Growing up in New Orleans as Archie Manning's son, I felt like a target, and I've always known that whatever I'd do, people would hear about it. So I've had my guard up, and maybe that's molded my personality.

When you go through a significant injury and have a major career change, you truly do go one year at a time, and you don't look past what's going on now, because you are not sure what's going to happen. Tomorrow is not promised.

I'm totally convinced that the end of my football career is just the beginning of something I haven't even discovered yet.

It goes without saying, winning against a good team in a hostile crowd on the road, it's just an absolutely huge win.

My feeling is that you should try to do the things you enjoy most in life. I chose acting as a career because I enjoyed it then as I do now. The only question for me then was, 'Can I make a living at it?'

About 10 million people start a business each year, and about one out of two will make it. The average entrepreneur is often on his or her third startup.

I spend 90 percent of my time saying no, and my accountant yells at me for it, but when I started in this business, I wanted my career to have legs.

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