I feel like there's no such thing as failure.

As a football player, you're really an actor. I spent all Sunday getting into character. Sunday at 10 a.m., I have to be upset with someone who didn't do anything to me. By 11 a.m. I have to be angry. And by noon, I have to be furious.

I look at failure as the fertilizer to success.

Acting has helped me detox in football. Getting lost in a character and a scene, it's awesome.

You're whatever you think you are. People like to compartmentalize other people. I don't worry about what other people think. I'm not living for them.

There are a lot of black men doing really well, taking care of their families, taking care of their wives, being successful, doing the right thing, promoting the right thing. There needs to be an evolution in our portrayal. We have to come together, pool our resources and tell our own stories. People won't respect us unless we make them.

Many do with opportunities as children do at the seashore; they fill their little hands with sand, and then let the grains fall through, one by one, till all are gone.