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“We all played sports, my brothers, my daddy, my uncles. That's all we had.”
“The football fans loved the way I played the game.”
“I always said I wanted to become a master of my game, like Bruce Lee. I mastered my art of football, because that's what it truly is when you understand it.”
“We had church and sports, and that's how we stuck together. We were so hungry sometimes, but if somebody's playing football, you can completely forget about eating until later on that night.”
“To be playing in my first Super Bowl in New Orleans, it's special.”
“There's a lot of good fans out there, but there's also a lot of bad - I don't want to say bad people, but a lot of people who just want to try to get on your nerves and stuff like that, man.”
“I take care of myself. I try my best.”
“You have to be coachable.”
“Encourage those around you. Encourage yourself.”
“I love Bill Belichick. He is a great coach, great man - raising men to do the right thing and win championships in this league.”
“The game takes a toll on your body.”
“Not everybody is going to understand you. You can't please everybody. That's just human nature. Everybody has their opinion, and that's going to be there. You deal with it. You take it in stride. You take the good with the bad, the bad with the good. That's part of life.”
“When kids grow up into adults now... they learn that taking care of their body is like taking care of their car. You're not going to put bad gas into your car. Why not treat your body the same way? It makes all the sense in the world for us to do the right thing for our bodies.”
“It helps you as a person when you're teaching something to somebody to understand it even better.”
“I always play the game a certain way, regardless of what guys say.”
“Everyone has their own greatness. Whether you reach your own greatness depends on your environment, your structure, the company you keep and your attitude.”
“Coming out of college, I wasn't considered the fastest, the biggest or the smartest. There was no way around that.”
“It wasn't about accolades, but showing that I was bred and predestined to be one of best football players to come into the league - and, every Sunday, to help my team to win.”
“I've been treated with the utmost respect by the whitest of white guys, and I've been treated bad by the whitest of white persons. I've been treated bad by the blackest of black persons and treated good by the blackest of black persons. So at the end of the day, I know it's about humanity - do you have a good heart or a bad heart?”
“We have a bunch of American citizens who step up because that's what we do. We'll step up and go across the world to help people out. When it comes to our own backyard, it's always a different conversation.”