"I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles." — Gabriel Luna

Football shape is one thing, and then 'futbol' shape is a completely other thing. It's a whole other level of fitness that you have to work to maintain.

While American football is very structured and linear and static - where everyone lines up, and there's a burst, and it happens - soccer is like the cosmos. It's like constellations. It's bodies moving in space. It's a very spherical game.

I played soccer, recreationally, in college.

My mother had me when she was 15. My father died before I was born. So my mother was a teenage widow, and she used herself as her greatest example so I wouldn't end up in her position.

Austin is almost a million people, but it still feels like a relatively small town. Everybody knows each other. Or at least everyone in the filmmaking community.

I actually had a nickname as a player myself. When I played high school football in Texas, strong safety, they called me Choo Choo because they said I hit like a train.

I've been playing American football since I was six years old. I was a captain of my high school team, playing strong safety.

The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.

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I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.