I can look back at it now as definitely like an initiation into adulthood. Almost overnight in the NFL, I was put on a pedestal and I was supposed to be this icon or this image of what a professional athlete was supposed to be. I felt like I just got stuck trying to be someone else and I forgot who I actually was.

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

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

I love myself. Because I'm all that I have and if I don't love myself, no one else will. Whenever I feel myself starting to dislike something I tell myself, "This is who I am," so what's the point in disliking it?

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.

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

I am more mature. I'm a better football player. I just feel like this is my time.