What I would tell young players is that as you get older, the best thing you can do is try to have other interests and have opportunities.

I'm halfway intelligent. I'll figure something out.

I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'

Football is my job, not my life, but it's a job I'm going to give my all for as long as I'm in it.

I've always been attracted to things that are taboo. I've never been afraid to go to that dark place.

The money is what made me miserable. I want to be free of that stress.

When you make that crossover from life to real life, when you're not treated as a child anymore but as a man, and you are no longer given the benefit of the doubt, it takes some courage to face that.