by Bob McManaman - Sept. 18, 2012 09:17 PM
azcentral sports
Each week, azcentral sports spotlights a Cardinals player for a series of on-the-spot, off-beat questions.
Today: William Gay, cornerback
Question: So you were teammates at Louisville with your current teammate Kerry Rhodes. Tell me, was he as talkative then as he is now?
Answer: Yeah. Kerry is a born leader. He had that at Louisville and he had that being a quarterback back in high school. You take those characteristics from the position you played and you still keep them. He's always been a guy that motivates so I'm pretty used to it.
Q: You were a quarterback at Rickards High School in Tallahassee, Fla., weren't you?
A: I wouldn't call it a quarterback, I'd just say athlete.
Q: What do you mean?
A: When I played quarterback, the most I usually threw in a game was like six passes. They were deep throws, but I never threw the ball 20 times or anything like that. We ran the option.
Q: So you were like Michigan's Denard Robinson then?
A: Yeah, pretty much. He's a great quarterback. But when I got to Louisville, they told me they didn't need me to play quarterback, just play defensive back.
Q: I understand you have a girlfriend that's quite an athlete. She's a track star, right?
A: Yes, her name is Natasha Hastings and she runs the 400 meters. A great athlete, an Olympian. She made the 2008 team and has been on world-championship teams. She's got gold medals everywhere, just a natural-born athlete.
Q: How long have you been going out with her?
A: Two and a half years.
Q: How'd you meet her?
A: I met her down in Miami during the off-season. She was there celebrating her birthday and we ran into each other. I couldn't let her go after that.
Q: What was the one line or thing you said that made her fall for you?
A: I don't know. I was just being myself. It must have just been the swag and the demeanor that I have about myself.
Q: Confidence. Is that what it is?
A: (Laughs) I'm from Florida. That's all we do.
Q: Yeah, Darnell Dockett tells me that all the time. But hey, when you came here on your free-agent visit, you weren't so confident or cocky that you demanded to be a starter, correct? You were just willing to fill whatever role you could?
A: See, the demeanor I have, coming from where I come from, it's all about wins. You don't worry about stats. You don't worry about whether you're starting. It's about Ws , because at the end of the day, that's what the fans care about, that's what the league cares about and that's what people remember you by. They don't care if you started eight, nine 10 years. Who cares? How many games did you win? How many championships you got? That's my demeanor.
Q: The Cardinals have embraced that type of philosophy lately. Could you see some of that in this team when you signed here?
A: Well, before I even signed, I asked the head coach what direction the team was going because it starts at the top with leadership. And he (Ken Whisenhunt) told me, "We're all about wins and winning championships." That's the only thing I wanted to know. He said, "I don't care what the name is on the back of the jersey, I just want to win." When he said that, that's what brought me to the mindset where you know it's legitimate.
Q: So Coach Whiz has some swag, too, huh?
A: Yeah. Because he let me know, "I'm not promising you nothing. I'm putting the best guys on the field." I told him, "Good, that's all I can ask for."
Q: The defense has played two pretty stellar games now. How happy are you to see the progression you're making as a unit?
A: We've got a lot more to do. Going 2-0 don't say nothing about our season, so you just move on and you've got to know you've been here before, you know how to win. You've got to stay on an even keel or you're going to get knocked down by somebody. That's what you're going to see out of me all year. I'm not going to get too high and I'm not going to get too low.
Q: Tell us about the William Gay off the field that we don't know. What's he like?
A: The same. I don't change for nobody. What you see on the field is what you see off the field. Like I said, I don't get too high and I don't get too low.
Q: Yeah, but you seem really approachable and introspective about things. Do you consider yourself a deep thinker?
A: Not necessarily a deep thinker. I'm from the South so my Southern hospitality makes me approachable.
Q: If you invited me and a date over to you and your girlfriend's place, what kind if hospitality would we get?
A: First, I'm going to offer you a bottle of water to make sure you're not thirsty. And then I'll let my girlfriend entertain y'all because she knows how to entertain guests. Whatever you need, this is your house for the moment. It's not my house. I'll sit back, y'all sit back, and we'll just enjoy ourselves.
Q: Sounds great. But what if I wanted a beer instead of a bottle of water?
A: (Laughs) Ain't no beer in our house, man. We're athletes.
19 Sep, 2012
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Source: http://www.azcentral.com/sports/articles/2012/09/18/20120918outside-huddle-arizona-cardinals-cb-william-gay-discusses-qb-background-girlfriend-more.html
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