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"In 1995 I had $7 bucks in my pocket"
"Keep chasin' your dreams.."
- Dwayne Johnson via Facebook
http://www.forbes.com/sites/dorothypomerantz/2012/05/16/the-rock-is-kicking-ass-and-saving-franchises/ (http://www.forbes.com/sites/dorothypomerantz/2012/05/16/the-rock-is-kicking-ass-and-saving-franchises/)
I remember years ago before The Rock really got famous he did a candid interview where he talked about living in a 1 bedroom apartment with his mom, living on bologna sandwiches day in and day out.
In college he said he couldn't afford a mattress so he found one in a dumpster and slept on it. He didn't have enough money to live on so he ate macaroni and cheese every day.
The guy is a great success story.
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"In 1995 I had $7 bucks in my pocket"
"Keep chasin' your dreams.."
- Dwayne Johnson via Facebook
http://www.forbes.com/sites/dorothypomerantz/2012/05/16/the-rock-is-kicking-ass-and-saving-franchises/ (http://www.forbes.com/sites/dorothypomerantz/2012/05/16/the-rock-is-kicking-ass-and-saving-franchises/)
I remember years ago before The Rock really got famous he did a candid interview where he talked about living in a 1 bedroom apartment with his mom, living on bologna sandwiches day in and day out.
In college he said he couldn't afford a mattress so he found one in a dumpster and slept on it. He didn't have enough money to live on so he ate macaroni and cheese every day.
The guy is a great success story.
he said he slept on a mattress he got from a dumpster here in /Calgary when he was trying out for the Stampeders
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he said he slept on a mattress he got from a dumpster here in /Calgary when he was trying out for the Stampeders
Oh my bad. I saw the interview like 15 years ago so I wasn't sure.
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He has a lot of money!
That's tops in my book.
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Sometimes success is failure turned inside out.
I don't have coin like the rock but in 1994 I was bust, had nothing, just a dream.
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Hhahaa ::)
Most people are that way at the beginning.
Unless they've rich parents, almost everyone starts from nothing.
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I started from nothing and now i am a high price trainer.
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He made it in wrestling without having to perform any gay acts ::)
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Considering that I was very fortunate growing up and never really had to struggle... I love reading stories like that, very interesting to see the other side of the coin and to see where people came from... makes me appreciate what my family was able to give me as they raised me.
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Considering that I was very fortunate growing up and never really had to struggle... I love reading stories like that, very interesting to see the other side of the coin and to see where people came from... makes me appreciate what my family was able to give me as they raised me.
Don't buy his bullshit. His dad was a wrestler and must have made some decent money. He went to the University of Miami which is a private school and very expensive. He probably got a scholarship to go there. Just check out how much tuition is there. Outrageous.
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Don't buy his bullshit. His dad was a wrestler and must have made some decent money. He went to the University of Miami which is a private school and very expensive. He probably got a scholarship to go there. Just check out how much tuition is there. Outrageous.
Totally spot on. Its pretty boring all these 'famous' people proclaiming they came from no money or they were bullied ::) Same old shit
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Totally spot on. Its pretty boring all these 'famous' people proclaiming they came from no money or they were bullied ::) Same old shit
Ya they all have these stories. Its like they think they get extra credit for coming from nothing. When in reality they got there through connections.
His dad was a wrestler. But I bet he'll tell you his dad had nothing to do with him becoming a wrestler ::)
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Ya they all have these stories. Its like they think they get extra credit for coming from nothing. When in reality they got there through connections.
His dad was a wrestler. But I bet he'll tell you his dad had nothing to do with him becoming a wrestler ::)
The one that bothers me the most is the Bill Gates Story. Oh he didn't go to highschool and made genious business decisions. BULLSHIT!!! His mom was a power player in the tech industry. She sat on the board of IBM and a couple other companies. She made all of the decisions for her son. But they forget to tell you this shit.
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The one that bothers me the most is the Bill Gates Story. Oh he didn't go to highschool and made genious business decisions. BULLSHIT!!! His mom was a power player in the tech industry. She sat on the board of IBM and a couple other companies. She made all of the decisions for her son. But they forget to tell you this shit.
