You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast.

As I was coming up, it always seemed like I was learning. If it wasn't from school, it was the 'hood. The influences of the 'hood are very powerful.

The Super Bowl is a game. Life is for real. What I went through helped me get to where I am today. I won't forget. I can't forget. Because a man who forgets his past sometimes loses his soul and forgets where to go in the future.

Leadership can't be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed, you can't fool the guys in the locker room. So when you talk about leadership, it comes with performance. Leadership comes with consistency.

When I started, I'd never had a conducting lesson in my life; I could just do it.

In the small remaining journey of life that I have left, I want to choose who I want to be with and to hang around.

I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.

In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it.