If you ask any great player or great quarterback, there's a certain inner confidence that you're as good as anybody. But you can't say who is the absolute best. To be considered is special in itself.

I've tried, at every step in life, to find a lesson. And accepting criticism with the same grace that you do the applause is something every young athlete needs to learn. ... I think it served me well to learn how to handle everything that came with the game's ups and downs. Some people call it growing another layer of skin. I just call it growing up.

When I look at tricks, I look at Michael Vick.

You have to feel you're the best at what you do. You don't have to come out and say it. But you have to know it within yourself.

I've been a Dolphin for 17 years, and I'll be a Dolphin for the rest of my life. That will never change.

Swing hard in case you hit it.

My parents would always say, 'It doesnt' matter if it's a guy picking up the garbage or the President of the United States, treat everybody as you would want to be treated.