I think it's very easy for people to stereotype athletes, good and bad.

Human beings aren't supposed to be controlled and told what to do.

It's something that I had been pushing down my whole life. The search for meaning, I guess, the whispering of the soul.

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 stepped away to find out more about myself, which I was having difficulty doing as a football player. I got a chance to travel the world. I studied Eastern philosophy, and I've grown as a person so much.

I have no room in my life for any form of negativity or nonacceptance.

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