For an athlete, there's no time off until it's over.

When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people from other countries play football. He corrected me on my geography and agreed to sit down with me anyway.

I decided to write a book primarily because people talked me into it.

I'm just in an unfortunate business where if you ask me a question I have to answer it honestly and if I don't answer it truthfully then I'm not respected.

You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give 'em? Humor. And then if you show them the other side, they don't like you as much. I find, too, that I can hide behind the idiot's mask being funny, and you never see the sorrow or the pain.

If you play in the NFL and start for 10 years, it's not good. It is not good.

Bottom line is, if you turn the ball over to a team that isn't as good, you then have brought them up to your level.