I wanted to take on a little bit more of a leadership role. I'm getting older and things are coming to me more and I have to take responsibility for that.

The stereotype of a leader is one who talks and peps people up and things like that, but in actuality you have to listen to your teammates.

You can't worry about what people say, but... People always harp on athletes being selfish individualists.

You can't be afraid to get back up and try again, and you really can't do that unless you acknowledge the failure.

I'm my own biggest critic, and the only way I'm going to improve is to see what I was doing wrong.

I want to go get a stop on defense so James can do it again. It was a big spurt for him. That made then get out of their game plan and play him closer. But when he does that, we want to make sure we capitalize and get timely stops. And that's what got us right back in the game.

I never expected to leave college early-especially after just one year.