I'm going to make a difference in other people's lives because who I am as a person rather than who I was as a football player.

If you deny the fact that things are happening to you, that this is going on, whether it's negative or positive, you're just putting yourself behind the 8-ball because you're not facing it head on and dealing with it in a positive way that you've learned how to.

I think that if I was only known for who I was as a football player and only that, it just would have been a tragedy.

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