I like anywhere with a beach. A beach and warm weather is all I really need.
After a workout, you definitely have to have a protein shake. I drink my six-pound whey protein all the time, too. I throw some fruit in there - strawberries, blueberries - with some peanut butter and banana, and it gives you all the recovery you need from a hard day of lifting and running.
When you're growing up, you need to stay around people who are headed in the right direction and stay away from people who will take you in the wrong direction.
Just put football first, or your job first. Give everything you've got all week, work hard, work super-hard to take it to the next level every week. And when you feel like you got to the point where you want to be, you definitely need the time to go out, relax, have a good time, take all the stress off it.
My pet peeves are people touching me a lot. Random dudes grabbing me and slapping me across the back. They're not doing it on purpose, but it's like they forget I'm a person. But you can't do anything about it. What are you going to do?
You always want to be on top of the playbook. You always want to be refreshed with the plays, make sure you're on the same page with everyone else.
You've just got to have to put the work in. Put work first. Put the hours in and the time in, and do your job. And when you get a little time off, you can go out and have a little fun. But you have to make sure you get done what you need to get done first off.
I've got to keep on working, keep on grinding, and keep on going out there to get better.
Beer is nasty.
My mom would always travel with us to everything; my dad introduced us to the weight room and showed us how to properly work out.
After a game, after a week of eating right, eating clean, you feel like that's when you deserve a nice cheat meal and basically hop on anything after the game.
No one makes better scrambled eggs than me.
If you go out once a week, they can blast on you that you're always out all the time, but I always put work first, and people sometimes don't see the side of going into the weight room, behind-the-scenes-type stuff with football.
In the off season, you work out for two hours a day, and then you got all this other time off. I like doing other stuff. Football obviously isn't going to last a lifetime either, so it's always cool to get in front of a camera, do commercials, and do endorsements for products that you love.
Usually, about 2 hours before a game, I stuff in a nice peanut butter and jelly with chocolate milk.
You want to be the best at work in order to go out and celebrate.
When you get off five or six months, and you're not competing as an athlete, you want to get back out on the field.
Whenever I'm with my boys, we go out together, and not always to a certain party or anything. It's just always a lot of laughs.
You're grateful to have brothers in the league, and then when it comes down to it, and you have a brother on the same team, that's awesome. It's a lot more support and a lot more intensity we can bring out in each other because we know each other like that.
Everyone always helped me out growing up, and everyone now supports me Sunday. So whenever there's a chance to give back, to the community, to the less fortunate kids so they have the opportunity to gain the most potential they can in their life to be success, it's always good to do.
