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.

The Redskins haven't won the division since 1999, and we came in and we did it in one year!

You can be a catalyst for change but change never really entirely happens just because of one guy.

That's the goal. Just to go out and not try to prove anybody wrong but just let your talents speak for themselves.

I think I'm starting to figure out when I need to get rid of it and when I don't need to.

Sometimes people think it's what you say when you're in a huge group that makes you a leader. But sometimes it's the one-on-one conversations you have with guys individually, just getting to know them. I think I've done that a lot. Not intentionally - it just happens.

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.