Help identify this tree

almost looks like a giant bay laurel, never seen a big one, are the leaves soft or somewhat rigid

Balsa?

I am willing to go as far as to say that I am quite certain it is not pine. Sorry, after that I am no help. 

What part of Florida?
Does it bloom flowers?
What color are the flowers if so?
Thinking it might be a type of dog wood.

Kinda looks like dogwood 

Leaf looks to shiny/ waxy looking for dogwood, more in the Laural  family.

Going to go with Dog Wood.

Live oak-

Dave in Florida said:

Thank you for any help.

Looks like a live oak, especially after looking at this pic. Live oaks have a bright green waxy leaf on top and a grayish green on the backside. At the bottom right of this pic, looks like I see a grayish green back on the leaves. 

I thought it was a live oak as well. 

I say it's a ficus. Bring it inside and see if all its leaves fall off. That's what ours does when we bring it in in the fall. 

(I'm joking but it does look like a big fig tree based on the leaves alone - guessing here but now I want to know). 

I'm stumped. No pun intended.  

From more googling: it could very well be a laurel oak (also known as a Darlington oak).  Both live oak (Quercus virginiana), and laurel oaks (Quercus laurifolia) are native to Florida. Both species have multiple sub-species that can look sufficiently different to make ID by an amateur difficult.  There are a number of "how to tell a laurel oak from a live oak" websites and magazine articles, indicating the common challenge.
Here is one photo showing an example of both types in a single pic.

Here is closeup of a laurel bark from the Pinellas County, FL ag extension agency.

and one of live oak bark from the same place.

Probably the most helpful picture is unfortunately only available in a PDF file, and not easy to download.  It is from the Lee County, FL ag extension agency. Here is a screen capture of photo of the bottom side of both types of leaves.