Editor’s note: Blake Keller, 22, is a redshirt senior defensive lineman on the Marshall University football team. He transferred to Marshall from the University of Central Florida. Reporter Courtney Andrews recently interviewed Keller using the Marcel Proust/Vanity Fair questionnaire found each month in Vanity Fair magazine. It is designed to reveal the personal side of newsmakers.

Reporter: What is your idea of perfect happiness?

Keller: Being happy all the time. Feeling good.

Reporter: What is your greatest fear?

Keller: Drowning.

Reporter: What is the trait you most dislike in yourself?

Keller: Nothing.

Reporter: What is the trait you most dislike in others?

Keller: When people are annoying.

Reporter: Which living person do you most admire?

Keller: My mom.

Reporter: What can you not help but to spend money on?

Keller: Food.

Reporter: What do you value most in your friends?

Keller: They’re funny.

Reporter: What do you consider the most overrated virtue?

Keller: Intelligence.

Reporter: On what occasion do you lie?

Keller: I don’t lie.

Reporter: What do you most dislike about your appearance?

Keller: The scar on my face.

Reporter: What is the quality you most like in a man?

Keller: They’re funny.

Reporter: What is the quality you most like in a woman?

Keller: They’re attractive.

Reporter: Which words or phrases do you most overuse?

Keller: ‘Like’

Reporter: What or who is the greatest love of your life?

Keller: My mom.

Reporter: When and where were you happiest?

Keller: Right now.

Reporter: Where would you most like to live?

Keller: Florida.

Reporter: What is your most treasured possession?

Keller: My phone.

Reporter: What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?

Keller: Dying.

Reporter: What is your favorite occupation?

Keller: Playing football.

Reporter: What is your most marked characteristic?

Keller: That I like to drink.

Reporter: What do you most value in your teammates?

Keller: They’re just good people.

Reporter: Who are your favorite athletes?

Keller: J.J. Watt

Reporter: Which historical figure do you most identify with?

Keller: Abraham Lincoln.

Reporter: Who are your heroes in real life?

Keller: My mom.

Reporter: What are your favorite names?

Keller: Blake.

Reporter: What is it that you most dislike?

Keller: Being hungry.

Reporter: Which talent would you most like to have?

Keller: Being really fast.

Reporter: If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

Keller: Be taller.

Reporter: What do you consider your greatest achievement?

Keller: Getting a scholarship to play football.

Reporter: If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be?

Keller: A bird.

Reporter: What is your greatest regret?

Keller: I don’t have regrets.

Reporter: How would you like to die?

Keller: Real fast.

Reporter: What is your motto?

Keller: Go with the flow.