What I think about is about the opportunities that Mike Shanahan gave me as an inexperienced coach. I think about watching a Kyle Shanahan work. Just seeing the stuff he was running, his approach to different scenarios, and getting another understanding of what you can do as an offense... all of that helped me grow.

It's always a consistent approach of trying to get better, listening and learning from everybody else, and then that will help you become a better leader.

I think once you stop learning, you're going to stop growing.

To be able to win a state championship my senior year with the coaches and with some of my closest friends in the world - that was a special memory.

As a kid, my favorite subject was recess. Why? Because I could go play basketball.

Football's an intense game. I love that. It's awesome.

Fans of football and fans of nationhood have a similar zeal. Read the fanzines: their contributors could find a needle-sized diss in a haystack of compliments, and their passions are fundamentalist.

I think we have enough trouble finding community in this country, and sport does provide that. It is a mediocrisy, the greatest mediocrisy. If you're the best, it shows in sports. Nobody can say, 'Well, he's only there because of his connections,' or whatever. In that sense, I suppose it upholds democracy and the best in us.