To me it was never about what I accomplished on the football field, it was about the way I played the game.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Football has always been a big part of my life. Almost from the day I was born, playing and coaching football were all I really ever wanted to do.
I've been through a lot off the field. I think that kind of translates onto the field. Football serves for a lot of life lessons, and so it allows me to stay humble and continue to work.
Football taught me how hard you had to work to achieve something.
It was about being wanted, it was about winning, and it was about my passion for the game. I just loved it. I absolutely loved to compete and to step out onto that football field with my teammates.
I was a hockey player. I played hockey forever. That was my life and my job until I got injured, so I get sports, and I get the sports atmosphere, the feeling around other athletes, but I never played football.
I tried to look around to see what I wanted to do. Football was something I knew the most about.
I had sacrificed my entire life to play football.
Football was what I was good at, and it was what I loved.
I did enjoy football, but the injury factor for me, you know, I had so many issues. I don't know how long my career would've been.
Football was not what I was put on this planet to do.