I went out with a chick who told me she had a bad childhood, but worked her ass off to get into a top law school and landed a job at a big firm. Wasnt really attracted to her at first, but the fact that she became successful coming from nothing I was so impressed I found her irresistible. I stuck with her for 2 months
later on I find out her father owns the law firm she works at, and hes a professor at Cornell were she went. Oh ya rough life. See ya loser.
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fucking hawaiian liar rock stfu u rich piece of garbage
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1994 or bust.
i was living in a trailer, walking 2 miles to bag groceries in 94.
pell grant got me to community college.
today i'm a top-notch getbig poster.
'the rock' approval pending.
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google 'the rock net worth' 82 million
not a bad 17 years.
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What a lie ... maybe once he snorted too much coke off of some old schmoe's cock and ran outta money ..
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Yes but what people don't know is that he had 27 dollars in his pocket before he met Lou Ferrigno
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Everyone claiming The Rock came from money:
You don't know the whole story about Rocky Johnson his father, or his mother, or how he got into the University of Miami.
His father is a well documented ASSHOLE, who fucked over everyone he was ever involved with including Dwayne's mom. He wasn't there when Dwayne was growing up and didn't help support Dwayne.
His mom worked for a small wrestling organization in Hawaii, and she struggled.
Dwayne went to the U on a scholarship, and struggled to feed himself while there.
It was Pat Patterson, who was good friends with Dwayne's dead grandfather Peter Miavia, who gave Dwayne a shot in the WWF. Dwayne was fortunate enough to have the skill and athletic ability to earn a spot on the roster.
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In 1995, I had a personal driver, a full time cook, a bodyguard that was six times my size and to top it I had two months paid vacation every year. Now in my 25th year. I'm stuck walking everywhere, can't afford food, and I struggle to find a bed that will fit my size, dammit how things have changed :'(
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BWAHAHAHA. Bullshit, scholarship athletes have no issues eating. The school provides the football players plenty of food. They all get cafeteria passes with unlimited access to all food. They all have coaches and Personal Trainers and dieticians. College football is a multi billion dollar industry and colleges makes millions and millions and make sure their players are up to par. Miami especially took care of it's athletes in many legal and illegal ways.
Everyone claiming The Rock came from money:
You don't know the whole story about Rocky Johnson his father, or his mother, or how he got into the University of Miami.
His father is a well documented ASSHOLE, who fucked over everyone he was ever involved with including Dwayne's mom. He wasn't there when Dwayne was growing up and didn't help support Dwayne.
His mom worked for a small wrestling organization in Hawaii, and she struggled.
Dwayne went to the U on a scholarship, and struggled to feed himself while there.
It was Pat Patterson, who was good friends with Dwayne's dead grandfather Peter Miavia, who gave Dwayne a shot in the WWF. Dwayne was fortunate enough to have the skill and athletic ability to earn a spot on the roster.
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BWAHAHAHA. Bullshit, scholarship athletes have no issues eating. The school provides the football players plenty of food. They all get cafeteria passes with unlimited access to all food. They all have coaches and Personal Trainers and dieticians. College football is a multi billion dollar industry and colleges makes millions and millions and make sure their players are up to par. Miami especially took care of it's athletes in many legal and illegal ways.
I don't know what it's like nowadays, but in the 80's and 90's student athletes didn't get shit.
1980s: Luther Campbell's "pay for play"
2 Live Crew member Luther Campbell was alleged to have been behind what was referred to as a "pay-for-play" system, which involved cash rewards for acts such as scoring touchdowns and big hits,[135] although Campbell has never actually donated to the University of Miami or its athletics department.
He was playing players because they barely had enough money to eat. 350 lbs men can't live on 3 normal sized meals per day.
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Specifically addressed in this video:
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I don't know what it's like nowadays, but in the 80's and 90's student athletes didn't get shit.
