"His neighborhood at 29th Avenue and Fourth Street in Fort Lauderdale provided friends and football role models along his path. He met Frank Sanders, each 8, on a Holiday Park youth team and they became friends from Dillard High through their NFL careers. He learned from Otis Gray, the successful Dillard coach, as they won the 1989 state title. He looked up to the 1980s Miami Hurricanes from Broward like Michael Irvin and the Blades brothers, Bennie and Brian."
""Every morning I'd come to school and see a picture of Lorenzo White,'' he said. ''I always had him right there as a role model, that example right before me on how it was done.'' Bruce became an example himself, playing 15 NFL seasons, retiring as the second-leading receiver in yardage in NFL history (he's now fifth) and being inducted into the Pro Foot"
Kairethiatic Bruce read the Bible daily to her 15 children before they were born and read from Proverbs each morning as they prepared for school. Several siblings pursued ministry work. Isaac Bruce, the 13th child, combined faith and family with football, reading the Bible before games and following a plant-based diet inspired by Leviticus. He called siblings to pray after tweaking a hamstring before the 1999 playoffs. Fort Lauderdale neighborhood role models and coaches shaped his path, including Frank Sanders, coach Otis Gray, and Lorenzo White. Bruce played 15 NFL seasons, retiring as the second-leading receiver in yardage (now fifth).
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