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.

Greatness is the willingness to choose in the midst of intensity.

I am an honest, God-fearing man who is intensely dedicated to being the best person I can be on and off the football field.

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 want people to think they can't die until they see me play.

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.

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.