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Playing football helped me a lot. Just reading the quarterback's eyes and reading receivers, figuring out what they want to do.

For me, I've learned that the best thing is to focus on the team you play for and yourself and what you need to do.

I felt like I was better at football than I am in basketball.

To me it was never about what I accomplished on the football field, it was about the way I played the game.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn't.

Football taught me how hard you had to work to achieve something.

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.

I had this urge to play the game of football, because so many people - I shouldn't say so many, a handful of people - said I couldn't do it. For me, it was one of those things that I just believe in my talent that the Lord gave me, and I wanted to take advantage of it.

Playing football was like being trapped in a rhythm, and my whole career was like that. You have very little time to switch off.

I just felt like reflecting on my junior year, when I didn't know what I was doing, I left a lot of stuff out there. Actually, I gained close to 700 yards more and I took myself out of a lot of games.