1980s: Luther Campbell's "pay for play"
2 Live Crew member Luther Campbell was alleged to have been behind what was referred to as a "pay-for-play" system, which involved cash rewards for acts such as scoring touchdowns and big hits,[135] although Campbell has never actually donated to the University of Miami or its athletics department.
He was playing players because they barely had enough money to eat. 350 lbs men can't live on 3 normal sized meals per day.
Nope.....almost every D1 football program has "training table" for the players. All you can eat, special food, nutritionists, special diets, supplements, etc.
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Miami was on the tail end of one of the biggest and winningest runs in college football history when he was there. I find it hard to believe he had to subsist off of a few packets of Easy Mac each day.
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Even donald trump was broke in the nineties. Don't mean he wasn't connected. The rock dad may have been an asshole, but he was close to his samoan side. His maternal grandfather was a wrestler, his cousins yokazuna, and rikishi were also wwf superstars. The rock had all the inn's with the wwf.
direct from wiki
Along with his father and grandfather, several members of Johnson's family are current and former professional wrestlers, including his uncles, the Wild Samoans (Afa and Sika Anoa'i) and cousins, such as Manu, Yokozuna, Rikishi, Rosey, and Umaga.[19] When he declared his intention to join the family business, his father resisted, but agreed to train his son himself, warning him that he would not go easy on him.[18] With help from veteran wrestler Pat Patterson, Johnson had several tryout matches with the WWF in 1996; he defeated The Brooklyn Brawler at a house show under his real name, Dwayne Johnson,[24] and lost the others to Chris Candido and Owen Hart.[19] Impressed by his talent and charisma, Johnson was signed to a contract after wrestling at Jerry Lawler's United States Wrestling Association, where he wrestled under the ring name "Flex Kavana".[5] While there, he won the USWA World Tag Team Championship twice with Bart Sawyer in the summer of 1996.
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Nope.....almost every D1 football program has "training table" for the players. All you can eat, special food, nutritionists, special diets, supplements, etc.
They do now. I'm not sure what it was like 20 years ago. College football has grown like crazy since then.
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They do now. I'm not sure what it was like 20 years ago. College football has grown like crazy since then.
Yes, back in the 90's all the scholariship athletes on Division 1 schools were starving and looked like this ::) ::) ::) ::)
Here's the U of M team photo in 95
(http://omnisapien.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/african-kids.jpg)
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He has a lot of money!
That's tops in my book.
Well regardless of which way you look at it. It's all paper money. You're all being played for suckers by the Federal Reserve.
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They do now. I'm not sure what it was like 20 years ago. College football has grown like crazy since then.
The NCAA officially adopted rules and regulations on "Training Table Meals" in 1991. The practice dates back to the early 1900's at schools like Yale. If you don't think college football was big 20 years ago, you're sorely mistaken.
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The NCAA officially adopted rules and regulations on "Training Table Meals" in 1991. The practice dates back to the early 1900's at schools like Yale. If you don't think college football was big 20 years ago, you're sorely mistaken.
Shut up.
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The NCAA officially adopted rules and regulations on "Training Table Meals" in 1991. The practice dates back to the early 1900's at schools like Yale. If you don't think college football was big 20 years ago, you're sorely mistaken.
Didn't say it wasn't big. Said it has grown like crazy since then, specifically money wise. In 1991, the SEC divided up 20.6 million in rev. In 2010, that number was 220 million.
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maybe he had $7 in his back pocket, but $27,000 in his designer handbag.
louis vuitton approved & bodybuilding related.
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Shut up.
Hahahahahahahahaha....ea t a dick NAMBLArat
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Hahahahahahahahaha....eat a dick NAMBLArat
You should stop posting on getbig. Nobody likes you.
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You should start your own board, YAGR.....You could jerk off to your own posted shit.
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You should start your own board, YAGR.....You could jerk off to your own posted shit.
Really not interested in your sub-par thoughts.
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You should stop posting on getbig. Nobody likes you.
