Ever since I was growing up, I knew I was going to play in the NFL. I never thought anything else.

I fail every once in a while, but failing is your first attempt at learning. I'm not worried about it.

Someone has to be the villain. I'm the most villainized player right now. People don't like me.

Granted, everybody is different, but I think it's real important to know all the people that you are around, and how they operate their history, and things like that. You know where they are coming from a little bit, and you don't insult them, or take something for granted.

I was fortunate enough to play in a number of finals, and I can still remember waking with butterflies in my stomach. It is at moments like those you realise why you fell in love with football in the first place.

If a star football player can have a mythical girlfriend, why can't I have a mythical Congress?

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.

I try and tell all the kids that I meet that hope to be amazing one day and be a professional athlete or a doctor or a lawyer or whatever they want to be. I tell them they can do all that because Tourette's won't stop them.