It helps you as a person when you're teaching something to somebody to understand it even better.

It's tough for kids to stay focused if they don't have something to get them off the streets... that's where the kids can get into the bad things.

Football is a reaction sport.

You have to be coachable.

I don't want to be like these guys having neck surgery, then you got to go have another surgery just to continue to play this game. I love this game but I love myself more.

You've got to be smart about tackling.

I can't be lackadaisical when it's time for me to make any play, whether it's a tackle, fumble recovery, anything that it might be.

My time in Baltimore was awesome, every bit of it.

I always will be a Raven. That's where I was kind of raised in the NFL. I did a lot of growing, and we did a lot of special things. That's something that can never be taken away, and it never will. There's a lot of love there.

Yeah, some people don't know anything about football.

I don't want to play till I'm 40.

There's a reason why, outside of me dropping a few, people don't throw my way, man.

You know mental illness is one of the biggest problems in our world.

Everyone has their own greatness. Whether you reach your own greatness depends on your environment, your structure, the company you keep and your attitude.

There will be good and bad, right and wrong. Your reaction of choice, good or bad, has consequences that affect you and those around you.

That's what being a human is about, leaving this place better than we got it.

There's no place like Baltimore.

My philosophy was simple. I was trying to score when I got the football in my hand. There was no question about that.

We had a great staff in college, so after I got to the league, I'd already seen stuff I knew. Then it was enhanced, playing the game with great guys like Ray Lewis and Terrell Suggs, Haloti Ngata, Chris McAlister.

It's a kid's game we play. Nothing more than that.

The football fans loved the way I played the game.

I know a lot about football. I know a lot about this game.

We are human and regular people at the end of the day. We're not immune from the trials and tribulations that go on through life.

To be playing in my first Super Bowl in New Orleans, it's special.

The game takes a toll on your body.

The relationships I have in Baltimore will never change.

I'll beat a bunch of good guys, and then I'll get a ton of fans come up to me and go, 'Do you think you can beat Conor McGregor?' And I'm like, 'Oh my God. You guys are disillusioned.' They think because this man's popular he's good.

There's not a single strike that good preparation can't negate.

I beat Gilbert Melendez, and he got two shots at the title.

I've done it a couple times where I've had fight of the year. It's not what you aspire to.

I don't have a nickname. But, hey, they can call me what they want - The Silent Assassin, The Underground King. In Japan, they call me American Knuckle Star. Call me what you want.

The more dangerous the opponent, the better fight I've fought. It always made me move in ways I'd never moved before.

There's a lot of guys in the UFC who are good at one thing, and they get matched up stylistically well.

Me? I'm no sob story. I get paid well, and I live comfortably.

The fighters and the fights are what makes UFC great.

I never prepare according to how I feel for a fight. I always prepare to be a better me.

I never take a round off or a run off or a push-up off; that's just not in me.

I was never the most technical; I was never the best at one aspect at this sport, but what I was always good as was negating people's strengths and putting them in terrible situations where they're uncomfortable.

It's hard when you win the title to not think, 'I'm here. Now what do I do?'

When I joined UFC, I said I want to be involved in fights where millions of fans are watching, biting their fingernails, thinking, 'What the heck is going to go on here?'

There's a part of martial arts where we need humility and respect.

Conor McGregor - this guy is so offensive minded and never on the defense that whenever you put him on the defense, he gets so flustered and so upset.

I'm proud of both sides, and they are both really well known to be fighting heritages, so I tell everyone all the time - they say, 'What are you'? - I say I'm Irish. I'm Puerto Rican. I guess I was born to fight.

I'm a whole lot more than just Spanish or Irish or whatever, but definitely, it's given me help. It's given me a push, and I'm very proud of my Spanish heritage.

I've got the fighting Irish, and Puerto Ricans are some of the best fighters in the world. I'm proud of who I am, but it doesn't define me as a person.

I don't like going to 155; I do it because everyone else does.

It's MMA - anything can happen. You can throw a punch from one knee, a punch from anywhere.

We got four-ounce gloves here. It's not hard to knock someone out.

If you're not successful at a certain weight, it rarely has anything to do with gaining or losing 10 pounds. It's something inside of you that you need to fix in order to win. It rarely has anything to do with cutting 10 pounds.

Although I'm shorter, all of my weight I carry in my back and my butt. That's where most of my weight is.