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• ‟ There are a lot of Washingtons that have played football. I could just blend in more and carve out my own name quietly.

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• ‟ The injury that ended my time in football turned out to be serendipitous. I tore my Achilles while training for a pending tryout with the New York Giants, and when it snapped, so did my career, basically. That's what led me to gain the confidence to get into the acting world on my own terms.

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• ‟ In football, I learned about trust, handling failure, embracing discomfort, and rejection, which has helped with the auditions.

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• ‟ This is a privilege, what we get to do. To be able to tell stories. It's a luxury. So I have a business-like approach to it, the same way I had with football.

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• ‟ Coming from a football background, when everybody is doing their job and operating on such a high level, it only motivates you to do the same.

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• ‟ Football is the ultimate team sport. You're dependent on 10 other people on the field to have success on a particular play to get to the common goal, which is the win. On a set, we need everybody doing their job and pulling their weight.

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• ‟ As my father started ascending in the business, people around me started to treat me different. Our lives changed. So that anxiety, that sort of resentment, I just funneled it through football.

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• ‟ Football was the best route to obtain my independence.

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• ‟ I've failed a lot, you know, in football, and I've gone on a lot of auditions, been told no, been told I'm not right, so I know what failure feels like. It's about the work.

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