I want to win four or five championship rings. That's how I dream. I dream big.
When I go out on the field, I just put it in my mind that I'm playing for my family.
It's time for me to step up and take control. That's what I've always been used to.
You want to be playing your best in December and hopefully it'll carry over into January.
I don't like to sit still.
I have the responsibility to work hard and get ready so we can take this team where we need to go.
We'll do whatever it takes to score as many points as we can-and definitely one more point than the opponent.
My dad means a lot to me. He's the one who put a football in my hands.
I consider myself a leader of this football team, along with a lot of other guys.
People say I'm injury-prone but that's definitely not true.
I've already developed trust in my teammates -as a player and as a person.
I'm getting better every day.
I've been calling plays in the huddle since I was seven.
We're not attempting to circumcise rules.
Every game I've ever played, regardless if it was pre-season or Super Bowl, meant the same to me, and I laid it all on the line.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
You can look directly at the NFL and see how successful they've become because they have central control, central voice, and it doesn't mean that the owners don't have a say, but the commissioner runs it, and he's the one who speaks for them when they go out and do commercial deals.
As a young rookie NFL player, you go to the rookie symposium and the one thing they tell you is, "You guys know what the NFL stands for?" Everybody looks around like, "National Football League...?" The guy's like, "Nope - Not For Long." They tell you right there to get prepared for your second life. You take that in, and I've always been one to prepare early, to see ahead and anticipate and believe in great things happening, and they do. I'd already known that concept and appreciated that concept, but for me, I was always going to be here for a while. I just believed in that.
There are only four U.S. tournaments that the very best players in the world play every year - Palm Springs, Miami, Cincinnati, and the U.S. Open. So how would golf or NFL or NHL fare if there were only four times a year that their very best were visible? Tennis went international, and for us to expect it to be popular media-wise is very naïve. And that translates into children and families being interested.
My biggest advice to an official who wants to pursue college or come into the NFL is to make sure you're doing it for the right reasons. If you're coming in just because you want to be the female in the NFL, then I think you're doing it for the wrong reasons. If you're doing it because you want to be the best official, then pursue it.
When you get to the rarefied air that people like Montana and Steve Young and other NFL quarterbacks are breathing, you can't believe the competitive, the cutthroat competitive nature of things.
I don't deal in the world of fair. The NFL is the no fair league and I experienced that as much as anybody.
Football leads to a crime rate among people that play in the NFL that is less than the gen pop, the general population. The numbers have been run. It's just that people who play football are stars and, as such, what they do occurs with greater media scrutiny. So when one of them happens to engage in some sort of questionable behavior, it happens to (in a lot of it people's minds) speak for the whole sport and everybody that plays it.
When I first came into the NFL, I was just trying to be super, super ready to learn the plays and all that. Now, I've found more balance. I think that with new life coming in, and family and everything else, balance has been critical. That goes for the social media part, too - allowing the fans to come into our world a little is cool.
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