Football is an honest game. It's true to life. It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life.

I don't think that I've ever been a backup.

I have to convince myself I know what I'm doing.

How you recover from what life's throwing at you is what matters.

To win, you have to lose, and then get pissed off.

Until my senior year, baseball and basketball were my best sports; and even when I was a senior, I still wanted to play baseball professionally. But the family wanted me to go to college and I guess I agreed with them or else I would have accepted some of the offers I got.

I think I could have become an outstanding professional baseball player, but I don't think I could have reached the heights that I have in football - being one of the very top players in the game, being a world champion.