If you were ever to interview me after a football game or at a football game or around me during football season is totally different than when you catch me away from football.
There's two times of year for me: Football season, and waiting for football season.
Some things that started in pre-season and then, you know what, the season gets started, you kind of forget about it and then move on to football, and it's strictly football until the season finishes.
When I was three or four, only football was in my head. I went 10 years, and nothing changed - only football, football, football. The strange thing is, nobody played football in my family before.
As a football team, you head into the season the same way with confidence and a positive mindset that you are going to win a bunch of football games.
Football can stand parity better than any of the other sports, I think. Baseball, basketball and hockey need a defining team, in essence to frame the season. Football? Not so much.
There are a lot of guys who football is all they have. And I love football to death, it got me here, it's what I've been doing since I was nine years old, but football ends at a point in time and you've got to be prepared for life after football.
My last year of football I started having a couple of MMA fights, and bringing the weight down. It started in the pre-season of football, just to keep fit, and I did really well.
If I could play football, I'd play football. But not women's football - real football. Or I'd just date a quarterback.
I do have a son. He's out of school now. He never played football. And it had nothing to do with me. I was actually crushed that he didn't play football. I thought, 'Oh my God, this is awful.' My brothers all played football. My dad played football.
We (San Francisco) have football weather during baseball season, and baseball weather during football season.
For what my generation did and went through and so forth, and what these glamour boys earn for what little they play, it's a joke. Is it football? Are you guys football players? Is that what they call football? It's not iron-man football, where you stay on the field for 60 minutes. Everybody! We were iron men. Not a bunch of pussyfoots.
When I was a little bitty boy, I was a fan of boxing. But in Louisiana, it's football, football, football, and then everything else.
In football, we never know what will happen. That's why football is so beautiful, and a lot of people love football.
Some people have this impression of me: 'Boy, he's always so serious on the field. Football. Football. Football.'
Some people have this impression of me: 'Boy, he's always so serious on the field. Football. Football. Football.