If I'm tired, I'm coming out. I won't do that to my teammates and stay on the field when I know I'm not going to be able to do it.

I didn't think of football growing up. This wasn't my career, something I chose. It was something I was picked in.

Every year you've got somebody coming in and trying to kick you off, so you have to prove yourself. Even for the coaches, too. Their jobs are always on the line.

Growing up, as a kid, my father was always there.

If you grew up in a household with a football coach who looks like a drill sergeant, you would think you would be tough.

It wasn't my tennis that made me lose, it was a lot of different things going on, high drama, high emotion.

Dehumanizing sounds so extreme, but when you're fighting for a football at the bottom of the pile, it is kind of dehumanizing.

The goal of almost every comic is to find a comedy voice - a specific point of view that an audience can latch onto.