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.

I think as a kid I never really understood the magnitude of a hurricane and what it could do.

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

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

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

When things are not going right, where are the leaders to pull this team together? That leadership sometimes, you just can’t find it. If one of your leaders is the guy who throws five interceptions [in one game], you have an issue.

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.