I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously.

Back in '93 I saw my first UFC fight and just became enamored by it then.

Once a year my back will go out and it'll be... it's like a sciatic thing and it's the smallest thing. Like I could be leaning over the sink to brush my teeth in a weird way and it happens.

I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit.

By the time I joined the 'Washington Post' sports staff in 1979, Red's Runyonesque notion of sports writing was obsolete.

It is just a crazy life as a sportsman. My daughter, Sam, wants to go into tennis, and I tell her, 'No, you don't want to go into professional sport.'

I was encouraged to use my voice and explore my passions outside of the sport. And when I did that, I was finally able to realize my true self-worth. I was more than that of a gymnast.

You can never stop learning in football and I'm always trying to take little things on board that other players do.