A few years ago I had a couple injuries back to back. A lot of people were telling me I wouldn’t be able to come back from those injuries and become a good football player. I shut out what everyone was saying because they weren’t putting in the work I was for me, and they couldn’t change anything about me. I stayed focused and got healthier and became a varsity starter a few months after recovering from injury.

The person who pushed me the most was my dad. He would always push me through the hurt and soreness both mental and physical so I can get that extra edge on my competition.

Being unseen isn’t because people aren’t looking, it’s because you aren’t giving them a reason to look. It isn’t on anyone else but yourself to make yourself seen. You have to put yourself out into the open to be seen, hoping to be seen by chance is the downfall of any athlete with potential.

Quitting is never an option because there are only two things that come from quitting. The first is you prove the doubters right. Everyone who might say you won’t become anything would be telling the truth if you quit. And the second is you would be proving yourself wrong. Starting anything worth doing shows people you want to become better. And it shows yourself you can become better, but when things get hard and you try to quit you go against the first thought you had when starting something. And those are the worst two things you can ever do. The BOTB mindset is that the haters are always wrong, which means quitting is the opposite of the BOTB mindset, and therefore quitting is never an answer and the BOTB lifestyle is always the answer.