I play football here at UCLA . The best pieces of advice , uh , I usually get from my mentors and , you know , uh , my other peers is usually like , uh , just to keep going , you know what I'm saying , because things could get hard down the road , you know , especially as a student athletes , you know , we have school , you know , we have workouts and you know it's a lot of time consuming things going on so I would say like uh my best piece of advice is like keep going , you know what I'm saying , even through , you know , the hard things , good things , you know what I'm saying , and give , give praise to the man upstairs . The most important things I focus on during training is usually like uh my flexibility , you know what I'm saying um you know some athletes like to skip , you know , the flexibility part , you know , and usually like to stretch and that's real , that's a real key thing though and uh a longevity of your career , so flexibility , um , another thing is , uh , I like to work on speed .
Kobe Bryant , he , he played that year , you know , so like I had a lot of older guys that I looked up to , you know what I'm saying , they led the way perfectly , you know what I'm saying , so like I just wanna , you know , give a shout out to them guys for , you know , laying a blueprint down for , you know , the younger guys coming up behind . Uh , the advice I would give guys who are transferring , you know , and trying to find somewhere , uh , it's a feeling , you know what I'm saying , you know when it's right , it's really not like , you know , more , it's not , you know , more say so it's more like , you know , it's a feeling , you know what I'm saying , like the love , you know what I'm saying , when I took my official here I felt a lot of love from the coaches and like that's what uh made me like . Made my decision for real because like it wasn't just all about football it was really , you know , genuine , you know how you're doing , you know what I'm saying it wasn't just all about football it's real love , build a real connection really film study , you know , um , that's the one thing that's made me better as a player .
You know , I was around a lot of older guys and , uh , you know , not to , well , to mention a couple of them , uh , Brian Cook , he was the one I had to pick again in the Super Bowl , uh , played for the Chiefs , um , Ama So Gardner , he , uh , he played that year . Kobe Bryant , he , he played that year , you know , so like I had a lot of older guys that I looked up to , you know what I'm saying , they led the way perfectly , you know what I'm saying , so like I just wanna , you know , give a shout out to them guys for , you know , laying a blueprint down for , you know , the younger guys coming up behind . Uh , the advice I would give guys who are transferring , you know , and trying to find somewhere , uh , it's a feeling , you know what I'm saying , you know when it's right , it's really not like , you know , more , it's not , you know , more say so it's more like , you know , it's a feeling , you know what I'm saying , like the love , you know what I'm saying , when I took my official here I felt a lot of love from the coaches and like that's what uh made me like .
What matters first , you know , um , I love the game of football , you know what I'm saying ? Education comes with that too , so you know , and I need that . So I , I usually like , you know , after football , you know , because we have football in the mornings I usually right after practice , you know what I'm saying , I get checking my student , you know , and then look at my assignments to see , you know , really just like , you know what I'm saying , it's time consuming , so you really gotta be good with your time , you know , so what I do is , you know , have to practice I come home .
Honestly , you know , um , NIL world is getting crazy so like some of the craziest , well , I'm not even gonna say the craziest thing , but like , uh , I wanna , uh , one of my teammates that I used to play with at Cincinnati , things happened and , uh , you know , like I've seen like a lot of , you know . And I , you know , change people's lives , you know , change people's family lives . So like that's where like I see like the NIO , bro , like yeah it's good , but like you know I , I like that like NIO is giving kids a chance chance that's giving kids a chance to change their family lives .
