If I'm tired, I'm coming out. I won't do that to my teammates and stay on the field when I know I'm not going to be able to do it.

I didn't think of football growing up. This wasn't my career, something I chose. It was something I was picked in.

Every year you've got somebody coming in and trying to kick you off, so you have to prove yourself. Even for the coaches, too. Their jobs are always on the line.

Growing up, as a kid, my father was always there.

When I play all the time, I play with a smile on my face, and then I can help my team with my goals and my game and the way I can play football.

I know my strengths. Painfully aware of the weaknesses. There's many. I love sports. So working towards a common goal, that's exciting to me.

It sounds like a cliche, but without a strong group, you win nothing in football.

I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey.