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I've found that prayers work best when you have big players.

I'll continue to tackle back. I want to help the team as much as I can, and if I need to get back and defend, I will.

You want your coach's blessing.

My thing of not playing offensive tackle is the health issue. I don't want to be that big. That could end up not being good for your health.

God's first line of defense - and offense - for every situation is prayer.

I always had a philosophy which I got from my father. He used to say, 'Listen. God gave to you the gift to play football. This is your gift from God. If you take care of your health, if you are in good shape all the time, with your gift from God no one will stop you, but you must be prepared.'

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.

I'm just going to do everything my coaches ask me.

My feeling is that when you're managing a baseball team, you have to pick the right people to play and then pray a lot.