Haruki Nakamura's Goal's (Amazing Article On The Panthers Website)

[CarolinaPanthers8789]

Full Article: http://www.panthers....6e-98eced909163

Nakamura on his first goals and future goals

"When you come into the NFL, your ultimate goal is to make a football team," said Nakamura, signed by the Panthers on March 16. "Then each year, you take your goals and bump them up."

Nakamura on how he is willing to contribute to the Panthers

"I've always been the guy where if you ask me to do something, I do it," Nakamura said. "Special teams or defense, I'm willing to do whatever it takes."

"I know it's for the team, to make the team better. I'm a very unselfish player. That's just who I am, the way I was brought up and the values I learned from my family."

Nakamura on his late father Ryozo Nakamura

"I still remember to this day him in our two-bedroom apartment with a hospital bed in the bedroom," Nakamura said. "As a kid you don't really realize that you were giving your father one last kiss, but the next morning I walked into the room to see how he was doing, and he was gone. He left me his brown blanket and his aftershave that I always used to steal from him.

"We grew up with basically nothing, and it was hard, especially after my dad died with my mom raising four kids by herself basically. When you see that as a kid, you don't really understand it, but as you get older, you begin to realize the struggles that your mom went through just to keep the family afloat. It was an amazing thing to see. A lot of my work ethic comes from what my mom taught me."

Nakamura on how he came to Football

"My brother saw that I had an aggressive attitude that he thought would fit good with football, so he snuck me into a CYO (Catholic Youth Organization) program without my mom knowing," Nakamura said. "My mom found out a couple of weeks later when I brought shoulder pads and a helmet home. She just said, ‘Well, if you're going to play, you're not quitting.'

"I fractured my wrist a couple of weeks after the first game. Instead of being the mom that says, ‘You're done playing,' we got it casted and she went to the store, bought two soccer shin guards, taped them on my wrist and said, ‘You're playing football.' "

Nakamura on how he can make the Panthers better

"In Baltimore, we stressed that every player was a starter because it's the next-man-up philosophy in the game of football," Nakamura said. "I'm having fun here. This is a good group of guys, and I'm learning a lot from them."

A great article, a must read. I'm really pulling for this guy. I hope he has a great career here in the Queen City.

[Donald LaFell]

I know it's PR stuff but you can't not like that. I hope he does well here.

[The Special One]

Bryan Strickland has been on point w/his articles lately.

[CarolinaPanthers8789]

Yeah, I think he will have a ton of fan support here and rightly so. He has a great story and you can tell he is a great guy.

[Kuech the Sneak]

Hope he learned something from Ed reed all those years and can take the starting job from Martin...the worst we get is a great special teams player

[PhillyB]

great article, thanks for posting

[Kuech Da Sneak]

His mom sounds like a badass.

[CarolinaPanthers8789]

great article, thanks for posting

No problem man.

[Keep Pounding]

His mom sounds like a badass.

THIS^^^^^^^^^^^^^

If I could Pie you ten times, I would!!!

[jtnc]

Bryan Strickland>>>>>>Joseph Person

[PantherPhann89]

I hope he's good, you can't knock him for being a backup cause he was a backup to Ed Reed. I hope he plays like him.

[Panthers128]

A Japanese guy in a locker room full of black players. The showers must be a humbling experience.

[fieryprophet]

A Japanese guy in a locker room full of black players. The showers must be a humbling experience.

Stereotype much?

[Argus Plexus]

Sounds like my childhood lol except my Dad's not dead