Cam Newton’s ‘Ego’ Stopped Him From Profitable Particular Forces, Says DS “Q”

In an unique interview with TooFab, Q mentioned once they had been first given the listing of celebrities for this season, he had no thought who would make it. “I had no thought who can be there mentally,” he started.

“Then I began wanting up, Carey Hart, I understood that he was motor cross man and that is the very intense sport. So a part of me thought, ‘He is sort of been by some intense issues, possibly he could be a man who may in all probability get to the tip,'” he mentioned earlier than naming Marion Jones — a former Olympian — as somebody who stood out to him.

Nonetheless, each Hart and Jones needed to go away the course early attributable to accidents. Whereas he did not know who can be on the finish of the sequence, he knew Stephen Baldwin and Denise Richards can be two of the primary to name it quits.

“These two had been on the prime, these two had been neck and neck,” he revealed. “Baldwin was coming in with some knee stuff, so I am like, already he is complaining about this.”

As for Denise, he mentioned, “From what I’ve watched on TV, I simply sort of felt like that is going to be a impolite awakening for her to be out in one thing like this. I do not suppose she ought to go to handle it.”

Q famous that plenty of the “pro-athletes” do not at all times end, including that they do not have the psychological capabilities wanted. “It is actually, actually the mindset of an individual,” Q mentioned, earlier than including that “the primary factor you must be is extraordinarily humble” to say the title of being a “navy seal.”

Cam Newton was near the tip of the course earlier than he threw within the towel throughout the interrogation challenges. He was subjected to an interrogator getting in his face and yelling at him, being put in a cage and having water thrown on him. Q admitted Newton would have “completely” made it to the tip, if it wasn’t for his “ego.”

“Cam Newton — and with all due respect to Cam, I used to be positively a soccer fan of his — he naturally has an enormous ego. He was born with each bodily attribute you may ask for, the peak, the dimensions, the pace, the quickness, so he already comes with a degree of ego that he has to struggle with himself to interrupt that factor down,” Q mentioned.

“He is that man that struggles with it, I am positive, with taking command from another person that he might imagine is lesser than him or is just not on his degree typically side. However he would have gotten by it for positive, I believe, if he would have been capable of settle in and simply perceive that is what we have gone by, we have all achieved this,” Q mentioned, earlier than recalling his personal expertise in coaching the place males have put their bodily fingers on him.

Regardless of telling TooFab he believes skilled athletes are “coddled a bit of bit,” which impacts their journey on the present, it would not cease Q from wanting one other former NFL participant to return on Particular Forces subsequent season.

“Someone threw out Tom Brady, as a result of he is such a person’s man chief sort of man, however he is at all times seeking to be in cost,” Q mentioned. “Possibly he’ll be someone that comes on the present. If he does, it will be nice. I will give him hell, Tom Brady is Tom Brady, nice, however I am gonna nonetheless offer you hell, I totally different sort of hell than what he went by within the NFL.”

Watch extra of our interview with DS “Q” about this season of Particular Forces: World’s Hardest Take a look at above — the place he additionally reveals which professions he thinks do greatest on the present.