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I used to play basketball and I was pretty competitive, but I was never a bad loser. I never got angry. For me it was always about doing my best and devoting myself to a challenge.

I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.

You don't have to try to hurt people and be angry to be an athlete.

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

For years in football I was angry with the game, angry with pundits and, a lot of the time, angry with the journalists writing about me. All that changed when I got my break in movies.

I've played sports and been active my whole life.

You really don't do anything else in your life; it's a very little bubble that you grow up in. And you have to live in that bubble because of the intensity of the sport.

We play a sport. It's a game. At the end of the day, that's all it is, is a game. It doesn't make you any better or any worse than anybody else. So by winning a game, you're no better. By losing a game, you're no worse. I think by keeping that mentality, it really keeps things in perspective for me to treat everybody the same.

I never played sports. I wasn't any good at them.

I'm an athlete. I go out there and fight my heart out.