My thing is trying to convince them they can win.

Some parents were nervous about how they would portray everything, ... At a picnic the moms put on for the team and coaches, I said that all the reality shows are turning around and showing good things, not bad things.

Anything that happens that's good, they think, Oh, it's an accident, when is the roof caving in? You've got to get them out of that mental framework.

If we're not on them, they go back to their old ways.

I worked hard at becoming a professional football player, just like society says you should. It said you had to be fierce. I was fierce. Tough. I was tough.

If I was smart enough to be a doctor, I'd be a doctor. I ain't, so I'm a football player.

My thing is trying to convince them they can win.