Ryan Coogler
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Yeah, like in the Bay, I was agnostic, man.
I had Tim Hardaway, Warriors around TMC.
Down the road, I would get into other athletes.
Hakeem Olajuwon was a big one for me.
And then football-wise, once I started playing receiver, I liked all the receivers, man.
Randy Moss, Terrell Owens, Tim Brown, Steve Smith, who was Steve Smith I loved because he was short like I was and was still out there making it happen.
But, I mean, I also knew that, like, you know, I would meet players like Maurice Jones, Drew, or Marshawn Lynch, like, players I would play against, and I'd be like, man, they got a lot better than me.
You were like, oh, they're going to be.
You come across players that's like, oh, that's something different.
And that was kind of how I also kind of could see early maybe football wasn't going to be what I did forever.