I've never been an individual guy. I never cared about the accolades. I've always been driven by the competition and the learning process.

It's scary when one day the city is there and the next day it's gone. To see the water actual kill people, I couldn't believe it. I never fathomed it could bury a city.

The competition, the naysayers, the owners who talk too much. The people who don't think a 36-year-old can do what I do. I take a lot of pride in my craft, I work really hard at my craft everyday, and I'm a true professional.

They're really aggressive. They're like roaches on bread - you drop some on the floor and, boom, they're on it.

Performance is something we all strive to be better at. I'm no different than that. Who wants to look bad?

I've never been an individual guy. I never cared about the accolades. I've always been driven by the competition and the learning process.

This is it. It's for all the marbles. I'm sitting in the house loading up the pump, I'm loading up the Uzis, I've got a couple of M-16s, couple of nines, couple of joints with some silencers on them, couple of grenades, got a missile launcher. I'm ready for war.