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"Don't feel sorry for yourself because no one else does" 😂

We took to the @AFL 2026 Brownlow Red Carpet and ask the sport's biggest stars for the best advice they've ever received from their old man (with a cheeky cameo from the @kick.it.forward lads too)

What's the best (or worst) advice your Dad gave you? Let us know in the comments 👇

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Transcript
00:00Wow. Lovely advice.
00:03Working as hard as you can to get somewhere, and if you work as hard as you can, you'll get
00:06there eventually.
00:07That's something that got me to where I am today.
00:09Jeez, my old man, he never gives it up. He's still playing bass waiting for his break.
00:13I say, just don't give it away.
00:15You've got to get 10 summers with your kids, so then they remember, so make the most of it.
00:18My advice I got from my dad was he was always happy no matter what I did in life.
00:23How I'm going to coach my sons is just to let them have fun, and that was my dad.
00:26Whenever I have a bad game, Dad always says, you'll never remember that in five years.
00:30I try and tell myself that.
00:31He never pushed me in a certain direction to do anything.
00:34He was always so supportive of me, never critical of how I played.
00:38I think that actually fostered my love for the game.
00:40Follow your heart, have a good time, enjoy it, and that set me up well.
00:42Dad's a good listener. He's unassumingly clever, but doesn't have to be loud about it.
00:47Not saying I'm any of that.
00:49The hardest time to do something nice is when you don't want to, and that's when you do it.
00:53Don't feel sorry for yourself because no one else does.
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