Nobody can determine what your life means or how much your valued. You are your value.
My love of wine happened organically while being in Napa Valley during training camp while playing for the Oakland Raiders in the 90s.
Eric Turner; man, that was my man a hundred grand.
Going into Green Bay was just a fresh start and I was able to stay on the field and go out there and do my thing and I had opportunity.
Jon Gruden just wants you to come to work, work hard and produce on Sundays. He's not really too much worried about babysitting or holding somebody's hand.
Yeah, you make some tackles or you meet the ground and you feel the pain. Ain't no question about it. Whether it is the shoulder, the back, making the wrong plant when you fall - yeah, you'll feel it. You get right up. You go back to the huddle. You can't show weakness out there. You try not to. You don't want to give a sign.
I grew up watching my older brother very closely who was a football player and a star in my hometown of Fremont, Ohio. My love of the game started early because of watching him. My neighborhood played a ton of football, pickup games outside in the backyards of the apartments where I grew up.
The time that I spent out of camp, I made sure when I sat out that I was in tip-top condition.
No one can do anything by themselves. Sometimes you may need help and sometimes you will be offering it.
You can't say Charles doesn't know what he's talking about.
So, growing up myself, I played flag all the way up until seventh grade. So, we didn't tackle until I was 12, 13 years old or whatever it was.
Any time you end your career, no matter what it is, it's tough to leave, regardless of if you know it's time or not.
The hot tub is my best friend.
Every player, when you get released, you feel like you still have a lot to offer. And that team is telling you, 'No, you don't have a lot to offer, so we're moving on.'
The Raiders took me fourth overall because they had a certain need, and that was for me to come in and play man-to-man, bump-and-run all day, to guard the best receiver. You understand your job going in, so that's what you focus on. Would I have liked to play receiver and go both ways? Yep, would have loved to have done that.
What Chris Webber and the Fab Five - Jalen, Juwan, Ray, Jimmy and those guys - they created a culture, and Michigan was a beneficiary of that. Chris Webber was a big part of it.
You can't talk about the NFL without the Raiders, the three Super Bowl championships, what Al Davis meant to the league.
I want to portray myself as myself.
In this life you make mistakes, and some people make more than others.
I never intended on playing as long as I have, but this is the way it's happened and I'm so grateful for it.