EZAVIER STAPLES | UCLA FOOTBALL 🏈

It's all , it's all a process . So understanding that it's a process like you're gonna have challenges at all points of your career . Um But recently some challenges that I've had to overcome is my first year , my first year being here for at UCLA , I actually got hurt in a car accident and um unfort very unfortunate , obviously , adversity is adversity , but like that hitting me like it was just , this is my first year of playing football .

EZAVIER STAPLES | UCLA FOOTBALL 🏈

Um So just from that , from all that I took me coming back more personal . So the challenge that challenge brought me the chance to bring to come back to football and be and take it more personal . Take more like , well , this is something I'm given every day .

EZAVIER STAPLES | UCLA FOOTBALL 🏈

So my support system was very encouraging . You go through things like adversity , you go through things like hard workouts , you go through things like school , you go through things like family issues . So I just feel like being able to stay mentally strong and just keeping your mind positive .

EZAVIER STAPLES | UCLA FOOTBALL 🏈

It could be taken to from me like this . So put your best efforts into it , put your mind to it , put do everything the right way so that you don't have to go through challenges like that and it be and it takes such a big toll on you . But I had a couple of friends though that , that I felt like really got me through my , my depression phase .

EZAVIER STAPLES | UCLA FOOTBALL 🏈

So understanding that it's a process like you're gonna have challenges at all points of your career . Um But recently some challenges that I've had to overcome is my first year , my first year being here for at UCLA , I actually got hurt in a car accident and um unfort very unfortunate , obviously , adversity is adversity , but like that hitting me like it was just , this is my first year of playing football . Um now , um , um , I haven't had any experience .