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Rick "Doc" Walker on motivation -\n"My philosophy is that you have to learn how to push your own button. . . if I teach you how to hit the reset button, then you can reestablish yourself. Because I\u2019m not going to be there to hold your hand. . . People have power within themselves, they just need help getting there."\n\nOur Town host Andy Ockershausen and Guest Rick "Doc" Walker\n\nAndy Ockershausen:\tThis is Andy Ockershausen, and this is Our Town. I've known our next guest, I don't even call him a guest, our next friend almost 40 years. That's a long time. He's a giantin his profession. He was the UCLA Lineman of the Year Honorary, a Rose Bowl Champion when he explained to me that he beat Ohio State, that ain't easy. The AP named him an All-American. Then he played starting tight-end for Coach Gibbs in the Championship game of 1983 Superbowl of the '82 champions. If you remember Doc, that was a strike year. That was then and now is now.\n\tDoc, where does he not work? He's the Redskins' pre-game show for Fox 5. He's the analyst for ESPN Radio with Sonny, Larry, and Chris Cooley. He works at Comcast Sports Network. He hosts the ProView on MASN. He owns the ProView, which is also an excellent magazine. He co-hosts a daily talk show on ESPN Radio 980. I'm exhausted just thinking about it.\n\tWhat does he do in the off-season? He has his own business. A motivational speaker and was chosen one of the regions top speakers. We'll get into that later. Where does our guest not work? Please welcome my dear friend Rick "Doc" Walker.\nRick Doc Walker\tHey Boss.\nAndy Ockershausen:\tYou are the best. Incredible. I call you because when I listen to you, you are as good an analyst as I've ever heard of a game. And I've been listening to football since the Redskins were broadcast by Harry Wismer. \nAndy Ockershausen:\tOh I know you are. You are so important to Our Town Doc. And you've gotten around so much, and what you've contributed is your thoughts to young people make a big difference. It does Doc.\nRick Doc Walker\tWell most people here are afraid of barriers. When you're in Southern California, I mean we go 100 miles to a party, like to San Diego and L.A. Well here, people from Virginia don't go to Maryland. Maryland don't go to Virginia. D.C. doesn't go to Virginia. So in most of my days I'm in Fairfax, Montgomery County, Prince George's County, all in the same day. I mean I just-\nAndy Ockershausen:\tThat's Our Town. You get around in Our Town.\nRick Doc Walker\tBut if you're not from here. People here are landlocked. And they have these fences built. And they're so limited in my opinion.\nAndy Ockershausen:\tBut the river closes a lot of that. It scares people to cross that river. I've seen it both ways, Doc.\nRick Doc Walker\tYeah, but still. I have a car. People go ... Well I'm over in Prince George's County I go, "Okay, I have a car. I'll be okay." Prince William, I go to Woodbridge, Springfield-\nAndy Ockershausen:\tWhere do you not go? Whatever happened to your restaurant that I remember so vividly.\nRick Doc Walker\tScoreboard.\nAndy Ockershausen:\tI remember Scoreboard very well.\nRick Doc Walker\tYeah, we had a great time. The problem is in that business, if you grow too fast, we had a great idea, great concept-\nAndy Ockershausen:\tGreat food, incidentally.\nRick Doc Walker\tGreat food. But if you stay in one place, you got a shot. Two, you cut your resources in half. Most people aren't worth their weight in terms of work ethic. You know the average person is lazy as hell. And so most people are out trying to get what they can take not what they can earn. So you better be in the management business, otherwise everything you have will be gone. So I've learned a lot about civilians since I stopped playing ball.\nAndy Ockershausen:\tYou almost have to live there.\nRick Doc Walker\tWell yeah, the smart people do.\nAndy Ockershausen:\tThe restaurant business.\nRick Doc Walker\tDuke was always there. He got to be there by the cash register.