Punishment for doing your job well is an unparalleled professional pressure.

My breadth of football experience, my injury history, and my all-or-nothing goal to become one of the best linebackers in the NFL, combined with all I'd been learning about the game's neurological effects on the brain, convinced me I'd be wise in choosing another career.

If I was a marginal guy or a practice squad player or a career-long special teamer, you take a hell of a lot less hits in those roles.

I couldn't really justify playing for money, and I think what I wanted to achieve put me at too great a risk, so I just decided on another profession.

It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness.

When people say to me, 'You're so prolific!' it's, like, no, I'm just hopeless with money.

Compared to TV, 'Palookaville' was restriction-free, except we had no money and no time.

People send me records, and if don't like them, I won't do them; I don't care how much money you offer.