Ray Lewis spoke about Aaron Hernandez with SI. Read the full discussion of his role with ESPN here.
“What you are comfortable with is what you know,” Lewis says. “If you don’t know something, don’t speak about it. Bad rumors and bad messages get out when people identify with something they have no clue about. You can only speak from true experience. If a kid is not doing the right freaking things off the field, that is very simple: He needs to figure it out. He needs to get around the right crowd. He needs to have more balance. Those things are very simple, I think, to be comfortable talking about.”
Asked if he should be a part of any studio conversation about Hernandez, Lewis says, “It would only be to give a brief explanation on what you know. Because if you are talking about getting into the case—what happened, how it happened—that’s the judge’s job, that’s the police’s job. Having gone through the things I have been through, what I learned from that is everybody has something they want to say, and 80 percent of them are illiterate. You have to be careful with it. You can’t speak about something you do not know. Give your opinion, and keep it moving from there.”
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