Knowledge relaxes me. Football is all about playing faster. You play faster when you know more.

If you understand what the other team is trying to do to stop you, it makes your job easier.

The disconnect between [offensive coordinator] Todd Haley and [quarterback] Ben Roethlisberger is so blatant you can just see it.

Once it's in you to being a starter, you always want to be that. But you understand the circumstances and you understand what you can and can't do. And that's the reality of it.

When a team tells you we’re going to let you get your option regardless if you get it or not, that’s a message to you as to what you need to do in order to make this team or to be on this team next year.

Going in is really more of an acknowledgment that kids in poverty, in their situations, can get out of it, and it doesn't always come from sports.

Once the game begins, I play to that song in my head. I run to rhythm, and that allows my mind to be free.