colleges.
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The bottom line is I'm a football player, and I played three years of college football, and I produced all three years. I also got better every year, and I just felt like it was time to move on.
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Coming from a home like I did, I learned a lot about work ethic and determination.
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We had bills to pay. My dad wasn't working, and it was tough for my mom. People were always raising the rent, so I had to work, too. Everybody in the house worked to pay the rent.
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I had a lot of different jobs.
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My mom and dad taught me a lot. They kept me out of trouble and told me to go a better route. They taught me how to be a man, basically.
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We moved from place to place, and it was hard to adjust to different schools. But we made it.
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I had a job to take care of my parents, to take care of some bills at the house, because my daddy wasn't working. I had to figure out how to make that all work at one time. I was working at Boston Market... I told my coach, 'I can't play football because I have to make money to help my mom.'
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I want to get to the quarterback and stop the run.
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I'm going to keep rushing the ball until the whistle blows and it's the end of the game. That's how I'm going to keep playing.
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