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I wanted to go to college and play football.

If I got a football scholarship, I was going to be a football player.

Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.

I went to college to play football, not to study it.

At 13, I was a big, totally uncoordinated, hopeless football player. I responded to somebody else's rules, and I stayed just good enough to get a scholarship to Columbia, which was looking for scholar-athletes.

I was an all-sport athlete growing up. My dad, I think, hoped I would go to college on a scholarship.

If football had always been my main goal then I would have gone to some scholarship school; I could have gotten more exposure there.

I went to Dartmouth College, graduated, and had the opportunity to play two professional sports - I played for the New England Patriots in the NFL and professional lacrosse for the Boston Blazers. I had an injury, so I had to stop so I could heal. But when I was playing football, I wasn't making a lot of money; I wasn't a superstar.

I played football all my life throughout high school and ran track.

I had sacrificed my entire life to play football.