2020 NFL Draft Prospect Interview: Martine Perez, DB, Ohio Dominican University

• Name: Martine Perez
• Height: 6’0
• Weight: 215
• Position: Safety 
• College: Ohio Dominican University 
• Twitter: @martineperez_

Tell us about your hometown, and what you love most about it?

• Busy, everybody is on the move going to point A to point B. Columbus, Ohio atmosphere is filled with passion, dreams and aspiration. Being a Brother, Son, Uncle, Nephew, and Cousin is what I love most about my hometown. 

List these three in order of importance and why: Film Study, Strength and Conditioning and Practice?

• Film Study, Strength and conditioning and practice. It is important to have the appropriate knowledge out there on the field. Film study can make an average player to a play maker. 

What do you worry about, and why?

• The choices I make. Making decision not only affect me but those around me.

Give me an example of when you failed at something. How did you react and how did you overcome failure?

• I’ve failed a class and looked and felt disgusted. I had to reflect but listening help me overcome it.  

What do your teammates say is your best quality?

• Serious, Strong, Hungry  

Who is the best player you have ever played against in college?

• I’m the best player I ever played against. I say that because there was a time, I was my own worst enemy and fighting battle against myself. 

What would your career be if you couldn’t play football? 

• Landscaping, it probably more so a hobby but like football it has potential. 

Room, desk and car – which do you clean first?

• My desk, I start small then work my way up. 

If there was a disaster and you could either save three strangers or one family member, which would you choose and why?

• The three Strangers I would save. If I capable to save anyone it would be them. My family is strong, and they believe in me and the decisions I make. If my family was strangers in the same pediment, I would want somebody to do the same for them.

If you could be any television or movie character, who would you be and why?

• Denzel Washington, he a Grammy award winner.  

Tell me about your biggest adversity in life and how you’ve dealt with or overcome it?

• Relationship where my biggest adversity in life. I had to dealt with it with honesty and communication. 

What is your most embarrassing moment?

• I dream I peed on my myself and it was embarrassing when you have to take the sheets down, wash them, wash clothes, and take a shower. 

What was the most memorable play of your collegiate career?

• The tackle I made in my first collegiate bowl game. 

What song best describes your work ethic?

• Kevin Gates Push it.

What is the most important trait you can have (Physical or Non-Physical) to help you succeed at the next level? 

• My mind, I’m a thinker. 

If you could bring one person back from the dead for one day, who would it be and why?

• Michael Jackson, I remember the day he dies. I was at Kings Island with my Aunt and cousins. I feel like he died to soon and still had more accomplishments to make. 

If you were to open a dance club, what would you name it? 

• Martine’s

Who is the most underrated player in the NFL? 

• All lineman is underrated

Would you rather be liked or respected, and why?

• Respected, I would rather someone call me for advice than to hang out.

What player who had his career derailed by off-field issues do you feel for the most and why?

• Colin Kaepernick, he took a knee and voice his opinion. I feel it was off-field issues that he spoke about that had his career derailed. 

Do you love to win, or hate to lose?

• I hate to lose.

Who has been the biggest influence on your life and explain why?

•  God, I keep God first me Second. I give thank every day for allowing me wake up. Without him nothing is possible.