When I'm done playing football, I just might be the couch potato dad.

If you don't eat right as an athlete, you'll get tired and won't be as sharp. It's simple to drink sodas and sports drinks, but water is the most essential drink to put in your body.

My hair has become part of my identity; it's almost an appendage to me.

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.

Football is pretty much played 16 times a year, where training is kind of a year-round thing.

I don't look at football as a violent, barbaric sport. It's a very spiritual sport, especially for someone facing the challenges during a game: the fear of failure, the fear of getting too big an ego, of making a mistake and everybody criticizing you.