Hahahahahahahaha......fu ck off and die NAMBLArat
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shouldn't there be an "only" in that line...... :-\ :-\
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BWAHAHAHA. Bullshit, scholarship athletes have no issues eating. The school provides the football players plenty of food. They all get cafeteria passes with unlimited access to all food. They all have coaches and Personal Trainers and dieticians. College football is a multi billion dollar industry and colleges makes millions and millions and make sure their players are up to par. Miami especially took care of it's athletes in many legal and illegal ways.
LOLOLOL SO TRUE. COLLEGE ATHLETES ARE SOME OF THE MOST PAMPERED AMERICANS, especially when their treatment is compared with their worth as human beings. The dining halls and facilities, the pharma grade hormones and steroid cocktail injected by sycophantic overzealous assistants. All for free
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"In 1995 I had $7 bucks in my pocket"
"Keep chasin' your dreams.."
- Dwayne Johnson via Facebook
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/dorothypomerantz/2012/05/16/the-rock-is-kicking-ass-and-saving-franchises/ (http://www.forbes.com/sites/dorothypomerantz/2012/05/16/the-rock-is-kicking-ass-and-saving-franchises/)
I remember years ago before The Rock really got famous he did a candid interview where he talked about living in a 1 bedroom apartment with his mom, living on bologna sandwiches day in and day out.
In college he said he couldn't afford a mattress so he found one in a dumpster and slept on it. He didn't have enough money to live on so he ate macaroni and cheese every day.
The guy is a great success story.
What a horrible story. He had nothing and through perseverance he made.himself into a success? But, but how can a poor person become successful? Think about that
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Vince mcmahon and Joe weider probably required they same types of things in order to make it big.
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Someone pull up some pictures of him in 1995. The dude has been on the gas since high school. And he hasn't missed any meals. Fucking clown. Always had money for that cycle and was able to eat 3000 to 4500 cals a day.
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Someone pull up some pictures of him in 1995. The dude has been on the gas since high school. And he hasn't missed any meals. Fucking clown.
Samoans have freaky genetics and badasses on a football field. Palamalu is considered a small.Samoan but freaking hit like someone 280!
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Samoans have freaky genetics and badasses on a football field. Palamalu is considered a small.Samoan but freaking hit like someone 280!
He's got white in him.
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Samoans have freaky genetics and badasses on a football field. Palamalu is considered a small.Samoan but freaking hit like someone 280!
His dad was more muscular than him and it wasn't because of genetics. Dude has been on the bean since jumpstreet and taught his son everything he knows
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He's got white in him.
down the line maybe. His dad was black, and his mom is Samoan.
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Someone pull up some pictures of him in 1995. The dude has been on the gas since high school. And he hasn't missed any meals. Fucking clown. Always had money for that cycle and was able to eat 3000 to 4500 cals a day.
Poor scrawny kid
(http://0.tqn.com/d/prowrestling/1/0/p/8/-/-/rock1.jpg)
(http://www.bestsportsphotos.com/images//t_39625.jpg)
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Haha yes what a twink
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dwayne has become quite the guy...especially considering his pudgy football photo
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I'm pretty sure he had a bad injury in college and dropped out shortly thereafter. He's probably talking about the time in between leaving college with no job skills and the WWE.
And just because he ate good as a scholarship athlete at Miami doesn't mean he had money in his pocket. Hell, look at the fab 5 at Michigan, they generated millions for the university and besides possible kickbacks to Chris Webber, they were all pretty much just a bunch of broke teenagers.
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Sometimes success is failure turned inside out.
I don't have coin like the rock but in 1994 I was bust, had nothing, just a dream.
So your "dream" was to become the # 1 schmoe of Australia? Congrats man, glad your dream came true. :)
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I went out with a chick who told me she had a bad childhood, but worked her ass off to get into a top law school and landed a job at a big firm. Wasnt really attracted to her at first, but the fact that she became successful coming from nothing I was so impressed I found her irresistible. I stuck with her for 2 months
later on I find out her father owns the law firm she works at, and hes a professor at Cornell were she went. Oh ya rough life. See ya loser.
Gen X and Y, the Bullshit gen---we like to play the "Adversity" angle, everybody has a hard luck story, they want the "image" of working hard...smoke and mirrors.
