That's the biggest difference from college to NFL. Everybody's so talented at this level, the difference is knowing the game - knowing where to go with the ball in my position, knowing how to execute your job to the highest level. In college, you could just get by playing ball.
I think that the NFL is better when Cam Newton is playing at his highest level.
I want to make my mark in the NFL. This is the highest level, and this is where it goes down in history.
I won at every level - all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I've won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won't be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.
Of course I feel like any player that plays this game should want to reach the highest level and the highest accolades, which includes the All-Star Game. So, yeah, I would be dumb not to want to be an All-Star.
Going to that level, a lot of guys get to the NFL, and they don't make a long career out of it. The NFL is very hard. One percent of college athletes make it to the NFL.
The highest standards of conduct must be met by everyone in the NFL because it is a privilege to represent the NFL, not a right.
Obviously with social media, everybody has an opinion on you. Somebody catches a pass on you in a game and suddenly you're the worst player ever to play in the NFL.
The NBA is intense, but the NFL is a whole 'nother level of intensity and dramatic, game-changing plays.
You know how many people would give up their life to get in one NBA game or NFL game or get one fight? Just to do something that has been a dream and they've aspired to do for their whole life - can you imagine what that means for a person?
As an NFL analyst, my job was to watch countless hours of game film and critique NFL coaches and that's what I've been doing the last 10 years. And there are coaches that I question in the NFL, and at other big collegiate institutions.
In my very first NFL game, I completed my first pass to Hall of Fame running back Marshall Faulk.
I wanted to end my career still at the highest level, and Bayern is the highest level.
If he is having a bad game, a team-mate might feel Paul Scholes is not quite on his game, but a spectator wouldn't notice. Scholes, of all the players I have played with, has the highest bottom level.
Some of the biggest compliments you can get are from people who have played the game at the highest level.
Only 7 percent of NFL fans have ever been inside an NFL stadium. Seven... have ever been inside. So the NFL is certainly about the Colosseum of Rome. It can't be a studio game.