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“I was never a big spender.”
“There's a way to speak your mind. You don't just go off and say whatever you feel is right. You have to say what you feel is right and say it if it's something that works for the team.”
“When guys get to a certain age or certain level in their career maybe they don't do as much or work as hard so they start to lose some of that stuff. It's inevitable that at some point your going to lose most of what you've had.”
“I learned early in my career that I had to be prepared for life after football because you never knew when it would end.”
“My favorite piece of clothing as a boy was a purple Magic Johnson jersey from the Los Angeles Lakers.”
“In high school, my dream was to go to the NBA. But when recruiting came around, the letters for football compared to basketball were like 25 to one, and my one wasn't from Duke.”
“There are a handful of guys that are really good at what they're doing from the receiver position, which is the easiest position in the NFL. There are a handful of guys that are good at it. There's not one particular guy that would concern me when I'm going into a game, but there are guys that you have to take notice of in the league.”
“I talked to a lot of people that switched careers. Not necessarily to acting, but switched jobs. The 'becoming a student again' is the thing that always kept coming up.”
“My mind-set is to come in and compete and be the best I can possibly be.”
“When you go into free agency and have options, any team is up for you to be on - and the Raiders, obviously with me having been there for so long, have a great shot at it.”
“I give my all for the sport, and I just don't like it when, if things don't work out, people say, 'Oh, he doesn't care enough about football.' That was the thing that hurt me the most.”
“For all of the achievements and awards, to be able to retire as a Raider ranks highest among all of those.”
“Ultimately, the Niners just felt at the end of the day like the right place to be. I was really impressed with the way they run their organization, impressed with the winning, impressed with coaches and players. Everything felt like it was in line.”
“When I speak, the things that I'll say will mean something. And if it's not going to mean anything, I won't say it.”
“I tell people all the time that football taught me about life in every single aspect.”
“It takes time to change a system and to change a mindset.”
“Months after I retired, the Kings won the Stanley Cup and I was there for that game... I happened to be there with a buddy of mine and I was like, 'Oh, I miss this.'”
“I always grade myself hard.”
“I think any time you get a boost of confidence, it fuels you to do more, and that kept happening for me.”
“As far as acting, I just went in and just started training. It was the first thing I did right when I retired. I just went in and found class, and found people, found the right coaches that could sort of just train me along.”