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

I just wanted to be an athlete.

One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared.

Perseverance isn't just the willingness to work hard. It's that plus the willingness to be stubborn about your own belief in yourself.

You can take the best team and the worst team and line them up and you would find very little physical difference. You would find an emotional difference. The wining team has a dedication. It will have a core group of veteran players who set the standards. They will not accept defeat.

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.

I had a hockey puck and stick-the only ones in town. I definitely would have played hockey ahead of football, had it been available.