Love yourself. Respect yourself. Never sell yourself short. Believe in yourself regardless of what people think. You can accomplish anything, absolutely anything, if you set your mind to it.

To be a winner of that, and to fall in the long line of traditional great backs at USC, to have your name in perpetuity, the fact that your parents are like icons... that's the greatest thing.

There are two types of players: those who know and those who don’t. The smartest ones usually play the longest and [are] usually the most successful.

I just felt like reflecting on my junior year, when I didn't know what I was doing, I left a lot of stuff out there. Actually, I gained close to 700 yards more and I took myself out of a lot of games.

Even as voters, we try to keep up with the guys as much as possible, mainly through television or ESPN.

That's the thing about fear. Death will kill you once, but fear kills you over and over and over, if you let it.

It actually took me a year to learn how to play running back - to understand what they were doing defensively and then what our guys were doing every single play.