Not a lot of people see that when you're growing up. You don't get to see that people really have to work hard to become as good as they are.

You get older, and you want to be a professional athlete; you want to win on the biggest stage.

Throughout my whole football career, I have always known I wasn't the fastest guy.

I had a lot of stats in college, and they didn't count for wins. So whatever it takes to win football games is the goal that I set.

If we can take young people who excel at the highest levels, put them on the same kind of pedestal as the all-state basketball player and the all-state football player, and begin to get the same kind of recognition, it will have a profound effect, and we are finding that it does.

I feel '14 didn't just shape me and my approach from then on: it changed the level of overtaking from other guys in the sport as well. Not many people were doing that, coming from a long way back and trying big passing moves.

I took my time with the sport of MMA. I wrestled, won the Olympics. I boxed for years.

Champions are not the ones who always win races - champions are the ones who get out there and try. And try harder the next time. And even harder the next time. 'Champion' is a state of mind. They are devoted. They compete to best themselves as much if not more than they compete to best others. Champions are not just athletes.