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

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.

Growing up with two sisters, you either play by yourself or play Barbie with them. I played by myself.

There's nothing I miss about anything in the whole wide world. The idea of missing something means you're not living in the moment. Every moment is good for something.

If you replace the word God in the Bible with the word Truth, it reads exactly right.

I had this notion that everyone was staring at me and judging everything about me, from my appearance to the way I talk and everything.

I think if I were a college professor, no one would say I was uncomfortable about being shy because that might be expected. But I think because of people's stereotypes, they think of a football player as someone who is very outgoing and I'm not.