It was a very exciting time for me to play professional football, finally.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Most exciting for me was to make the Pro Bowl in 14 of 15 years.
Football was a wonderful experience for me. It was a means of, oh, I don't know, sustaining for much of my youth. In times of trouble, I've always had football. I always knew I was a football player. And that was a comfort on many occasions.
I had sacrificed my entire life to play football.
Football has been my life for as long as I can remember.
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.
By the time I was 10 years old, my entire life was football. Training, reading, watching, even playing football on PlayStation. I was totally focused on it. I especially loved the creative players - the maestros.
The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player.
Football has been my life.
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.
I stopped playing football because I'd done as much as I could. I needed something which was going to excite me as much as football had excited me.