Football is a very short-term proposition. Football really prepares you for nothing. The only thing I got out of football was the ability to work hard, and that's it.

There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.

We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.

Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.

Jay Cutler, he's a fine quarterback, but I think at times he gets a little nicked up.

I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.

Football is a very short-term proposition. Football really prepares you for nothing. The only thing I got out of football was the ability to work hard, and that's it.