00:00To take my footy seriously, I was only seven or eight years of age, so I went to all the training sessions and I just got so fixated on kicking the footy with my friends, the neighbours, my cousins, the local footy team that I was involved in. I never missed a training session, not ever.
00:16And I knew that if you wanted to be good at something, you have to do it over and over and over again. It doesn't matter whether it's a sport or whatever career you want to get into, you've got to live it and breathe it and you've got to keep improving every single day and you've got to keep aiming for the top.
00:35And so I did that. Before I knew it, I'd hit under 14s, under 15s and my footy was going pretty well.
00:45And I remember one training night, the president of the footy club, my local team, came out and he was talking to my coach and he said, I can see them talking in the background and the coach came over to me and he said,
00:59Hey Gavin, we just had a phone call from the great Kevin Sheedy and he said that you and your cousin, and I'll touch on my cousin in a minute, they've been playing great footy over this season and he wants to meet you guys.
01:15He's coming to play just to meet you guys. I thought that was real. I was just so excited. I was 15 years of age, about to turn 16 and I got really excited for that.
01:29So it's really important to me. I wasn't going to have to work for years as a while.
01:32I wanted to be the one who was like, oh my God, my God, my God, my Lord.
01:41I'm just going to be the one who was ê±´ê°•ing. I was going to have to play with my son and I will be the one who was helping me and I had to play my son.
01:48I got really excited about that. You've got to be my son.
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