This game is a love for me. It's like a girlfriend. And we've been dating for a long time - many years. She's been great to me and I appreciate it. I love my girlfriend.Collection: Dating
I think you get brainwashed being a New York Jet. You're supposed to hate the Patriots, and vice versa, if you're a Patriot, you're supposed to hate New York.
When any New York team plays good, the city is behind 'em 100 percent. They support 'em as best they can.
I used to watch college basketball games. I used to look at Mateen Cleaves and all those guys... Mike Bibby, when he was in Arizona, I used to look up to those guys, and try to mimic them.
When Terrell Owens was coming at me, saying I'm an average corner, that stirred some stuff in me - you know what I'm saying? - to prove him wrong.
If you don't have confidence in this game, that's when you tend to make mistakes, and you tend to not compete to a high level that you want to compete at.
Being successful is about believing in what you're doing and having faith - and just being organic and genuine in everything you do. That's how I try to live my life.
We always say no idea is a dumb idea. It can spark other ideas. Other people can add onto it or elaborate and grow that idea bigger.
Some people may not like me when they have a pen in their hand, so they write what they want. That's fine. I can't control that. The only thing I can control is to continue to do my job.
I gave my blood sweat and tears to New York City and New Jersey - a small-town kid coming from Aliquippa, Pa., coming to one of the most exciting, spectacular cities.
When you play with the New England Patriots, it's a lot of pressure every time you walk in the door, because there's a lot of tension. There's a lot of noise going on in the background, where how the team is ran, it's the unknown.
I mean you got 32 teams with 32 coaches. Some are intense, some look at things another way, and there's different philosophies to win the game.
Whether it be there with the New York Jets or if it be with another team, I have to do what I have to do and play ball and do my services for that team.
Not saying it out of cockiness or anything, I'm a humble guy but I work hard. This has been my dream - to be the best, looking up to guys like Deion Sanders and Darrell Green and Mel Blount.
Every day, my purpose was not to just be the best at my position, but be the best player on the field. That was my motivation.
I have faith in myself, in what I bring to the table, in how I prepare and just me overall as a person.
I love to do abs. And I'm big on squatting. That's where you can get a lot of your explosiveness. The core is the most important thing. It's where everything starts from: the core.
I like to load up on a lot of protein. Us professional athletes, we burn a lot of fat, so protein is probably great.
During the off-season I do a lot of ball drills, whether if it's with a football, or sometimes I will do eye-hand coordination with tennis balls. I throw a tennis ball against the wall and try to chase it. Like a cat-and-mouse with a tennis ball. I think that's where I get my eye-hand coordination.