Everybody's got haters, but your city's always behind you. It's only right to give back.
I consider myself a leader. I am not a follower.
I try to do anything I can to quicken things up.
As you get a lot of exposure, a lot of people looking at you, you have to take it more so how you carry yourself, how people view you. You have to worry about your image.
I'm a football fanatic. I love the game of football. I love learning new things, and I love being taught things. So I try to learn as much as I can, and even at a young age, I was really focused on how to be better and trying to learn all the techniques.
I have to go at a good pace because how you practice, that's how you play.
You haven't been on tape, nobody sees what you can do, nobody sees how you play, so they don't have anything to watch.
The thing about football is when you've got guys that work hard and do things the right way, it'll come together... it's supposed to if you put the work in.
Press coverage is nothing different. I mean, you win off the line, you win. It's that simple.
When you're playing football, and your enemies are there, you don't have a lot of time to think to yourself. You've got stuff to handle. You've got places to be, meetings to go to, bigger fish to fry. You really don't attack the emotional side of your life.
My little brothers can ask me any question in the world, and if I've got the answer, I'm going to give it to them.
Not having a father is big. You need guidance. I know, personally, when my father died, I needed guidance; I needed somebody to show me how to be a man, how to grow up, basically how to do the right thing.
It's an emotional time for you when you get injured. You're going through so much. You have a lot of time to think to yourself.
They say when you break your leg, you get a little taller and a little faster, and I got both, I think.
Quarterbacks like guys who try to do everything they can for them and put it on the line for them. So that's what I try to do.
You want to have that trust with your QB; you want to build that camaraderie throughout your team and just have that relationship with them, so when you're out there, he doesn't have anything to worry about. He tells you to run this route, you run it to the best of your ability and be there for him.
I know I'm not the biggest guy or the fastest guy, but you've got to bring something to the table that someone else is not. I love football too much.
There are going to be games where you don't have the greatest conditions, so to show that you can do it in bad conditions is a plus.
I wanted to stay home and go to Maryland because I'm really the man of my house. We lost our father when I was 14. Somebody had to be there, so I had to take it and put that on my shoulders.
I just want to get better all around and contribute more.
