I didn't know I was different athletically for a long time. I thought everyone did the sort of things that I can do.

I'm not living my life out there trying to make everybody happy. I'm doing things that I feel like are right and things that I believe in.

There are only a few times in a man's life where you have the chance to stand up for something that you believe in and make a statement.

I'll always love the city of Chicago.

It's tough to find the words to say to someone who has lost everything. I can't imagine how it feels.

I just live day to day, in the present. And I try to just be that best version of myself every day - I don't look too far behind, I don't look too far forward.

I get bashful in the spotlight. Even at home or at a birthday party, I hate that stuff.

I didn't want to do media or appearances. You've got to do this and that, fly here to film something. I didn't want to cut into my time for that. You can't pay for your peace of mind and your sanity.

Sometimes you've got to do things you don't want to do. Doing the right thing is not always comfortable; it doesn't always feel good.

You can try your best and do everything right for the most part and still not get sacks, and sometimes you can get sacks that fall into your lap.

There's gonna be times where I don't get sacks, where other guys have two- and three-sack games.

Truth be told, that's really one of the small reasons that I wanted to get out; because everybody knows your business in Charlotte.

People that really know me know how I work.

My approach is going to be all about winning games. All the rest of that stuff will take care of itself.

To be honest with you, it really doesn't get me excited to see anybody get injured.

Tom Brady is a great player who can beat you.

I think I was just born like that, a personality trait. I'm an observer.

You can be an emotional, high-strung guy, and that might work for you. I think I can be reserved and quiet and play as well as the next guy.

I never said I had to be the highest-paid defensive player. That really wasn't the most important thing.

I can assure everyone that there is no academic fraud as it relates to my college transcript. I took every course with qualified members of the UNC faculty and I earned every grade whether it was good or bad.

It feels great to be a Packer.

You have to be a smart player as well as a hard worker.

I've always looked around and pretty much knew that I was built a little different.

Finding real friends - that's something that was an obstacle for me. And learning how to deal with my problems and talking about them.

Talking to your parents is a great idea - if you have that relationship with them.

I was so sheltered as a kid that when I went to college, it was like taking the chains off. That's where the trouble came from. It was the first time for me being by myself, and I got into everything you could think of.

When you get to the big games you never know when you are going to be back so you've got to try as best as you can to take advantage of those opportunities.

In this game you only get a few opportunities.

Each season and each team is different. It takes on a different personality every year.

I had games where I had better statistics than others, but it wasn't because I wasn't playing hard.

Different teams put me in different situations.

I want to get as good as I can possibly be.

I tell you this: I'm not an outdoorsman. Actually, one of my things is to pick a little corner in Borders or Barnes & Noble and fall back and just read.

I want to have an impact on the game. Instead of a sack, how about an interception for a touchdown? I could get 15 tackles. I'm just using those as examples, but any kind of impact would be fine, whether it's a sack or anything else.

People who are given a lot, a lot is expected out of them. I realize that, but I also realize expectations are unrealistic sometimes.

It's something I take a lot of pride in, that people compliment me and hold me in high regard.

In Charlotte, it was all about the Panthers.

As long as my body will allow me to play I'm going to continue to play.

Hopefully I can be one of the better players to play in this league. That's what I'm working for.

I can honestly say I want to be one of the best to ever play the game.

That's what this game is about; it's about relationships.

You don't want to be one of these guys talking all the time, trying to say things all the time, because people start drowning you out.

I've always been a guy who's reserved my words for the right time.

Early in my career, I played with a guy in Mike Rucker who was a threat on the other side.

Colleagues are a wonderful thing - but mentors, that's where the real work gets done.

Every single immigrant we have, undocumented or documented, is a future American. That's just the truth of it.

Stereotypes, they're sensual, cultural weapons. That's the way that we attack people. At an artistic level, stereotypes are terrible writing.

I don't think I could have tackled 'The Pura Principle' until now. It takes me about twenty years to come to term with any difficult period in my life, to get enough of a grasp on it to fictionalize it.

Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations - but its counterspell has always been infidelity. This terrible, terrible betrayal that can tear apart not only another person, not only oneself, but whole families.

We get these lives for free. I didn't do anything to get this life, and no matter what the hardships are, it is free and, in a way, it's an extraordinary bargain.