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

In an unique interview with TooFab, Q stated once they had been first given the listing of celebrities for this season, he had no concept who would make it. “I had no concept 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 is likely to be a man who might in all probability get to the tip,'” he stated earlier than naming Marion Jones — a former Olympian — as somebody who stood out to him.

Nevertheless, each Hart and Jones needed to go away the course early on account of 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 stated, “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 assume she ought to go to handle it.”

Q famous that a number of the “pro-athletes” do not all the time end, including that they do not have the psychological capabilities wanted. “It is actually, really the mindset of an individual,” Q stated, earlier than including that “the primary factor it’s a must to 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 through 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 undoubtedly a soccer fan of his — he naturally has a giant ego. He was born with each bodily attribute you’ll be able to ask for, the peak, the dimensions, the velocity, the quickness, so he already comes with a degree of ego that he has to struggle with himself to interrupt that factor down,” Q stated.

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

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

“Any person threw out Tom Brady, as a result of he is such a person’s man chief kind of man, however he is all the time trying to be in cost,” Q stated. “Possibly he’ll be anyone that comes on the present. If he does, it’s going to be nice. I will give him hell, Tom Brady is Tom Brady, nice, however I am gonna nonetheless provide you with hell, I totally different kind 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 finest on the present.