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 . I like to work on speed a lot because , uh , you know what I'm saying , speed kills , so , uh , that's another thing that , uh .
I work on a lot . My coach , he , he has a , a real big emphasis on , uh , stretching my body , so , uh , you know , the muscles and you know , can , you know , repair and restore right and , um , usually like , uh . Like , uh , real small trainings , you know what I'm saying , drop downs , you know what I'm saying , or boxes , so , you know , as soon as the , uh , feet touch the ground , get out , you know what I'm saying , sled pushes , you know , sled pulls and stuff like that , you know , work on speed .
My coach , he , he has a , a real big emphasis on , uh , stretching my body , so , uh , you know , the muscles and you know , can , you know , repair and restore right and , um , usually like , uh . Like , uh , real small trainings , you know what I'm saying , drop downs , you know what I'm saying , or boxes , so , you know , as soon as the , uh , feet touch the ground , get out , you know what I'm saying , sled pushes , you know , sled pulls and stuff like that , you know , work on speed . One of the toughest things I've faced , uh , in my life is usually , uh , I usually , I call it my cursing , my curse and my blessing because , uh , I got shot at 14 and um .
I just , you know , that was really probably the hardest thing I had faced the first few was taking summers off , you know what I'm saying , uh , you know , cutting the fun out just , you know , getting back to to the ground like , uh . Like , you know , working out every day , going to training , you know what I'm saying , my friends calling me telling me , come hang , I don't got time , you know what I'm saying , because my dream is to , you know , get to the league , so I really take that , take that stuff serious . Actually I started my career at the University of Cincinnati , uh , in 2021 .
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 . You know , I already look at my schedule for the week on Sundays .
