Tampa Bay Buccaneers’s defensive lineman Ndamukong Suh was permitted to shadow Warren Buffett for several weeks in 2010. In a recent Twitter thread, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers player explained how he clinched the role and his three important lessons.

During Suh’s senior game at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Buffett served as an honorary captain. The renowned businessman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett, paid a visit to the locker room to meet the players, including Suh. Their two-second interaction altered the future NFL player’s life, and his “entire world would be different if it hadn’t happened,” he said on Twitter.

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Suh requested a meeting with Buffett through Tom Osborne, UNL’s sports director and a former congressman. Suh was invited to Berkshire headquarters by the investor a few months later and happily consented to Suh shadowing him.

Describing his meeting with the media magnate, Suh wrote on Twitter, “The night of our senior game at UNL, Warren was one of our honorary captains. Right before kick-off, he came down to the locker room and said hi. Even though we beat Oklahoma, saying hi to a legend was the most exciting part of the night for me.”

As a result, the defensive lineman was allowed to attend many of Buffett’s meetings. He had a front-row seat to the investor negotiating a deal with 3G Capital, a Brazilian private equity firm that subsequently partnered with Berkshire on the Kraft-Heinz merger.

“Each time we met was a masterclass worth 100x more than an MBA,” Suh tweeted about his time with Buffett.

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The football star learned three important lessons from the tycoon, which he has used for his company and investments ever since. Keeping things simple, focusing on hobbies and people, and reading, learning, and remaining interested in the world were among them.

In recent years, the six-foot-four, 305-pound lineman has staged arm-wrestling contests with Buffett.

“No matter how many times we do it, I still can’t beat him!” he tweeted. “Must be all that Coca-Cola.” Suh told CNBC in January that he tries to hook up with Buffett every quarter as he prepares to transition from football to investment and seeks his mentor’s guidance.