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

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

I want to thank all my fans, teammates, coaches and supporters for the strength they've given me to overcome so much.

I don't believe in regret.

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.

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

Sometimes success will get in the way of maturity - at least temporarily.