If you identify yourself as a great football player, anytime anyone challenges that, you're going to have some kind of problem.

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.

I'm closer to being happy. I'm doing things that make me happy. In football I loved to practice and I loved to play, but I hated to be in meetings, hated to talk to the media, hated to have cameras in my face, hated to sign autographs. I hated to do all those things.

A team takes on the personality of the head coach.

I don't feel like my speed or my power or my desire to play this game has diminished at all.

I think sometimes when it comes to sports, and especially relationships between players and coaches, that people lose track, lose a sense of reality.