Mayor Rob Ford told high school kids taking part in the Bay Street Bootcamp to "never give up" before then fleeing reporters and ignoring questions about his behaviour as a high school football coach.
The mayor — who is running for re-election — has been ignoring questions from the media since Wednesday when the Toronto Catholic District School Board documents chronicling his tumultuous time as coach of the Don Bosco Eagles football team were released.
Ford kept ignoring questions about the documents after delivering a speech at an event hosted by the Jr. Economic Club event on Friday.
The speech to high school students from across Ontario was billed as Ford speaking about "financial literacy" but the roughly 10-minute talk was mostly a motivational pep talk that provided some insight into the embattled mayor's view of the world as a perpetual fight.
"The only thing that can take you out of the race or out of business, I truly believe, is the person upstairs," Ford told the students. "As long as you can get up in the morning, you got 90%, 95% of life beaten. The rest is a fight — day in and day out. Keep fighting, keep swinging cause you will succeed … and don't listen to all the naysayers, stay focused as best you can.
"Anything worth something is hard. And the easy part is getting to the top. The hardest part is staying on top … 'cause once you're on top, everyone wants to take a shot."
Ford — who brought his young son Doug with him to the event — has spent more than a year embroiled in scandal and refusing to resign despite calls for him to quit.
While he didn't mention any of his own political battles, the ongoing police investigation focused on him or his admitted alcohol and drug addictions, the speech did hint at Ford's own refusal to throw in the towel.
"Never, ever, ever give up no matter what is thrown at you," he told the youth. "You keep soldiering on."
"You're going to have a lot of people coming at you, be it in business, be it in your own personal life, in education, wherever you go there is going to be people that are going to want to come after you, for whatever reason."
He encouraged the kids to "stay the course."
"Every single business, every single family, every single person has problems," he added.
"Just get up and keep going."
The mayor told the students: "You could tell me, Rob, go jump in the lake.
"A lot of people told me that, the problem is I keep swimming back to shore," Ford said. "Never give up, no matter what the world throws at you."
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