"I was never in any competitive sports growing up." — Khalil Rountree Jr.

I used to travel around with bands and sell their merchandise on tour. I wasn't really chasing my dream. I was just trying to help someone chase their own. I always thought I had more in me than just selling clothes and packing the van.

About 19 is when everything started to hit me. People were going to college, some people were getting jobs, and I was living in a one-bedroom apartment with my mom, my brother, my niece, my sister, struggling to make $750 rent every month.

I never stop learning.

The ones that do support me and are cheering for me, man, I love them to death, because they could so easily be on the other end.