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Kenny Stills – December 27, 2017 Download PDF version

Wednesday, December 27, 2017

WR Kenny Stills

(Any thoughts on winning the Nat Moore Community Service Award?) – “Honestly, acknowledgement from my teammates and seeing the work that I have done this year out in the community, I hope that this encourages Dolphins fans and fans of mine to get out in the community and volunteer and do the same thing.”

(I know you don’t like the limelight. I mean you don’t do it for the limelight; but to get acknowledged, is it kind of uneasy for you to get acknowledged for it?) – “Yes. It’s not really my thing. When I first started doing stuff in the community it was hard for me to even … like I don’t like doing interviews, I don’t like the cameras being there, I don’t really … It’s just uncomfortable for me. I think it’s uncomfortable for other people and so, yes, it’s just not really my thing; but like I said, I hope this encourages fans of mine or fans of the Dolphins to get out and volunteer and help in their community.”

(And encourage other players to maybe just to do it on their own time, right?) – “Yes.”

(Just because an event planned by the team or anything…) – “Right. One-hundred percent. That’s what’s been really cool too is a lot of the younger players have come up to me and approached me about, ‘Hey, like how do I get involved? How do I do what you’re doing?’ So I’m able to save their number in my phone or put them in a part of a group text and I’m like ‘Hey, this offseason we’re doing this,’ or ‘Hey, during the season we’re doing this. I’d love for you to show up and be there.’ So yes, it’s nice to be acknowledged, but it’s really not my thing.”

(Not to say that you have older players and the older generation never did this, but do you think the younger generation and with social media and everything, they realize even more what kind of platform they have to do good in society? Not just on the football side of it?) – “Yes. I definitely think that people are starting to realize and see the platform that we have and what we can do with it. I have said this before, I was very lucky when I came in the league to have older players like Lance Moore and Marques Colston that really were like ‘Hey look, it’s mandatory for rookies to be at all community service events.’ That’s really how I really fell in love with volunteering and doing things for other people and so I’m thankful to them for doing that and hopefully I can do something similar for guys here.”

(How much does stuff outside of football help you when you’re playing the game, like sometimes so many people put so much into the game they don’t realize there’s other stuff outside the game. Just as a person, how does it fulfill you?) – “The things that I do outside of football are where I find that real happiness. You can win a football game and you can lose a football game and that’s just something that you can’t always control; but when I go out there and I’m helping out other people, you see the true joy and love and appreciation in their face and in return you get the same thing.”

(The season hasn’t gone the way you guys wanted. You have one more game. How do you treat this last game and how do you move forward? How do you think this game helps you guys moving forward in the offseason?) – “I treat this game like every other game. For us, you want to end the season on a good note. People always remember your last performance and so I want to make sure I go out there and handle business and do my job, and I think that’s how we feel as a team.”

(Moving forward to the pieces you have in here, I know things didn’t go your way. How much needs to improve and does there need to be a lot of changes do you think or that’s not your job?) – “Yes, that’s not … We’re just focusing on this game, trying to finish the season strong and the people upstairs will handle everything else outside of that.”

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