Mastering Pressure, Adversity, and Expectations - Quarterback Riley Leonard

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🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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What does the road to a college football National Championship look like? On this week’s episode of the WHOOP Podcast, WHOOP Founder and CEO Will Ahmed sits down with former Notre Dame Quarterback Riley Leonard. Riley began his college career playing 7 games for Duke as a true freshman in 2021 and was named starting QB in his sophomore season in 2022. In 2023, Riley entered the transfer portal, ultimately transferring to Notre Dame. While Riley almost entered the 2024 NFL Draft, an injury pus...

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0:00.0	I had something to prove.
0:01.0	Like, my back was against the wall.
0:02.9	Like, I didn't care what anybody said.
0:05.0	It was just kind of like us against the world, like Notre Dame versus everybody,
0:09.2	because everybody's going to count us out.
0:10.6	Like, my first couple home games, I'm getting booed.
0:12.9	Like, we had so much to prove.
0:14.6	And I think that just came out of, like, our integrity and the character in that building again.
0:19.3	Because you got to recruit a special person to go to Notre Dame
0:22.2	and it's very easy after, you know, an early loss for everybody to be like, all right, I'm just trying
0:27.2	to get mine. Like, you know, I'm just trying to go to league at this point. No, we had a vision
0:31.2	and a clear goal to make it to where we ended up making it to.
0:37.3	Riley, welcome to the Woof podcast.
0:39.1	Appreciate you having, man.
0:40.2	What a season, unbelievable.
0:42.3	It was wild.
0:43.1	A lot of ups and downs.
0:44.3	Dude, who would have thought all we went through and ended up, you know, in the
0:48.0	national championship games?
0:49.0	It was a lot to remember, fun one, but, you know, came up a little short, but no regrets.
0:55.0	You know, sometimes athletes have feeling at the beginning of a season like, hey, I've got
1:00.4	a special team here. We might be able to go the distance. Did you guys have that kind of
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