In high school, the fastest I ever ran was like a 4.67; that’s pretty fast. But then, I only weighed 168 pounds. – Gabriel Luna
I actually had a nickname as a player myself. When I played high school football in Texas, strong safety, they called me Choo Choo because they said I hit like a train. – Gabriel Luna
I’ve been playing American football since I was six years old. I was a captain of my high school team, playing strong safety. – Gabriel Luna
We seem, as a culture, to start to adhere to these antiheroes and have grown tired of the traditional, straight-up-and-down good guy. – Gabriel Luna
While American football is very structured and linear and static – where everyone lines up, and there’s a burst, and it happens – soccer is like the cosmos. It’s like constellations. It’s bodies moving in space. It’s a very spherical game. – Gabriel Luna
Football shape is one thing, and then ‘futbol’ shape is a completely other thing. It’s a whole other level of fitness that you have to work to maintain. – Gabriel Luna
Austin is almost a million people, but it still feels like a relatively small town. Everybody knows each other. Or at least everyone in the filmmaking community. – Gabriel Luna
My mother had me when she was 15. My father died before I was born. So my mother was a teenage widow, and she used herself as her greatest example so I wouldn’t end up in her position. – Gabriel Luna
I’d work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who’s a wushu master. – Gabriel Luna
The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first. – Gabriel Luna
