Strong leaders encourage you to do things for your own benefit, not just theirs.

If you do base your life on how many touchdowns you score, how many championships you win, then when you have a setback, then when you have an injury, you're not playing, or something goes wrong, your self-worth goes down.

Just keep believing. This is an opportunity where great things can happen and lets be great right now.

I try to stay centered in my faith and my family and the close people around me.

Talk about your blessings more than you talk about your burdens.

Regardless of what happens, I still honor my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, because at the end of the day, that's what's important, win or lose. ... We need to get back to one nation under God, and be role models for kids.

It's not always the easiest thing to be the center of so much spilled ink.