Edgerrin James
The Operator
Execution, delivery and performance, gets the hard thing done.
Edgerrin James is The Operator, a Hall of Famer who dominated through process rather than flash. The 2am solo workouts, the deliberate film study of Zach Thomas's shoulder reads, and his stated philosophy of keeping the main thing the main thing all point to the same discipline. His excellence was engineered through repeatable, self-imposed systems, sustained not by inspiration or outside influence but by rigorous preparation he held himself to daily.
“What you can do by yourself, what you willing to do by yourself is the true testament of who you are. Everybody can do it when the coach there, when the video on, but it's like, what you gonna do, nobody looking.”
“I watched enough film and I figured out he's looking at my shoulders. When my shoulders turned, he just hauls ass running. So I started keeping my shoulder square — gave my lineman a one-love advantage over him.”
“I always kept the main thing the main thing. Every time, I just go out there, I'm gonna go play ball. And then when the season's done I'm gonna get missing, get back to my comfort zone.”
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