Frank Gore

When training camp comes, all the guys in my running back room will see how hard I go every day.

You think about when I went to Miami. I played as a freshman, I go in and compete to be a starter, I tear my ACL. Come back, I start, I get off to a good couple of games and I get hurt again. You hear everybody saying, 'Oh, he's done.' I get drafted in the third round. People still said I got drafted too high, saying I'll only play three years.

How I pick running backs, I always go off what situation they're in. I look at guys and what they had around them.

When I'm done, whenever I feel like I'm done, I'm going to come back and retire as a Niner.

I don't want to just be part of a team, I want to help a team, and I don't want anyone to say I rode the bench to get a ring.

Nowadays, kids need promises to play. And I'm not gonna lie, I almost went to Mississippi. But that's the best thing I did, when I changed my mind and went to Miami.

I knew that I wasn't the smartest kid in school, but I knew that I had a way to get out if I did the right things in sports.

My kids get to see me every day.

Some guys go to different teams and as they get older, they just want to ride the coattail of the younger guys. I don't want to do that.

My neighborhood, Coconut Grove, we always played in the streets. It was corner against corner. We all had football teams. Different neighborhoods.

I want to be remembered as a guy who played the game of football right.

Defensive guys don't really understand. It's totally different for offense. Defensive guys are convinced they know us but they just don't understand. Quarterbacks have so much that they have to read and adjust to. They have to look at everybody on the defense. It's totally different for the offense.