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

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.

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.

There's no fast track, no easy track, especially from where I came from. You try to take the most of it and learn from it and hope others learn from it. That's what it is about.

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.

Ozzie Newsome hit a home run by drafting Bernard Pierce. He is a great compliment to Ray Rice.