I think my stubbornness, hardheadedness and stupidity is what has allowed me to play for 20 years.

If you grew up in a household with a football coach who looks like a drill sergeant, you would think you would be tough.

Most talented players don't always succeed. Some don't even make the team. It's more what's inside.

God, he deals you blows that at sometimes you think you can't handle and in the last year there have been things that we thought we couldn't handle but we've dealt with it up until this point.

You know, I've had my ups and downs.

Every game I've ever played, regardless if it was pre-season or Super Bowl, meant the same to me, and I laid it all on the line.

Initially, I know that I handled it worse than she did and I think partly because I've always been... every bit of adversity I've faced up until the last year and a half is adversity I brought upon myself - or the opposing teams have given me.