I don't want to offend nobody, and I don't rub anybody the wrong way. That's a part of growing up.

I just feel like it's my job to take care of my body. I play a contact sport, 99.9 percent injury rate. As far as being injury-prone or getting hurt, it's going to happen. But it's my job to take care of my body, come week in and week out.

I can separate very well. I can do everything I need to do as a player. I'm not the fastest guy always, or the strongest guy, or the biggest guy, but I always get the job done. I'm a workaholic.

There are great days ahead for the University of Maryland football program, and I hope I have helped to put the program in a better place than it was when I first got there.

It is tough when you're by yourself, and I think that's why team sport is so appealing.

Not many people know, but my joints are extremely hypermobile, and that's why I'm more prone to injuries. That's why most of my major injuries were with the joints. I had a career-threatening wrist injury where picking up a fork to feed myself was a problem, and the thought of playing tennis again was so far from my mind.

I go along, play football, work as hard as I can, play as hard as I can, and then go home and spend time with my wife and kids.

I remember one time being told I could not play in a basketball game at the College of William and Mary because I was black, even though I was playing with a United States Army team.