Preparation meets opportunity, and that causes success if you're prepared to do your job and you practice a lot, more times than not you're going to be successful.

There's some guys - Michael Jordan and Mariano Rivera and Tiger Woods - that were blessed with the ability just to be... great.

I think you can develop your ability to be clutch, if that's the word that you will use, your ability to focus and to be able to block out all the external stuff.

In the end, the Super Bowl is just a football game. You try to take a couple of big, deep breaths and convince yourself it's just another game. You try to, anyway.

It would be fun if I were 40 pounds heavier and a little bit faster to get in and play some linebacker.

There's a lot of fun things about this sport, but trying to hoist that trophy at the end is what we all play for.

Every once in a while you do have a bad day.

When you get one blocked and another partially blocked, you've got to see if you're hitting them low or what.

Three surgeries on the same limb, that's a tall order.

Looking back on it, I'm extremely blessed to play on two very good teams, with great quarterbacks and owners.

I know I'm going to shoot a leopard.

I'm a South Dakota kid.

I know I'm going to shoot a buffalo.

I was born with a shotgun in my hand, chasing pheasant through the cornfields. My dad probably started taking me out when I was 4, 5 or 6 years old.

Cleaning out your locker the first week of January is not a whole lot of fun and it always leaves a lousy taste in your mouth.

It's fun running out onto the field. It's much more fun playing in the playoffs.

I learned early that it's very important to approach every single kick you attempt, even those in practice, as if it were in a game.

In golf, there are times when you hit a ball so perfectly that you never feel the ball leave your club.

I first learned about kicking under pressure in 1996, my rookie year with the Patriots. I was signed as a free agent by a team that already had Matt Bahr, one of the best kickers around. To win the job, I had to show coach Bill Parcells that I could make kicks when they counted. That process started in training camp.

Coach Parcells challenged me a lot in my rookie year, and not just in games. Almost every day in practice, he'd stand right beside me as he called for the field-goal team to take the field.

I don't know if I'm a clutch hunter, but I'm an avid one.

Living in Indy, you have to be a race fan.

I suppose any person who's played somewhere for a certain amount of time and then has the opportunity to go back and just reminisce a little bit, maybe it holds a different feeling than some of the other places.

As kickers, it's all about being able to block out the crowd noise, being able to block out certain aspects of the game, and just do your job no matter what the circumstances are.