From football to basketball season, I did not have any time off. That's hard, especially on your body. Your body changes based on the sport and it was good to have a couple of weeks of rest before track.

I moved from Florida when I was younger, and sports, especially basketball, were a good way to make friends. I grew up idolizing Michael Jordan, so that had a lot of influence on me.

I grew up watching Westbrook basketball games and saw some of those winning teams we had in the past and it's something I've always wanted to be a part of. It's been hard lately because we're lacking some talent, but hopefully next year we can turn things around.

We played hard almost 100 percent of the time. Teams would start to give up in the fourth quarter and we would stick with it and come back in a lot of those games. Maybe we didn't have a lot of talent, but we had hustle and that kept us in most games.

We spend a lot of time together playing football and basketball and lifting weights all the time.

I was too short for basketball and too little for football, ... They had (three-time NFL Pro Bowler) Bucko Kilroy about a year ahead of me. He was full-grown then.