Insider odcinek 1
Whatever It Takes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyZHwBO6yoM
Albert describes Survivor as his fiancée for whom he is willing to do whatever it takes to win her over.
"I'm 26 years old. My name is Albert. I'm the head baseball coach at Plantation High School. I've kind of been doing baseball my whole life. I played collegiate league, I did Division 1 level, and now I'm involved in the game I love. I coach baseball for a living."
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"I'm pretty layered. I have a pretty extensive history of doing some pretty interesting things in my background. I played poker professionally. I competed in the World Series of Poker last year. I worked as a professional dating coach. I traveled around the world teaching men and women how to meet, date, and attract men and women of the opposite sex."
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"The beauty of this game is it's almost like a human chess game. People are pieces, and you're just shuffling around the board. I think I'm gonna come in with a lot of preconceived notions. They're gonna think, 'Here's this athlete guy. He plays baseball, coaches baseball. He's a jock. He's not gonna have much going between the ears. I'm gonna kind of try to use my advantage to kind of scheme, maneuver and manipulate my way around the game, and a lot of them won't see it coming, at least not from me."
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"I think the dating coach aspect will probably work a little differently had my tribe draw been a little different. I didn't really get many of the younger female players on my tribe, which is interesting, which is cool. I'm cool with older ladies as well. It's an interesting thing because I know a lot more about body languages and little nuances which are going to help me throughout this game. I know how to socially calibrate myself which in layman's terms means understand how to act depending on who I'm around and what the situation is. It's really gonna give me a pretty big edge when it comes to assimilating myself to my tribemates and other players in the game."
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"I'm definitely gonna be a leader in the game, but I'm not gonna be a leader by shouting orders and barking out directions, but I'm gonna be a leader by the vibe I set and the tone I establish. I'm gonna be a leader a little bit more subliminally than others. I'm not gonna say, 'You do this, you do that,' but I'm gonna try to set the tone a little bit and lead by example rather than verbalizing what I want people do do."
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"I wouldn't say this is my element. I'm comfortable with the weather and the temperature now, but the fact that we're going to be outside fighting for survival literally, not my cup of tea, personally. I'm a tough guy, I can battle through pretty much anything, but when it comes to the limited amount of resources we're going to have, it's going to be interesting. I don't know. It's not something I'm normally acclimated to."
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"Being Cuban and being born in Miami, living this every day, this is what I'm used to. My family's from an island. You think hey, a game of survival on an island, you'd think a Cuban would have a pretty big edge."
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"I think I'll win this game because I've got a pretty unique set of attributes I'm bringing to the table. I'm pretty athletic. I've got a solid strategy I'm going to employ, ultimately socially, this is a social game, and I think that's going to be my biggest edge. I have a social component that I think is going to be a little bit higher than the rest of the people in this game. I understand social dynamics a little better, and I'm gonna know how to maneuver myself better. Ultimately I have no qualms doing whatever it takes to win this game. I'm not the person who's going to say, I can't cross this invisible moral line. I'll do whatever it takes to win this game. I came here to win a million dollars. That's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna go after it 100%."
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"I'd lose because I was recognized as a threat, or I'd lose because my tribe just got down in numbers and we'd get Pagonged, as they say. We'd just get picked off one by one. I would lose if I trusted the wrong person. If I put my trust someone and think they have my back, and all the sudden that one confidant that I have goes 180 on me and flips the script."
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"And I am completely unattached. I am not involved in any serious relationship right now. The only relationship I have right now is the game of Survivor. That's my fiance. I'm going to do everything to court and win over the game of Survivor. I'm going to do whatever it takes to be successful. If I gotta flirt with the girls, I'll do it. If I gotta flirt with a guy, I don't care, I'll do it. I'll do whatever it takes. No holds barred."
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"Redemption Island is interesting. As a player, I'll tell you right now, I love it. A guy like me, who might get targeted at some point in the game, have an opportunity to come back and work his way back into the game whether it's through a puzzle challenge or physical type challenge, it's great for me. As a player, I love it. It makes me feel like it's not the end-all-be-all if I do get knocked out or I do get voted out at some point. That being said, it might work against my favor if I strategically set a plan in place where I'm picking people off systematically. If somebody gets kicked off and comes back, especially if they come back late in the game, like they did last year, final 5, it could really alter things."
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"At first, 2 returning players, I wasn't really in love with the idea. Now, looking at my tribe, I probably need another strong player on my tribe to help through these tough challenges early on. Realistically, I might have to align with one of these players. When I look around my tribe, I don't know if I see a lot of people I feel that comfortable investing my trust in and investing my well-being in the game. Initially I thought hey, whoever comes back we might have to get rid of 'em early, but the way things have panned out, I might have to depend on that person, might have to join forces with them a little bit, especially since I don't think a returning player will win this year. There's such a built-in argument about what Rob did last season. You let a returner get to the finals, they're gonna win. That's a nice little end game ace I'm gonna have up my sleeve. We can't let this guy get too deep, because he could be trouble."
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"I feel pretty phenomenal. I feel ready to go. I feel nothing can stop me at this point. No matter what obstacle I face, I'm gonna know how to wiggle my way around it. I'm gonna know how to adjust through it. I'm a really good person at making last second improvisational decisions and tactics, and kind of going with the flow. That's what this game's about, man. Anyone who plays a static strategy in this game, I'm gonna play this way all the way through, isn't gonna be very successful. You gotta be able to move on your feet, gotta be able to move around, be quick, and I think that's gonna be able to play to my strength. I can do that. I can improvise pretty quickly."