After a year of doing the Wood Report, I have never talked about myself, and that is really because, I do not have to. I do not need to get myself in the spotlight. However, this week is different.
On Friday, September 14th, 2018, my shoulder dislocated again. Basically right then and there, ending my football career forever. Now this is not about that. It is more than that. I have had struggles like everyone else. This is about how you comeback from a setback like this, no matter how much it sucks.
A person has to realize that everything in their life, is not going to be a one-shot thing. You are not going to do everything right. You are going to make mistakes. That mistake might be doing shot put while you already have a bum shoulder but come on WHO would do that? Or running Wisconsin for the 38th time in a row and have your big man shoot a 3. Hardships come in life. A man is not made by how many hardships he has, but by how he comes back from each hardship he encounters. I have dealt with this before, and I am not going to go down.
It is just called working at it. It is a true action of don’t say it, do it. A lot of people in times like these just want to feel bad for themselves and want people to feel bad for them. Well if you do that, you are not going to grow as a person at all. You will stay grounded and never realize that you actually could have done something with your life instead of just mope around like Eeyore from “Winnie The Pooh”. I have dealt with a lot of words that I cannot use in my life, and I get through it with great attitude and hope. Hope that I will come back stronger than I was before. To be a better athlete, a better man. That is what this was all about, how to live to your best capability.