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

The bottom line is that these athletes tend to be safer investments because they really value their marketing opportunities. They don't make as much money as during their active careers.

My thing is trying to convince them they can win.

When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.

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

I want to be recognized as the best-no doubt about it. When they say all-pro middle linebacker, I want them to mean Butkus!

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.