Everybody needs encouragement, even when things are going well.

I was able to look at football as something that God was allowing me to do, not something that should define me. I couldn't take my identity from this sport.

If we do what we do without panicking, we can accomplish great things.

My dad took me to a high school basketball game and this very, very famous coach in Michigan, by the name of Lofton Greene - he was a guy that my dad was familiar with. He was from our hometown. And I watched the game and I said I didn't see this guy doing a lot of coaching. And my dad told me, well, it's just like a teacher - which he was - he said if you do a good job teaching during the week, when they take the test on Friday, that's not the time you have to do a lot of demonstrative things.

You need togetherness because you don't always win, and you have got to hang though together

Everybody needs encouragement, even when things are going well.

As a father of seven kids, and been a kid myself at one point, I realize you don't always make the best decisions every time out. And life is a learning experience.