Playing the running back position, your legs, that's your living, that's how you make your living. You have to have great thighs, knees, everything.

In the NFL, you have a short shelf life. As a running back, if you're the first pick, and you're NFL life expectancy is only 3.5-6 years, your first big contract might not come until three years in - well, you might never get there. They need to get those signing bonuses up front because nothing is guaranteed.

Football isn't who we are, it doesn't necessarily define us. It's part of our life and it always will be, but football won't define us. Excellence does.

When they have their hands on their knees, that's when they're tired.

Them sportswriters don't even know how to put uniforms on, most of 'em.

In the NFL they talk about "contracts," but it's not really a contract, it's a one year agreement. If you have a 10 year contract, it means nothing. If you get cut in the NFL, you get nothing. People don't talk about that.

I believe if I stay tall and run up high, I can see better.