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Yes but what people don't know is that he had 27 dollars in his pocket before he met Lou Ferrigno
Loled hard haha
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"In 1995 I had $7 bucks in my pocket"
"Keep chasin' your dreams.."
- Dwayne Johnson via Facebook
http://www.forbes.com/sites/dorothypomerantz/2012/05/16/the-rock-is-kicking-ass-and-saving-franchises/ (http://www.forbes.com/sites/dorothypomerantz/2012/05/16/the-rock-is-kicking-ass-and-saving-franchises/)
I remember years ago before The Rock really got famous he did a candid interview where he talked about living in a 1 bedroom apartment with his mom, living on bologna sandwiches day in and day out.
In college he said he couldn't afford a mattress so he found one in a dumpster and slept on it. He didn't have enough money to live on so he ate macaroni and cheese every day.
The guy is a great success story.
Your nut hugging for the guy is sickening.
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Hes talking about when he played for a team in canada right after college. Was only earning $200 a week. A year after that, he started wrestling.
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Don't buy his bullshit. His dad was a wrestler and must have made some decent money. He went to the University of Miami which is a private school and very expensive. He probably got a scholarship to go there. Just check out how much tuition is there. Outrageous.
I forgot about that, great point. Though his dad, "Rocky Miavia", right? Didn't make the kind of money you'd think a pro wrestler would make, nothing comparable to today at least. I'm pretty sure he got into U of M playin' ball.
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down the line maybe. His dad was black, and his mom is Samoan.
His dad was africville canadian 100 bucks says he was atleast half white.
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7 bucks in his pocket...and how much on bank accounts?
As believable as arnold s. stories about his brick laying business haha.
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This is all that scholarship athletes were given back when Rock was playin ball.
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What the fuck is with this miami tangent, he was talking about when he was in canada, they don't even give a fuck about football.
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So your "dream" was to become the # 1 schmoe of Australia? Congrats man, glad your dream came true. :)
Says you with 8.5k posts on a bodybuilding board.
Haha.
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Lots of hating on a successful man on getbig.
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This is all that scholarship athletes were given back when Rock was playin ball.
The rules did not apply to the football players ;)
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Lots of hating on a successful man on getbig.
No one hates his success at all, most of the people in this thread like the rock. It is this oh poor me only having two quarters to rub together bullshit.
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the rock is extremely talented, but you can't deny that he had an easier road to fame
he didn't need money in college, everything is paid for scholarship athletes
i read his book, he had no idea what to do with his life when football didn't work out, his father was close with pat patterson (vince mcmahon's right hand man) and he got him a private wrestling try out while guys like mick foley had to wrestle in high school gyms in front of 100 people and sleeping in his car hoping to be noticed
like i said as far as a wrestling character goes he was as good as anybody, but does he make it there without his connections?
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This is all that scholarship athletes were given back when Rock was playin ball.
players at oklahoma like billy simms had apartments, corvettes, etc, etc, etc. you really think a booster back in the day wasn't hooking mr walker up. even reggie bush was living the ronaldinho lifestyle at usc, and his heir joe mcknight was driving a hummer h2.
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the rock is extremely talented, but you can't deny that he had an easier road to fame
he didn't need money in college, everything is paid for scholarship athletes
i read his book, he had no idea what to do with his life when football didn't work out, his father was close with pat patterson (vince mcmahon's right hand man) and he got him a private wrestling try out while guys like mick foley had to wrestle in high school gyms in front of 100 people and sleeping in his car hoping to be noticed
like i said as far as a wrestling character goes he was as good as anybody, but does he make it there without his connections?
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Does he even try wrestling at all without growing up with a wrestling dad? Chances are he'd move out to LA to get a job as an actor and at that time anyone not white and not named Denzel would be relegated to thugs roles or possibly even porn if he was hung.
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No one hates his success at all, most of the people in this thread like the rock. It is this oh poor me only having two quarters to rub together bullshit.
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1994 or bust.
i was living in a trailer, walking 2 miles to bag groceries in 94.
pell grant got me to community college.
today i'm a top-notch getbig poster.
