I love being single. I can come and go as I please and stay out as late as I want to.

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.

She told me I wasn't playing for the coach, I was playing for myself.

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

I'll tell you one thing about me: I'm very private. I always have been private. People think I'm callous, arrogant. I didn't like the media attention.

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.

Most of the hits I take come on top of the shoulder pads.