Just understanding that if you're not growing up, you're just moving backwards, and I'm a person that I always want to grow and learn and not be the smartest person in the room, because when you're not the smartest person in the room, you're always learning things.

I was a defensive lineman coming out of high school who was considered amongst the top... maybe the top six guys, top five guys, and wanted to prove to my team that I was going to be a top guy going into college.

Growing up, I always thought of Detroit as a basketball town because of the Pistons, but everyone says it's really, at its core, a football town.

My job is to defeat the guy in front of me, do it until he quits, and then wait for them to send in the next guy.

I wound up getting my degree in sports medicine and nutrition because I wanted to work in the medical field. But I wound up taking a trip to Los Angeles and decided being an actor sounds pretty cool, too.

The concept of head coach simply means being hyperfocused on the pitch and team performance.

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.

A keeper has to adjust his game to the team. If the team moves further up, he has to do the same. It's nothing I've invented.