My conviction is that a full professional also wants to live professionally.

You have to deal with a lot of things when you are a professional football player, and that is not so easy.

I have a philosophy. I was convinced of it, and by winning trophies in four countries, I proved the philosophy worked.

You are always evaluating. That philosophy is very important for me. Because of that, I am - or maybe I should say was - a very successful manager.

I don't know why you play a team sport and not be concerned about making your teammates better and helping your team win games. That's the only thing that really matters, and if you're the best player, surely you're going to have some effect on the game's outcome.

Once I grew from 6'1' to about 6'6', by that time I was going into 12th grade, and that's when I started wanting to play basketball, because, pretty much basketball players always got the girl.

In football, whatever can happen can happen when the team performs well and sometimes when the team does not perform as well.

As athletes, we're defined by what we've accomplished. Those are what most people remember and what you get paid for. But I learned more from my failures than from all of my successes put together - failures as an athlete and as a person.