![]() ![]() ![]() Once you become a starter, don't be satisfied with being a starter, try to be a good enough football player to earn a scholarship. If you're a Freshman in high school, and you get picked to be on the varsity team, don't be satisfied with that. You have to have that mind set, that every level I get to, I'm never going to be satisfied. "Don't ever say, 'Hey, I made it.' Because the day you say that, is the day stuff starts to fall apart. People laughing at you now, they might be loving you later." I'm always encouraging kids, keep hammering at it. Kids have got to realize that: It's one of the positions that plays longest in the NFL, and pays the best over a long period of time. I love playing it, and I love breaking it down, to the point now that when I watch NFL football, I'm watching offensive linemen. If you know how to play that right now, and master that right now, you're going to be able to set yourself up for a long time later on in your career, once you get older.' I took that advice, and I've been a lineman all my life, so I know a lot about playing offensive line. Once I got a little older, my high school coach said, 'Hey, there's going to come a time where offensive lineman are going to be one of the highest paid positions in the NFL. It was like a joke to be on the line, because it was a no glory position. "Offensive lineman was always the position nobody wanted to play. ![]()
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