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

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

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.

Our coach was absolutely out of his head. He must have read Bear Bryant's book. We had 78 players out. The first day 35 quit. Twenty quit the second day. We ended with 17 players. It was depressing.

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.

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

The basketball coach cut me within two days, so I was back in the pool. I was the first one in the wall after the first 25 yards, but the last one out because I didn't have a flip turn.