I don't have to put on shoulder pads and run out there and let somebody hit on me a little bit.

I've given everything I can possible to the game, on and off the field.

I've learned that football sometimes was an outlet. It was a way for me to release anger, release frustration.

As a former football player who has carried a football more than 4,000 times, trust me, I did not go into ballroom dancing with my body being 100 percent, with no aches or pains or ailments coming with me. When you're dancing, you're doing stuff that your body's not used to, and so you start to aggravate those old injuries.

I may win and I may lose, but I will never be defeated

History has never seen Emmitt Smith. I don't care what has come before me. That's why they call it history you create new history.

Vision gets the dreams started. Dreaming employs your God-given imagination to reinforce the vision. Both are part of something I believe is absolutely necessary to building the life of a champion, a winner, a person of high character who is consistently at the top of whatever game he or she is in.