The first thing you have to do is make sure you're still wanted back. I never take that for granted any more.

That's the difference between the NCAA and the NFL right now. They've got to step up and say, 'We're going to do the right thing. We're going to hire qualified people. We're going to hire the best man for the job regardless of what boosters or anyone else has to say.'

Once a player joins our team, our priority is to teach him, not worry about the player we didn't select.

When I was young, I didn't like to read. I would have much rather been outside doing something than been inside reading about it.

Football is a vocation and an opportunity for ministry. But it's not a life.

What's important is not the uniform or the number, and it's not what team you play for or whether anyone else sees your value; it's who you are on the inside. And when you're in Christ, that's never going to change.

Did you know that nearly one in three children live apart from their biological dads? Those kids are two to three times more likely to grow up in poverty, to suffer in school, and to have health and behavioral problems.