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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" There's more to life than success, and if you can try to be more well-rounded, you'll be able to enjoy your success more. It won't own you or control you. "

" A team takes on the personality of the head coach. "

" I feel no need and have no desire to give any attention to other people's opinion of me. "

" As human beings we have a tendency when we like something to tie it up and make sure it's there for a long time. I've been working on being able to let things go. I don't think I ever want to buy property again. "

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" 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. "

" Playing in the National Football League, you're told, you know, where to be, when to be there, what to wear, how to be there. Being able to step away from that, I have an opportunity to look deeper into myself and look for what's real. "

" The moment I started treating my social anxiety disorder, I started feeling better. "

" I started practicing yoga. I started learning some hands-on healing stuff. And I found really good chiropractors, really good massage therapists, and what I found is I've been able to actually peel off layers of trauma on my body and actually move better now than I did. "

" If you identify yourself as a great football player, anytime anyone challenges that, you're going to have some kind of problem. "

" Nine in the box... that's a football term. "

" Human beings aren't supposed to be controlled and told what to do. "

" To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow... dis-ease. So any time there's disease, you're out of balance, whether it's jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear. "

" Maybe I'm stupid or whatever, but to me if I got a concussion, if I could see straight and I could carry a football then I'm not telling anybody. "

" 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'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 definitely have come out of my shell a lot more. When you question who you are, you can't be proud of who you are. Now that I'm trying to peel off those layers and really understand who I am, I don't have anything to be shy about. "

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

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

" If you replace the word God in the Bible with the word Truth, it reads exactly right. "

" I think it's very easy for people to stereotype athletes, good and bad. "

" I stepped away to find out more about myself, which I was having difficulty doing as a football player. I got a chance to travel the world. I studied Eastern philosophy, and I've grown as a person so much. "

" One of my biggest problems is that I'm always so influenced by what other people are thinking about me. "

" 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. "