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"I would just say to definitely continue to want to learn and evolve your game. Learn new tactics and different parts of the game. Play different positions as well. If there's things that you know are strengths that you have, keep strengthening them. Identify the weaknesses and also look to strengthen those. Then with all that, just enjoy your process. Enjoy your journey. Have fun and don’t think too far ahead. It helped me a ton, so I would just say: “Don't think too far into the future and just enjoy where you're at. Really be where you're at because it goes by really fast. It's manageable. It's doable. You can do it.”"
— Yazmeen on pieces of advice she would give to young athletes who want to play soccer at the professional level.
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Lamonte Harris
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"When you build your team, deal with people that you know you can trust without a doubt. Look at the people around you, see what they're doing, and then learn from their situations. I've always been a person who learns from other people’s situations and applied that to myself business-wise. I've always been one of those people that if somebody isn't successful at something, I want to know why. I want to know what happened there, right? I want to see: “How can I take that and apply that to myself?” So you have to be a student. You have to be a student of life, you have to just be a sponge around other people, and you have to always be learning."
— Lamonte on pieces of advice he would give to someone who wants to start his or her own sports marketing firm.
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David Joplin
College Basketball Player, Marquette University
"The best piece of advice I could give to my younger self would be: “You can do it. Keep working. You will go through adversity. You will have days where things won’t go as great—(not only) on the court, but off the court too because we're still human beings. You know, things might be happening where people aren't feeling well, people go away, people pass away, and things of that nature. But, you're built for all this stuff. Everything that happens is for a reason. You can handle it, you just gotta keep working and keep trusting in the people around you.” That's definitely the advice I would give to myself—to just keep working, stay in the gym, (continue to) work on my game, and keep my head up."
— David on a piece of advice he would give to his younger self.
Jalen Williams
College Basketball Player, Clark Atlanta University
"I'd say: “Be who you are. Be different. Don't look at somebody else's situation and always think it's your situation. Make sure you choose the best situation for you. Continue just to strive to be the best you can. Whether that's at a PWI or an HBCU, you can get the same opportunities as them. Everybody puts their shoes on in the same way. Don’t find yourself running away from an opportunity because you're looking at the next person’s. Just be who you are and stay true to yourself.”"
— Jalen on pieces of advice he would give to young athletes who want to play basketball at the collegiate level.
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