When he was a student at Youngstown Liberty High School, Fitzgerald Toussaint walked 2 miles from his home to practice every day. When his coach, Jeff Whittaker, found out about it he offered to pick him up and take him home, but Toussaint refused.
“He chose to walk because that’s how he got focused,” Whittaker said. “That’s how he mentally prepared himself for football. He’s always been focused with what he was doing in athletics. Even though he walked, he was always the first one at practice. We were a small school. The coaches had to set everything up for practice, the dummies, the cones, everything.