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My mom would be at all my sporting events.

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Let's say I was playing football, ok?

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My mother would be on the sidelines

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and if the play on the field would start[br]going one way, my mother would start

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going like "MIKE, GET EM! GET EM!"

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And I'd be like, "Oh, my gosh."

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I'd get in a huddle with the other guys,

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they'd go, "Mark, is that your mother?"

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I'd go, "No, I never saw her before in

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my life."

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See, the greatest gift

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my mother ever gave me?

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- she believed in me. I have

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overdosed on drugs on 3 occasions where

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I should have been dead.

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But I believe I was kept here for a reason

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You show me your friends, I will show you

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your future. How do I know this?

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I hung out with losers, and I became the

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biggest loser of them all because I gave[br]up everything I dreamt about as a little

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boy because of who I chose to surround[br]myself with. My friends would drive me

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home at around 2, 3, 4 in the morning.

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We'd be drunk and high, laughing in the [br]car. We'd pull up in front of my house

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and they'd go, "Mark, Mark. [br]The lights on." I'd go, "Oh man, my

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mother's up." See, my mom wouldn't[br]go to bed until she knew her son was still

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alive. I'd walk in she'd say, "Hi Mark, [br]how was your night?" I'd go, "It was good

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Mom, I'm tired! I'm just gonna go to bed."[br]She goes, "Mark. I haven't seen you all

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day and all night. Can I please talk[br]to you." I says, "Man, just leave me

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alone. You bug me." I'd slam my bedroom[br]door. On the one person who believed in

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me. I was on a world wide tour when we [br]were wrestling overseas in Japan.

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After my wrestling match I went upstairs[br]in my hotel room and I fell asleep.

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There was a knock at my door at 3 o'[br]clock in the morning. I got out of bed

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and looked through the safety window[br]and I could see, it was a Japanese

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promoter. So I opened the door and he [br]says, "Mark, you need to call home.

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There's been an emergency." I went and[br]got on the hotel phone and I called back

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to the United States and I says, "Hey, [br]what's going on?" He said, "Mark, I don't

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know how to tell you this." I said, "Just[br]tell me, what happened?" I almost started

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crying and they go, "Mark, I can't tell[br]you." I said, "Just say it."

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They said, "Mark. Your mother died."[br]I just threw the phone down.

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I ran out of my hotel room. I took the

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elevator to the lobby and when the doors[br]opened up, I just ran down to the street.

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I mean, there was no cars, there was no[br]peoples. 3 o'clock in the morning. And I

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walked down to the middle of the street[br]in Hiroshima, Japan and I remember

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looking up and just saying, "Mom. I am[br]so sorry." I flew home for her

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funeral, and I was so nervous to walk[br]up to her casket so I just stood way

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in the back. And I kept looking from a [br]distance, thinking to myself, Mom,

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please wake up. Please get up. [br]And then I finally got the nerve to walk

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up to her. And as I got closer, I could [br]see my mom for the first time. I mean,

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she was so beautiful. She was dressed in[br]white. I mean, she looked like an angel.

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And I just stood over her and I said,[br]"Mom. You are my hero. Everything

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I am and everything I hope to be was[br]because of you. You loved me so much

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you gave me a life. You're the only one[br]that ever believed in me." How'd I repay

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her? By getting drunk, by getting high,[br]by getting stupid, by hanging out

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with losers. For what? All she ever[br]wanted to do, was talk to me.

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I wish I could talk to you now, mom.[br]I wish you could see what I'm doing.

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Why couldn't I have been a better son?[br]We are defined by our choices.

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but if you surround yourself by people[br]involved with drugs and alcohol

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and pills. It's a dead end. I'm not here[br]to preach to ya. I'm here to tell you

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I lived that life. It leads to broken[br]hearts, broken relationships, broken

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dreams and death. For what? To get[br]high? If you have a mother or a father

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when you go home, tell 'em how much you[br]love 'em. See, my whole life was about

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being rich and famous. I had to be a [br]millionaire. I had to win the race.

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I had to win the race at the expense [br]of my marriage, my family, my friends.

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For what? To be all alone in the world?[br]I learned what is truly important.

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And that is, how precious this gift

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of life is, and our families, and how[br]quickly it can be taken away. See,

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I now longer live in time, I live in the [br]moment. See, it's not what's in your

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pocket that matters. It's what's in your[br]heart that truly matters.

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Love. Love is just a word. Until[br]somebody comes along and gives

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it meaning. You. You're the meaning.