I'm excited about the opportunity to get out there and show not only what I can do but, more importantly, what this team can do with me in there.
I don't like to sit still.
I'm out there having as good a time as I did in the backyard since I was five-years-old.
You want to be playing your best in December and hopefully it'll carry over into January.
It's time for me to step up and take control. That's what I've always been used to.
Anybody who has watched me play knows I'm not one of the fastest guys, but I understand what's going on around me and what to look for. I know what the defense is doing.
I consider myself a leader of this football team, along with a lot of other guys.
I have the responsibility to work hard and get ready so we can take this team where we need to go.
I grew up on the game.
I've been calling plays in the huddle since I was seven.
I've already developed trust in my teammates -as a player and as a person.
I'm getting better every day.
We'll do whatever it takes to score as many points as we can-and definitely one more point than the opponent.
We're not attempting to circumcise rules.
Every game I've ever played, regardless if it was pre-season or Super Bowl, meant the same to me, and I laid it all on the line.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
There are only four U.S. tournaments that the very best players in the world play every year - Palm Springs, Miami, Cincinnati, and the U.S. Open. So how would golf or NFL or NHL fare if there were only four times a year that their very best were visible? Tennis went international, and for us to expect it to be popular media-wise is very naïve. And that translates into children and families being interested.
You can look directly at the NFL and see how successful they've become because they have central control, central voice, and it doesn't mean that the owners don't have a say, but the commissioner runs it, and he's the one who speaks for them when they go out and do commercial deals.
My biggest advice to an official who wants to pursue college or come into the NFL is to make sure you're doing it for the right reasons. If you're coming in just because you want to be the female in the NFL, then I think you're doing it for the wrong reasons. If you're doing it because you want to be the best official, then pursue it.
When you get to the rarefied air that people like Montana and Steve Young and other NFL quarterbacks are breathing, you can't believe the competitive, the cutthroat competitive nature of things.
First of all you got ESPN, Fox Sports, all that, you don't miss one thing. People don't understand that. Like you could watch the whole NFL, I've got the RedZone coverage, I got my DirecTV stuff. You can watch everything in the NFL in a whole hour and you missed nothing. Anything that was worth watching is going to be played over and over again. It's like the MTV Awards.
Football leads to a crime rate among people that play in the NFL that is less than the gen pop, the general population. The numbers have been run. It's just that people who play football are stars and, as such, what they do occurs with greater media scrutiny. So when one of them happens to engage in some sort of questionable behavior, it happens to (in a lot of it people's minds) speak for the whole sport and everybody that plays it.
I don't deal in the world of fair. The NFL is the no fair league and I experienced that as much as anybody.
When I first came into the NFL, I was just trying to be super, super ready to learn the plays and all that. Now, I've found more balance. I think that with new life coming in, and family and everything else, balance has been critical. That goes for the social media part, too - allowing the fans to come into our world a little is cool.
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