Obviously if you don't win the championship, you have things that you need to correct.
Effort overcomes a lot of things.
You can be in the wrong gap, have the wrong hands down, take a wrong step, but one thing a coach can't coach is effort.
If it wasn't for Zach Thomas, I wouldn't be in the Hall of Fame.
I trust Chris Grier. I've been around Chris Grier for a long time. He scouted me. He was around my entire career. He's a smart, smart dude, knows what he's doing.
Great players are obsessive.
There are so many people to thank after 15 years in the pros and seven years of playing in college and high school.
Having three kids it's hard to be bored.
It's cool to be able to make somebody's day and smile, make a kid feel good and make mom and dad happy. And listen, there's times when you're having a bad day or you're irritated about something. But it takes five seconds to make somebody's day.
I enjoyed New York. We had a good time, a good season. We had a good time. Washington was hell.
A lot of the positive things that I would read and hear in the media, I would ignore. I would pay more attention to the negative things to kind of see what was out there.
It's a transition from being an every-down player and then being asked to come in and rotate and wanting to remain fresh or whatever their reasoning is for it.
If you're going to be man enough to say something about somebody else or about two other grown men and kind of affect their relationship then put your name on it, so we have a point of reference and can clear it all up.
The older you get and the longer you've been in the league, you learn more and more about your body, how you need to manage and maintain it, and what you need to do to keep your energy level high.
I like to play poker, and tons of my friends do.
I'm a hold 'em guy. With some games like Omaha high low, there's too much thinking.
I'm a really lazy poker player.
I get a little impatient sometimes.
The day you play football will be the last day you're pain-free. It's a physical game; you're going to be hurt. But being injured and hurt are two different things.
I mean, when you sign up to play a game like football, you have to deal with certain things and a certain level of being uncomfortable and a certain level of pain.
Some guys have higher pain thresholds than others.
I've always been a guy that has a high pain threshold and also refused to accept not trying, or losing, based on being uncomfortable or in pain.
Well, call me biased, but Nike has the best product out there.
Nike's so innovative.
I want to win period, and I would love to win in Miami.
You're in this game to win championships, you know? But I didn't earn it. We just didn't earn it. We had some pretty good teams a few years; it wasn't meant to be. It stinks, but it wasn't meant to be.
In 1997 I thought to myself, 'Man, maybe the NFL is not for me.'
Cam Wake is a freak of nature. He's built different. I've never seen the guy eat anything bad. I'd tell him to grab a snack with me after practice and he'd get a handful of grapes.
Adam Gase has held guys accountable. He's been a fun coach and filled with energy. He's got a certain type of swag to him that makes him real likable to players and they want to play for him.
Perception becomes reality and if you perceive somebody as you want them to be, they will be.
I grew up with a single parent, just my mother.
I was always searching for that male figure, someone to look at and learn off of and become that sounding board or that hard stick that you need sometimes.
My father wasn't in the picture. I never met him. But mom kept us together.
I made it to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. But all I want in this world is for my kids to say, 'He was a Hall of Fame dad.'
I never had a father, but there's no bigger honor, no bigger blessing and no greater job in this world than being a father.
Being prepared and overprepared and kind of being very detailed about situations, I've never had a problem with.
I've never been a fan of micromanaging.
If you talk to anybody, not only in sports... no one likes to be micromanaged.
When your quarterback is so afraid to make a mistake or so afraid to throw a pass because there's a chance it could get intercepted or a chance it could be incomplete, when you're so afraid to make that mistake, you don't give yourself a chance to have success.
You know, when I came in the league I played with guys like Dan Marino, and they just seemed like they were in such a different league than you. A different stratosphere.
One thing you notice very quickly is how big of a fan base the University of Miami has in all sports but in particular in football. They love their football.
There's an expectation, there's a standard, there's a way of life that people expect the Miami Hurricanes to play to and carry themselves to.
I played for a lot of coaches. Jimmy Johnson at first, so you have a little bit of his philosophical ways of motivating people and the hard work that was established in me early, I got from Jimmy Johnson.
I played for coach Nick Saban, one of my favorite people on Earth and probably my favorite coach I ever played for.
Believe it or not, I've always had respect for the Jets fans.
I'm a likeable guy in a lot of ways.
As a pass rusher, you need at-bats. You need to be able to set a tackle up and give him pass rushes and break him down.
People said I was too small, too this, too that, too pretty.
You can't please everybody in life.