And that's how it's been all my life is, you know, if I don't have to work for it, then I don't want it.

I think for me, growing up, I was always a competitive kid.

My family is a lot of us, especially on my mom's side, we compete every single day.

We wake up in the morning, who can brush our teeth first? So the competitive nature is rooted in me deep.

but i would say uh one of the main stories i always say was take it back to my freshman year of high school you know i was always you know always been kind of a smaller guy smaller than anybody but like just compete and uh my dad took me to a u of h baseball camp actually uh we went it was like a showcase camp and i remember just you know the confidence being so high going into that telling my dad oh man i'm gonna leave with a sec offer today like you know i'm a freshman i'm maybe 120 pounds But, you know, I get there and we start going through the workouts and everything.

You know, there's seniors there, there's bigger kids, there's 18-year-olds.

And I remember I went out and I ran maybe like a 7, 8, 16.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

going into that telling

my dad oh man i'm gonna leave with the sec offer today like you know i'm a freshman i'm maybe a hundred and 20 pounds.

But, you know, I get there and we start going through the workouts and everything.

You know, there's seniors there, there's bigger kids, there's 18-year-olds.

And I remember I went out and I ran maybe like a 7, 8, 16.

You know, I didn't even hit a ball out of the infield.

which is not good not good uh you know play well in the game but you know we get our evaluation card at the end and they have they have written on there kind of what they expect you to be or what they would rank your level as and you know they put on my sheet it said i wouldn't even be a juco player i wouldn't even be a college baseball player And I just remember getting in the car after that and, you know, I just cried.

yeah.