Good evening. Thank you. I appreciate that. Um First I would like to thank the north Carolina sports Hall of Fame committee for this tremendous honor. Um Born and raised in north Carolina, this means a lot. This is home has always been home. So thank you to the committee. Also want to thank and congratulate My 2022 class members, amazing class and amazing individuals as you all have heard from tonight, I got 10 new friends. So congratulations to you all. Much respect for sure. Also thanks to my family that's here. My friends are staff members, that whole brothers that are here and obviously Wolfpack nation that is in attendance tonight as well. Thank you all for your guidance. Thank you for your love. Thank you for pushing me and encouraging me and holding me accountable to do what I wanted to do and that was to play athletics and to do it at the highest of level and I had an opportunity to do that throughout my athletic career. I grew up in Gibson ville, north Carolina, small, hardworking tobacco pulling humble town uh that really shaped me and gave me the grippers to go out and snatch the ball out of the air And uh, and to help my football team to success on the football field. So very, very humble beginnings, beginnings also come from a family and a neighborhood that excelled at athletics. Everybody in our neighborhood played ball, everybody played. So it was competition every single day and that's why I was able to get that competitive spirit and that fire to pursue athletics also special thanks to my grandmother who's here, my beautiful grandmother, my pops that's here, my sister, my brother, my kids, my niece, my friend Lloyd, my agent. Greg is here heck James smith who's my who was my, who was our my sister and I and my brother, she was an athletic director and Gibson when we was growing up still have a tremendous, tremendous relationship with jane. Thank you jane for taking us around. We had this she and Roy we had this beat up van and jane little short self will be in the front and she'll be driving us around making sure we was picked up and making sure that we got home safely. So thanks jane for helping to uh to help me to get molded to you know, do what I wanted to do and that again and that was to play play play athletics. That's where I was able to get my my inspiration from my high school years were spent at Eastern Guilford. I know I have we have some Eastern Guilford folks here. Coach Hackett and his wife, big shouts out to Eastern Guilford um imagine this as a freshman 5354 A size 11 12 Shoe walking into the high school as a freshman and then the trophy cases all of my aunties and all of my uncles pressure immediately. Um but I was pushed by a really good coaching head coach, Tommy Grayson, God rest his soul, our basketball coach, Duffy Westmoreland, our football coach, head football coach David Von um they pushed me to be the best athlete that I could possibly be and also my brother, the battles that he and I had before. Our mom and dad will come home from work. We tour up some doors, Trust me, we would go at it and we got to get him into sports. No contact Sports Hall of Fame here soon too. But that's for another time. But thank you Terrence for, for the competition and my sister probably out of Terrence and I both was the best athlete, a phenomenal cheerleader, played softball, played basketball. Thank you Tasha. Uh, for your continued guidance and in your, in your, in showcasing your athletic experience, uh, experience as well. Um look, my journey has some setbacks. You know, I tried to take the short corners with academics. My scores were low, my, my grade point average was low and almost didn't get into university because of not being focused on my athletic. So any young folks out here, high school kids are out here and even my kids and my young niece Emery, take care of your school work, Take care of your schoolwork and your books. You can go a long, long way. So I had to deal with that. I had to deal with academics and I also had to deal with the, with my mom battling cancer. Um, so that was also challenging. But fortunately I had a great family. I had athletics so we could go somewhere and take that frustration and that fear out on someone. So we busted a lot of butts on friday nights and uh, and we was able to and, and, and that was how we were able to express ourselves, you know, kind of going through some of the tough things that we were dealing with within the home and then off the Hargrave Military academy. And I know this will bring a smile to my dad's face. He was a marine vet. He couldn't get me to the barracks quick enough at Hargrave Military Academy, but he knew something, he knew something that I didn't know, he knew what was out in front of me. He knew what was ahead of me. Even when I didn't believe in it, he knew what was good for me and he was right. I applied myself at Hargrave Military Academy. I went on and got great marks and was able to get the grades that I needed to go off to North Carolina State University, the A. C. C. And I heard Muggs talk about the A. C. C. And he's right. I grew up watching len bias and James worthy and Crisco Giuliani fire and ice. Michael Jordan's, the A. C. C. Was where I wanted to play, that's where I wanted to go and compete and compete at the highest level and I was able to do that at NC State shouts out to coach Michael caine for believing in me and he and his staff for