On the field is a place where you can just let it loose and react to everything with violence.

I always try to sacrifice my body for the team.

I have developed a Samoan mentality. You have to be a gentleman everywhere but on the field.

I try to take what's given to me and then mold it to be a better football player.

Throughout history, every great warrior-the Greeks, the Samurais, the American Indians, the Mongolians, you name it-had long hair and would dress it before battle.

I've been surfing for a couple years, in the offseason in California and in Hawaii. I'm not very good, but it's just something that to be out there in the water, no cell phone, no music... very few sports are as pure as that.

My wife is Greek. I was a non-denomination Christian before we got married.