"I have been around for years, but I wasn't doing things the right way," he said during an interview with philly.com. "I wasn't giving it 100 [percent]. I wasn't giving it 100 in the gym, in training or putting myself out there. I was kind of coasting by with my size basically because the people I surrounded myself with in the past were basically telling me, 'Oh, you have a great look. You're going to be fine. You're going to be a big deal in this business.' Because I didn't know any better, that's all I needed to hear."