What I would tell young players is that as you get older, the best thing you can do is try to have other interests and have opportunities.

I don't feel like my speed or my power or my desire to play this game has diminished at all.

Sometimes success will get in the way of maturity -- at least temporarily.

I think I have a tendency to look at things subjectively rather than objectively when I reflect on my experience.

I had a lot of friends in high school and in college, and we had a good time.

I am an honest, God-fearing man who is intensely dedicated to being the best person I can be on and off the football field.

I've let a lot of things go, and obviously football is one of them. I think the hardest thing to let go is your self-image. That's what I'm working on now.

I want to really start focusing on what I want to accomplish and what it is I want to achieve, but not micromanaging this or that and focusing on the little things.

It's something that I had been pushing down my whole life. The search for meaning, I guess, the whispering of the soul.

Now that I have conquered social anxiety disorder, I find pleasure in fans approaching me.

Anytime you play a team sport, the success of the team really makes everything better. It's nice.

I'm closer to being happy. I'm doing things that make me happy. In football I loved to practice and I loved to play, but I hated to be in meetings, hated to talk to the media, hated to have cameras in my face, hated to sign autographs. I hated to do all those things.

I like to live in places that are kind of off in the cuts so people can't really find me even if they wanted to.

It's funny, people say 'Welcome back' when I haven't gone anywhere.

I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'

I've gotten to a point, where I realize that happiness doesn't come from the outside.

And I think if you look at any relationship, for the relationship to be productive and to move forward and to grow, sometimes things have to be said that one person or the other person is not going to like to hear.

I do feel like a loner but I think it's because I look at things differently than other people.

I don't think people change. I think they definitely mature. But I think the essence of what I am today is the same as when I was five years old. It's just maturity. I've become a healthier, fuller expression of that essence.

I would drive home and see people wearing my No. 34 jersey and wonder why, because I didn't feel worthy of that. And all the time I just knew people were staring at me, talking about me everywhere I went.