I just wanted to be an athlete.

Nobody cared about swimming. You could draw a crowd for basketball.

We need to know where we are going and how we plan to get there. Our dreams and aspirations must be translated into real and tangible goals with priorities and time frames.

I was captain and should have set the example. I would lift a minimum of weights. Mine was natural physical strength. I always thought quickness and agility were much more important.

Most exciting for me was to make the Pro Bowl in 14 of 15 years.

Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self-determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze, which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and receivers.

After a few games I knew I was going to be able to compete. The idea of being a star never crossed my mind.