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• ‟ I always wanted to play in the NFL. I decided to go to Florida State University as my college to play football because the coach there - Bobby Bowden - had a pedigree and acumen for putting players into the league.

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• ‟ Football has never left me. I still wake up in the morning and think of the operating room like a game, like it's showtime, let's perform.

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• ‟ A lot of the same joy and adrenaline rush that I felt after making a good play or winning in football I feel now after a successful surgery.

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• ‟ I spent three weeks lamenting, ruminating and praying because football had been part of my life since age 6. Then I moved on. I'm glad I always had another clear plan. Several of my FSU teammates did not and do not. It's hard to leave a sport that is embedded in you.

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• ‟ Football has done so much for me, given me friends, family, given me life lessons that now I can use in the operating room or just as a leader.

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• ‟ When I was younger, trying to afford football camps, my parents would sometimes have to miss bills. They sacrificed these things for me because they saw I had a goal.

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• ‟ I'm glad that I walked into my purpose. I'm glad that I walked into something that was a smooth transition from football.

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• ‟ Yes, I understand that football and sports in America have been a way for us to get away from some of our most daunting moments. It's a way for us to bring the country together.

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• ‟ Football helped me tremendously, and that's why I want the sport to stay because it's so valuable. It's helped me be a better physician today, certainly. I've learned discipline. I've learned focus, teamwork, communication.

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• ‟ I've wanted to do medicine actually before I started playing football.

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• ‟ I wanted to be completely and totally entrenched, immersed in this football life, this culture all the way, so you don't even have a thought, an inkling, that my mind is somewhere else.

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• ‟ When there's something we weren't prepared for on the football field, you have to be able to use your mind, be creative, communicate, get lined up and get ready to do the play, get ready to execute.

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• ‟ Neurosurgery is a new challenge with each case. The preparation, the discipline, the technical skills and the need to perform at your very best under pressure provide the same adrenaline rush I had in football.

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• ‟ First I was still excited and elated about winning the Rhodes scholarship. That was an amazing feat. But then I put my iPod on and started listening to my pre-game music and started to switch my mind to football and was just hoping that the jet would land as quickly as possible so that I could get on the field and help my teammates win the game.

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