JAMES KAVOUKLIS | MICHIGAN FOOTBALL 🏈

And that's just something I think about a lot whenever it comes to any activity , I'm doing sports related wise , just in terms of like , I gotta work harder , I gotta push myself . And I think that's just something like a , a good mentality that it instills in people to have . Not even just with sports , but once you get older and , and whatever your job is for a just always know there's somebody working so you gotta work even harder .

JAMES KAVOUKLIS | MICHIGAN FOOTBALL 🏈

Not even just with sports , but once you get older and , and whatever your job is for a just always know there's somebody working so you gotta work even harder . I think one thing that I focus on is making sure that I'm always mentally in the right space that I need to be in whenever I work out , whether it comes to practice lifting or even just like the mental aspect of games , like watching film . If you're not there 100% mentally , then it's just a wasted opportunity and you only get so many opportunities to , to maximize your potential .

JAMES KAVOUKLIS | MICHIGAN FOOTBALL 🏈

I think one thing that I focus on is making sure that I'm always mentally in the right space that I need to be in whenever I work out , whether it comes to practice lifting or even just like the mental aspect of games , like watching film . If you're not there 100% mentally , then it's just a wasted opportunity and you only get so many opportunities to , to maximize your potential . So it's just about taking every rep seriously .

JAMES KAVOUKLIS | MICHIGAN FOOTBALL 🏈

So it's just about taking every rep seriously . Some challenges that I face were just the mental aspect of , of how everything goes . I remember being a , a sophomore and there's this freshman kid on the team and he hadn't even played yet in a game and we had a coach come and offer him to , uh UCF and this kid ended up being a big five star recruit .

JAMES KAVOUKLIS | MICHIGAN FOOTBALL 🏈

He's just a freshman and that's just something that you gotta overcome and try not to compare yourself to others . Just always know that I gotta make sure I have the right mentality when it comes to the recruiting process and , and just making sure that I believed in myself and I trusted my abilities . So my recruiting process wasn't what the normal one was just because we had COVID going on and , and had to deal with that .