Uh , obviously I wasn't some high five star blue chip recruit or anything like that , which is kind of why I think I have an interesting story , you know , obviously , like I said , I played my senior high school , had a couple of offers , wasn't really sure what I wanted to do if I wanted to play college basketball or college football or college basketball or not . But then I sat down and I'm pretty big in my faith and , you know , a after talking to God and all that stuff , he had kinda showed me the football route . And , uh , so that's when I decided to go to prep school in that summer before I went to prep school .
And , you know , I think that is an underrated part of being an athlete is just , you know , if you work harder than anyone else that that's gonna come and show in the future . So really just believe in yourself . Follow your dreams and work as hard as you can at them every day and , yeah , that's about it .
So being a student athlete , you have to be able to manage your time and just , you know , focus on the things that you came here to focus on , I guess , you know , there's always gonna be people that try to bring you down or tell you what you can and can't do . But the important thing is to just trust your work and , and trust , you know , what you've done and the , and the things you've done to get where you're at and , um , just continue to push on and , and press on as long as you can and just work as hard as you can and work harder than anyone else . And , you know , I think that is an underrated part of being an athlete is just , you know , if you work harder than anyone else that that's gonna come and show in the future .
But if I know where , you know the corner , the safety and the linebacker are gonna be in that play , it just makes my job that much easier and , you know , leaves me to be open if the play calls for that . So honestly , in the , I don't think any of us really realized how much of an impact it would have on us . But yeah , it , it was surreal .
He just taught me about work ethic and just what it takes to get what you want and understanding that people are gonna tell you things that you can't do and can do . But it's your choice whether to listen to them . So I think the important thing is , is to just focus in on what you want and uh work hard until you get there .
