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So much of football relates to Christian life - sacrifice, commitment, discipline.

I'm a Christian who happens to be an athlete, not the other way around.

A lot of people say you always come back to what you are good at. Football has been 25 years of my life, so maybe I'll come back to it in some sort of way.

You can live by biblical principles, and you can teach by those principles and still be a winner. So many coaches think you've got to kick your players in the rear end. You've got to cuss them out. You've got to hit them across the head. No. You don't have to do that.

As a Christian, we can't stand on the sidelines with no team jersey or team colors to show our allegiance to Christ.

One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.

I know nothing about Christianity, nothing about football, and I'm not a Republican.

I wish I'd played Coriolanus.

I'm not even thinking about going back to play football at all. My mind's made up. I'm done.

Whether football's here or not, I will be fine. I go out, I play to win.