My job is to build that belief in every coach and every owner, that they can put the franchise in my hands and I can take it uphill from there. Obviously, everyone wants to be No. 1, but I'm not going to campaign. I'm just going to go out and show what I've got.

I don't play too much into the color game, because I don't want to be the best African American quarterback, I want to be the best quarterback.

There's a fine line between playing with fear and then taking bad plays and playing with no fear.

Teams are going to try to hit me because they think I can't take a hit. I think I've proven over my career that I can.

Football is football and talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference.

My parents did a great job raising me and my two sisters. We all graduated from high school and we all graduated from college. So, to be a good representative of my family is probably my greatest accomplishment thus far.

One thing my dad always told me, was he would make sure I always had what he didn't have. He couldn't play basketball because he didn't have tennis shoes - so I had five pairs of tennis shoes.