“That’s the love of my life, man. To be the man I am today, a lot of that has to do with her and the things she wasn’t going to tolerate. I had to change parts of who I was in order to be with her.” — Brian Dawkins on his wife, Connie
Brian Dawkins doesn’t know where he would be today without his wife. Well, actually, that’s not quite true. He does know.
He’d be dead.
He’d be in a bronze box in a cemetery somewhere instead of standing next to a bronze bust of himself Saturday night in Tom Benson Stadium in Canton, Ohio, making his acceptance speech for the Pro Football Hall of Fame.