“Do you know when I stepped onto that field for the first time as a professional football player I always thought it would be the best day of my life? I stood there, hearing the crowd cheering my name and I scanned as many faces as I could but it wasn’t the best day…because you weren’t there. The one person who I knew would be proud of me. It should have been the best day of my life but it wasn’t because you weren’t there, I was all alone.”
