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I've learned that football sometimes was an outlet. It was a way for me to release anger, release frustration.

When you're playing football, and your enemies are there, you don't have a lot of time to think to yourself. You've got stuff to handle. You've got places to be, meetings to go to, bigger fish to fry. You really don't attack the emotional side of your life.

If you identify yourself as a great football player, anytime anyone challenges that, you're going to have some kind of problem.

Lets be honest: I'm an athlete, not an entertainer as much. So as an athlete, I am a guy who likes the physical confrontation of the football field. I like playing nose-guard; I like having two 350 pound guys trying to rip my head off.

I've always felt that people put me down, and I'd fight back. I played football 15 years, and nobody gave me any credit, and they never will do.

Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it.

At many a moment on many a day, I am convinced that pro football must be a game for madmen, and I must be one of them.

Football is my base; that's where I learned to be tough. I was a strong safety, and that's what I do: I hit people. The mentality is football, the wrestling is precision.

I don't like people who get into fights about football - or anything else.