About how just started practicing with the first team this past Wednesday, despite being projected to start as far back as 2009, Kenny Estes sad:
"I take every day as it is. I can't think of the future — or the past." (HSA)
About being their #1 free safety this spring, with Jordan Gomes out with a knee injury and Brandon Leslie arriving this summer, Estes said:
"Anything can happen. I'm trying to study all of my plays and do the right things." (HSA)
Asked which shoulder required a medical hardship in 2008, Estes said:
"I don't even know. I hurt both sides. I get mixed up." (HSA)
About how another shoulder injury ruined the Warriors' plans to make him a starter in 2009, Estes said that after the injury:
"I got down on the depth chart." (HSA)
About how his great job on their kick-coverage unit in 2010 earned him a shot at safety as a senior this year, Estes said:
"This is my fifth year in college. It's my last year. I've grown up a lot." (HSA)
About how Honolulu was very different that the rural Kauai area he came from, Estes said:
"When I got here, I was like, 'Holy smokes, this is a whole different thing.'" (HSA)
About how they didn't have the fishing regulations on Kauai that they have on Oahu, Estes said:
"When I go fishing here, I have to follow all of these laws. Back at home, it's all free game." (HSA)
About Estes, who stays at his family's house during the summer, Kealoha Pilares said:
"He's a down-to-earth country kid. He sticks to his roots no matter what. He loves fishing. You can't get it out of him. That's one thing about him, he needs his fishing." (HSA)
About staying at Estes' family home, Pilares said:
"It was super fun. He showed me how they lived. It's very different from Oahu. Life is a lot slower. That's him. He can tear up a dance floor, but he doesn't like to go out. He'd rather go to the beach and throw out the fishing poles." (HSA)
About how he plays aggressively despite his laid-back personality, Estes said:
"I do what I need to do." (HSA).
HSA Note: "In team testing, Elmer "Tahi" Lim, Kahai Choy and Matagisila Lefiti had impressive weight-lifting performances. Lim and Choy — both Kamehameha Schools graduates — each bench-pressed a team-high 455 pounds. Choy and Lefiti each benched 225 pounds 35 times."
About how he increased his weight-training workouts after the Warriors cut him at the end of the 2009 spring training, Lim said:
"That's when I really started to work on my upper-body strength." (HSA)
HSA Note: "Lim, who is 6 feet 1 and 290 pounds. was reinstated to the roster following a successful walk-on tryout in February 2010. He practiced at guard during the 2010 season before switching to center. He has one season of eligibility remaining."
About benching 455 pounds but not succeeding at 475 pounds, Lim said:
"I just couldn't get it." (HSA)
About competing for a spot at guard, Andrew Faaumu (who had the top power clean with a lift of 342 pounds) said:
"It's going to come down to the summer." (HSA)
About earning his bachelor's degree in communications and planning to go for a master's degree, Faaumu said:
"Right now, Plan A is football." (HSA)
About using financial aid, student loans, and help from his family to pay for UH and living expenses, walk-on Faaumu said:
"I don't see anything wrong with investing money into college. Whether you're taking out loans, it's an investment into your future. I didn't go to college just to play football. I wanted to learn." (HSA)
About how it was easy for him to adjust to the CB position, John Hardy-Tuilau said:
"I played corner before. I know it." (HSA)
About how he gained versatility when playing nickel last year, Hardy-Tuilau said:
"Playing nickel. I had to learn all of the positions (in the secondary)." (HSA)A
About how he did well in their first two spring practices, Cecil Doe said:
"I feel I'm making pretty good progress." (HSA)
About how he's learning to read the various defensive coverages and how his routes can open things up for other receivers, Doe said:
"It's a really good offense. It's definitely fun to run." (HSA)
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