“I always keep those moments that were defining for me in my past and challenged me in my past — from getting evicted out of my apartment when I was 14 years old, to being cut from the CFL and only having seven bucks in my pocket, to bouts with depression — I keep moments like that very close to me because it continues to be great motivators for me,” he told Muscle and Fitness magazine. “I didn’t have doors of opportunity.”