I've always been a very self-aware person.

Being compared to the greatest-ever safety is pretty ridiculous. I continue to work toward that, but I'm not there and I know that.

A big hit is all part of the game. If you want to make a lot of big hits, you forget about the one you just made and move onto the next one.

America needs football. It's a real blue-collar sport; it's played with a blue-collar mentality, a mentality that's the backbone of this country.

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

I take pride in my life-my wife, my family. I try my best not to have football define the person that I am.

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.