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🗓️ 25 September 2018
⏱️ 8 minutes
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If you're interested in being a part of the Young Ambitious Athlete test group, and you’re an athlete within the age range of 13-19, apply at imnotyou.com/yaa
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the sports motivation podcast. |
0:02.3 | This is your host, Niyos Chobo. |
0:04.4 | This is a special announcement for the young, ambitious athletes. |
0:08.3 | All right. |
0:08.8 | So that means athletes ranging anywhere from ages 13 to 19, those who are in high school, |
0:14.3 | middle school, really, really focused on taking their game to the next level, |
0:18.5 | who really want to be killers on the field or court, |
0:25.6 | understand and value the importance of mindset, and really need some help in getting there. And so stay tuned for a second, but I'm doing this because I feel a sense of obligation and a sense of duty. |
0:34.6 | So let me give you a little story about how I started literally |
0:38.4 | to come to do what I do now. All right. So when I played football, let me back up. I started |
0:44.2 | playing football in seventh grade. Come from a soccer family and I fell in love with football |
0:50.2 | right when I played. I remember the first practice. It was like I was so intrigued with the idea and the fact that I can hit people and tackle people and then have to be part of the game. |
1:01.0 | Not only that, I really, really loved the strategy behind it, even though I had no idea what I was doing. |
1:06.0 | It just seemed so complex in a really cool way. So I fell in love with football, played in high school as well, |
1:13.9 | obviously started middle school, played in high school, and I had to catch the bus to my local |
1:19.4 | or not my local, yeah, to my local high school from the private school that I went to. So I went to |
1:24.2 | a private school that I was like 30 minutes away from my house. Then I would have to catch the bus, which took me like an hour from my high school to my local high school to play football there. |
1:37.2 | And it was a challenge, but I did it because I loved it. |
1:39.7 | I loved playing football. |
1:40.9 | Then I walked on at Oregon State, played there for three years, got a scholarship to |
1:47.5 | Portland State, balled out my last season, played two years in the NFL before getting released |
1:52.4 | from the Saints the year they won the Super Bowl, and had two injuries to my shoulders during that time. |
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