Everyone asks me if piano had helped me in football. I guess improvisation and creativity helps on the field, but that's a reach. The two skills are just so different. And, by the way, I get more nervous playing piano.

My energy level rises but I get calmer, if that's possible. What a lot of people tend to do is get real tight and get all psyched up and take themselves out of their game.

Everyone asks me if piano had helped me in football. I guess improvisation and creativity helps on the field, but that's a reach. The two skills are just so different. And, by the way, I get more nervous playing piano.

The biggest thing is not to lose your confidence and realize you've got to work through those mistakes to yourself a chance to improve.

Winning is about believing you're never out of a game. I've always believed that.

To me, I'm still a 24-year-old kid who just happens to have a better paying job than other kids my age.

I'm lucky - we're all lucky - to be playing a game for a living.