The confidence within Michael Penix Jr. | Atlanta Falcons

The confidence within Michael Penix Jr. | Atlanta Falcons | NFL

I’ll never say I had much self-confidence issues. They can’t mess with us. Spins free. Watching for the end zone. Forget being patient and Washington takes the lead. Dangerous. You know, come from a small city, you know, not not too many people from where I grew up made it made it to where I’m at today, yet alone being drafted, you know, as high as I was. you feel like you have to have to be this, you know, super superman and you have to be perfect because you you’re the one that everybody in the in the city that you came from is looking up to, you know, but at the end of the day, you know, you just got to continue to be yourself. I’m telling you, bro, game day, I’m not missing. Oh, I’m ding. Why we got to wait? We ain’t got to wait. We ain’t got to score at 3 seconds. We score right now. I feel like the role that football played in shaping me who I am today is first and foremost my dad he was actually my coach growing up you know and it taught me toughness you know it taught me leadership the definition of leadership is influence so how are you influencing the people around you you know their day-to-day stuff you know is if are you coming in the same person each and every day or are you just riding riding the emotional roller coaster you know and for me I I try to be the same person each and every day you know stay stay as calm and cool and collected as possible. And that that’s just me right now. We ain’t got to wait no more. Hey, we got we on three. We win on three. One, two, three. Confidence is big, you know. It’s it’s the way that you carry yourself. When whenever I do have that confident smile, I can see the energy of everybody that’s around me. You know, their their energy raises up as well. You know, when it allows people to know that, you know, you’re in a good place and a lot of people want to be a part of it. Now up in the pocket, Penn. Did he get in? Yes. Touchdown Atlanta. Pennocks. A good shot to London. Touchdown Atlanta. Oh my goodness. What a throw. You’re not always going to be perfect out there on the football field. You know, I might make make great plays. I might make bad plays, but you know, at the end of the day, you know, I feel like it it brings confidence knowing that knowing that you know who you are deep down inside and that whatever whatever you do out there on the field. Speaking for myself, it it doesn’t define who I am as a person. So it I’m always confident no matter what. Let’s go. Hey man, y’all boy go to sleep, man. That’s a touchdown. Ref said touchdown. We ain’t got no review today. Ain’t no review out here. So one of my coaches actually uh came up to me earlier in the week, you know, after playing a bad game and, you know, just told me I don’t have to be Superman. I don’t have to do more than, you know, what what I’m asked to do. And uh I I feel like that helped me a lot because you know sometimes you feel like you you get into moments where you want to try to do everything right. You want to do everything you know so perfect but at the end of the day you know just being yourself is good enough. And you know for for my coach to be able to tell me that it gave me a lot of confidence going into the game and you know it just allowed me to you know just relax a little bit and go out there and just have fun and you know everything else will fall in place. [Music]

Michael Penix Jr. speaks on the importance of confidence and having the right mindset to be able to shine in adversity. Presented by Invisalign.