Quote

So my dad raised me, and he's a huge football fan.

I always told my dad I'd play professional football.

I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid.

I attribute my entire football career, as far as getting me started, getting me interested, keeping me that way was my father. He went to every game even though he was crippled and wasn't real healthy.

My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, he was a man of his times.

My dad wanted me to play football so bad, he took me to Washington High School on the west side of Atlanta because they were number one. They never lost.

I've been playing American football since I was six years old. I was a captain of my high school team, playing strong safety.

My father was never around. But I glorified my father, and I was always daddy's little girl. He was my first soccer coach.

My dad always played sports. He played football. I always wanted to play football because my dad played football, but my mom never wanted me to play football because she said she couldn't take me getting hit.

And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5' 11". So I just picked baseball.