Ever since I was growing up, I knew I was going to play in the NFL. I never thought anything else.

I fail every once in a while, but failing is your first attempt at learning. I'm not worried about it.

Someone has to be the villain. I'm the most villainized player right now. People don't like me.

Granted, everybody is different, but I think it's real important to know all the people that you are around, and how they operate their history, and things like that. You know where they are coming from a little bit, and you don't insult them, or take something for granted.

Football, I thought, would be a tough sport to make a living in. There is no minor league. You either make it to the NFL or you don't.

Baseball cannot be learned as a trade. It begins with the sport of the schoolboy, and though it may end in the professional, I am sure there is not a single one of these who learned the game with the expectation of making it a business. There have been years in the life of each during which he must have ate and drank and dreamed baseball.

Playing the game, representing the team, giving my all and never letting go has meant everything to me.

I was always thankful for the YMCA. Of course, growing up, you don't really think about it, because when you're a kid, you're in your own world. But back then, it was just so much. I'm going to go the Y, hanging out, playing games all day, playing basketball.