cycle. when you were in there you must have been thinking, this is not a life i want to lead? >> i think my senior year in high school when i missed over a hundred days of the year and almost didn't graduate. i had to go to summer school to get my diploma and missed out on college scholarships. i had to go to junior college which was like a put-down to me because i was such a highly recruited player and i had to go to a small school like where all the screw-ups go. it said, hey, i have to take care of business, you know, and not do it again. got to get a job, get responsible. >> how hard was it to get a job when you have done time? not easy, is it? >> well, i was a juvenile. it wasn't really doing time. it was 30 days, 60 days, 90 days. it wasn't really like convict time. so i'm not minimizing it, but i don't think when you're 18 or anything like that, i don't