It is hard.

It's hard when you're young to wake up in the off season at 6 a.m. to go train and work out,

knowing that all your friends are sleeping in and eating pancakes.

It's hard when you're on your way to practice, way down with all your gear,

and it's 90 degrees out and all the other kids are at the pool or at the beach and your

body is already completely exhausted from workouts in two a day. Consistent discipline has been one of

those prodigy-like strengths that I had. So I didn't have the arm that could throw the ball 80 yards I didn't have the four three speed that

Michael Vic had I didn't have the you know the size that a lot of guys had but I did have something

inside of me that no one could see from the outside this level of discipline that I could accomplish something that was really important and really special. A lot of people can be really consistent. Let's say with your diet because it's always on people's mind. Like I want to get healthy. I want to, well, most people could say, man, I want to eat healthy for one day or I want to exercise for one day. I want to be more hydrated for one day. Well, can you do

it for a week? Well, that's more discipline, right? Can you do it for a month? That's more

discipline. Can you do it for a year? That's even more discipline. I was so blessed to have this

discipline over a really long period of time.

It's hard to throw, catch, block and tackle and hit kids when they're way bigger

and way more developed than you, only to go home that night bruised and battered and strained,

but knowing you have to show up again the next day for just the chance to try again. But understand this, life is hard.

Even going into my second year in high school, there were workouts in the morning at 6 a.m. before school.

And I was like, okay, I can get up at 6 a.m. and I can go do these rope drills where

you'd run through the rope. You see a lot of people do that there were these hills that we were

run up and there was probably less than 10 people there but I was probably one of the three that were

there almost every single day to try to continue to push myself to grow in these maybe physical

areas that I was really behind a lot of other people at because naturally no one's good at everything

I mean that's just not the way life works we're all talented at certain things but we can really

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