"I guess everyone kind of has different talents and either does really well in school or doesn't do well in school. But that's across the whole country, kids in athletics and kids outside athletics…

"Our whole student body, there's multidisciplinary studies (majors). At the end of the day, you want to be a finance major and you fail calculus, you're gonna have to find something else to do. That’s just the real world, right?... You have to gravitate to something you can succeed in. It's either that or fail.

"At the end of the day, everyone has different abilities, on the field and in the classroom. All of you are the same way. You have to work with that to get the best education you're able to get. Not everyone is a 4.0 and can do whatever they want to do. Sometimes you have to work within your skill and your mental ability.

"Another part of that is hard is a guy willing to work. You guys went to school with some guys that didn't work so hard and didn't probably do so well. I know I did. Then I went to school with some guys that worked really hard and did really well.

"In most things, you get about what you put into it and how hard work at it, and what your talent is, what your skill is."