believing in me, giving me an opportunity to come in and pursue pursue uh being an athlete student. I'm sorry, a student athlete, thanks to coach cocaine. Uh for that he and his coaching staff and one thing I remember about cocaine, he always had an open door policy. So whatever you were dealing with as a young man, whether it was in school or whether it was with athletics, you could always go to coach O'Kane and talk to him about that. So thanks to coach O'Kane and again his staff for believing in me and I had great success at NC State was was player of the year all A C. C. We was able to get into a bowl bid. Um It helped certainly helped to change and shape uh my life and we were able to knock off the top rated florida state Seminoles. Uh Syracuse So carter Findley and my time was rowdy. We had a lot of good games and I remember that florida State game, people were leaving their homes to get to carter Finley so they could celebrate. That's how that's when I realized the impact that sports has on a community and and have on people that day when I saw people leaving their homes to come to carter Finley to celebrate with us. It was amazing carter Finley was packed and Hillsborough Street was unbelievable. You can, if you can only imagine, yes. Um but yeah, but, but but my time in the city state was was awesome. And then after that off too, to the NFL, drafted sixth overall to the ST Louis rams, became part of the greatest show on turf, won a Super Bowl as a rookie. Now I thought that was how it was going to be. Year after year after year, I learned pretty quickly that wasn't the case, but I was so glad, I was so glad that I had an opportunity to relish in that moment and really take it in and really be in the moment of what was happening as well as my family. We were always, was all able to take that in um in Atlanta. And again in the, in the pros, I went on in, I was an all pro, was a pro ballplayer all decade team of the 2000 have been a three time Pro Football Hall of Fame finalists. So an incredible pro football career. That, that inspiration came from here, right here in the state of north Carolina. I've been inducted into several halls of Fames throughout my career. But this one is the most special. And again, I go back to why it's because it's home, people often ask me tori, when did you move back to north Carolina? I never left north Carolina. This has always been home when, when we were playing in the pros. My brother and I we would come home in the summer and this is what we were trained. We would go over to the university and we were trained and I had great mentors like Chucky brown who I would see in the weight room and Chucky played for all the NBA teams. And one thing he would say to us and say to me is Tori don't let anyone outwork you. And that stuck with me. I had already developed a work ethic from my family and my parents and my grandmother and my mother and as I mentioned pulling tobacco I worked in burger king. I will leave games on friday night, go home, go to sleep, wake up the next morning and my cousin and I Weyman would be at burger king opening up the store for the six a.m. Shift. So that work ethic was instilled in me at an early age. So my ability to play across the middle. Fearless was because of how I was raised the work ethic that I had and then watching my mom get up every single day and work and then come home and provide for her kids while she was dealing with cancer. So it was nothing that I couldn't accomplish through athletics because of the examples that I had uh in front of me also want to thank my lovely wife. Um This will be 20 years this year we've been married. Um My wife is incredible. She's blessed us with three great kids. Um My son Brandon who is at N. C. State right now in the civil engineering department. My daughter Tori Brianna, who is uh finishing up her freshman year. She's on the soccer team. And then my youngest daughter Brooklyn who was a senior in high school playing for her high school team at Heritage High School will also be at N. C. State in the fall joining her sister to play soccer. So I went to N. C. State. My wife went to N. C. State and played soccer. My brother went to N. C. State. Buddy Lloyd went to N. C. State. My agent Greg went to N. C. State. My sister in law went to N. C. State folks that are that are on our staff at home. Brothers went to N. C. State when I tell you this is home this is home. I accept this honor with confidence with a tremendous amount of humility and gratitude. I look forward to continuing to serve the state to continue to serve the north Carolina sports Hall of fame through athletics and our pillars of business. Hold Brothers Hold Brothers Construction as we continue to build our state's future infrastructure and then Hope Brothers Foundation as we continue to serve families with a parent or guardian that's battling cancer. We've been serving this community here and the north here and in ST. Louis in various communities for 21 years with our foundation and we hope to do it another 21 years. So again, thank the north Carolina. I want to thank the north Carolina Sports Hall of Fame and the committee for, for inducting me into this illustrious class. And again, this is home and it only, it feels right. So thank you all have a wonderful night. Did I make this? Oh, I was over time. You guys have a wonderful night. Take care. Have a great weekend. All the best. Yes.