'the rock' approval pending.
Now you only walk 1 mile to get groceries
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No one hates his success at all, most of the people in this thread like the rock. It is this oh poor me only having two quarters to rub together bullshit.
So you're hating on him for saying that he was poor?
Ever thought about that it is a figure of speech and that even with a stipend and all, he had to make it from the bottom to where he is now, as opposed to people who were born into a casino empire family?
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Technically Mike Tyson is in the red and broke. Yet people say he doesn't go anywhere without a limo. You figure it out.
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I won't even get into the boosters at the University of Miami. There are supposedly a couple of mega millionaires who grow up absolutely loving WWF wrestling. So having Dwayne(whos father was a mega known Wrestle) on the team would have been something for some of the boosters... The Rock was taken care of since jumpstreet.
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Gentlemen, quit fighting. You'll all be allowed to such The Rock's cock in due course.
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BWAHAHAHA. Bullshit, scholarship athletes have no issues eating. The school provides the football players plenty of food. They all get cafeteria passes with unlimited access to all food. They all have coaches and Personal Trainers and dieticians. College football is a multi billion dollar industry and colleges makes millions and millions and make sure their players are up to par. Miami especially took care of it's athletes in many legal and illegal ways.
Every post you have made in this thread is 100% accurate. I will be sure to look for more of your posts my good man.
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Dwayne did a Q & A on Twitter earlier today.
https://twitter.com/#!/TheRock
(https://twitter.com/#!/TheRock)
-Regarding his financial status growing up...
Dwayne Johnson @TheRock
. @mattlewisj My moment that defined me was being evicted from our apt at 14yrs old. Was determined to never be evicted again. #RockTalk
-Regarding his training routine...
Dwayne Johnson @TheRock
. @zoischicago My training schedule is 5 days a week & 2xs a day. Cardio in the AM and hittin' iron a few hours later. #RockTalk
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TTT
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Thank you for the sympathy bump!
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I won't even get into the boosters at the University of Miami. There are supposedly a couple of mega millionaires who grow up absolutely loving WWF wrestling. So having Dwayne(whos father was a mega known Wrestle) on the team would have been something for some of the boosters... The Rock was taken care of since jumpstreet.
Qft. I doubt seriously he had a problem at UM playing football. Miami was dominating at that time and I'm sure the money was flowin from wealthy alums to players. I went to college with a bunch of 'poor' football players. They all might have grew up poor but they had weren't poor playing football there- nice apartments, clothes, escalades, motorcycles,etc. I lived in an apartment close to half of them.
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Qft. I doubt seriously he had a problem at UM playing football. Miami was dominating at that time and I'm sure the money was flowin from wealthy alums to players. I went to college with a bunch of 'poor' football players. They all might have grew up poor but they had weren't poor playing football there- nice apartments, clothes, escalades, motorcycles,etc. I lived in an apartment close to half of them.
And what happens to them if they don't make the NFL?
They're only in college for three or four years. If they don't get that big money in the National Football League, what do you think happens to them?
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Oh please, what a bullshit story.
If you want to look at a real successful story, just read through the last 8 years of Tbombz life. :-\
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The Rock outlines Henry Cavill workout plans
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Does he still need our Help?
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Everyone claiming The Rock came from money:
Dwayne went to the U on a scholarship, and struggled to feed himself while there.
At one of the top pay-to-play universities, LOL. I'll buy he didn't have a booster giving him envelopes like Michael Irvine but he wasn't starving with a special cafe pass for football players. Maybe he didn't have extra money for late-night snacks and large pizzas.
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And what happens to them if they don't make the NFL?
They're only in college for three or four years. If they don't get that big money in the National Football League, what do you think happens to them?
they got a free education
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And what happens to them if they don't make the NFL?
They're only in college for three or four years. If they don't get that big money in the National Football League, what do you think happens to them?
Tough sh*t.
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they got a free education
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And lots of extras while they were on campus.
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Myth: self-made man.
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Myth: self-made man.
But there are self made failures.