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Anytime you're rewarded for the success you have, you're going to be happy because you put the body of work in. A lot of hard work. A lot of training. A lot of things you do behind the scenes. ”
Obviously you've got God-given talent to do things that a lot of people can't do but I actually put the body of work in to get stronger, get faster, trying to work on my technique, trying to do little things that people usually don't do, just trying to improve my game. ”
It's not that hard to be good, you can be good off raw talent. But I feel like it's that extra step, doing work and putting a body of work in and doing things when nobody else is watching. When nobody else is telling you to do it, you're pushing yourself to do it. ”
Anytime you get rewarded for all the work you put into this game, you're going to be happy about it. ”
It's what you work for and grind for. Just to get out there and play the game and try to help your team to win. And in doing that, you just help yourself. ”
I feel like I've got a lot of football things I need to work on to have that success that I want to have in this league. ”
A lot of my success, and a lot of who I am now, is because of my dad, and the way he raised me and taught me how to have a work ethic. ”
A lot of times, we look at jazz in eras. How can we not keep those eras separate and think of the language as one complete continuum? It's all interrelated, and it's all evolutionary. ”
My grandfather, Arthur Baskerville, he played and still plays a little bit piano and trombone, and so when I was a kid, I always heard jazz around the house, but I also went to his gigs, whether it be a Saturday brunch in my hometown Columbus, Ohio. We'd go and hear him play with some of the local musicians. ”
When I see young people interested in music. I always look out for that passion in their eyes. You never know where that might lead. ”