When you take a year off from football, you come back for all the enjoyable moments. When you're not playing, you miss out on all the highs, but you also miss these disappointments. But I would rather be in the arena to be excited or be disappointed than not have a chance at all. That's football. That's why everybody plays it.

I committed my life to Christ, and that faith has been most important to me ever since.

If people think I'm a laid-back guy, that's their mistake.

Whenever people ask you where you're from and you say New Orleans, it's always going to create a conversation.

Some people have this impression of me: 'Boy, he's always so serious on the field. Football. Football. Football.

I'm a serious person by nature - sometimes too serious.

My dad was a class person on and off the field. That's the person I want to be.