I think I have a tendency to look at things subjectively rather than objectively when I reflect on my experience.

It's good to do things slow in the bush. It makes you appreciate everything a lot more.

As an athlete, you figure you work your whole life to have what you have, and to be able to show the world what you have and how proud you are of it, that's always fun.

It's something that I had been pushing down my whole life. The search for meaning, I guess, the whispering of the soul.

I led the NFL in attempts the past two years and they really didn’t go out and get a quarterback to help me so I knew it’s going to be all on me again. I could see my mortality as a football player, that I’m not going to be able to do this much longer. It just became obvious to me that playing football for me is not going to be fun, not something I’m going to enjoy and it’s time for me to do something different.

When I retired, I felt that I lived more in that year than I had the previous 27 years of my life.

The people that I see on the street, they treat me more as a human being and not just an icon or a football player.