It is difficult to play with your back to goal.

I've never destroyed someone's career.

I prefer defensive midfielder because I know my job when I play there. More things are in front of you.

I try to do my job, give the best of myself, and win games.

By the time I was 5, I was already an outcast. It was the early 1960s, and I was part of the only Jewish family in a decidedly Christian suburb of Waltham, Mass.

If you don't read it, you don't know. I mean, that's why I have a PR team. They read it and tell me if there's something, and that keeps you focused. I know my family and me well enough; why do I need to read about myself? I'm not going to change, I'm very stubborn in this way. I am what I am.

I can no more reread my own books than I can watch old home movies or look at snapshots of myself as a child. I wind up sitting on the floor, paralyzed by grief and nostalgia.

Mizzou was my real family. I loved it. Football was a sense of home. A home I never had.