I'll always love the city of Chicago.

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'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.

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

Sometimes you get looked at harder than other people. I can take the criticism and I can take the heat.

That's my thing. Pass rusher, yeah, you can call me a pass rusher.

Sometimes you have to protect players from themselves.

There comes a time when you can't play as much.

People change teams all the time. People might not go from Green Bay to Chicago or from Chicago to Green Bay all the time, but people change teams all the time.

A guy like Drew Brees is a guy that knows how to undress a defense. Most of the time he knows where he's gonna go before he even gets the ball. So he's ready to deliver that ball almost as soon as it comes to his hands.

I got booed a lot of places.

When you get into the game, you're trying to win games. So you want your best players out there.

You think about it sometimes. I try not to think about it too much. You think about you can't play forever.

I don't know too many pass rushers playing at 40.

Basically, if I decide to retire I don't want it to be one of those situations where, you know, after a couple of months I have the itch to play again. That's not something I want to do. I want to put a lot of thought into it and make the final decision. I don't want to waver on it at all.

As a pass-rusher, 100 sacks is a big milestone. My 100th sack was on Joe Webb.

If my play is not to run and chase the ball, if my play is to stay backside, then I've got to stay backside. I've got to be disciplined. I can't run across the field and chase stuff that's not mine.

You know, I think sometimes certain players - and I don't name names - but certain players have a certain haircut, they have certain sack celebrations. They draw a lot of attention to themselves.

I'm not above criticism.

I was never focused on winning individual awards. I just tried to help the team out and do all that I could do.

Every game, well most of them, come down to turnovers and the turnover battle.

You need a certain type of balance in life and I know where to put football in its proper place. But my love for the game, I have it just like everybody else. If you don't, you're going to get yourself hurt out there.

I love the game just as much as anybody else. But at the same time, I also understand that life is more than football, too. People might get that misconstrued sometimes, too, that I don't care because I'm not die-hard football, eat, sleep and drink it all day and all night.

I never felt like my effort was a problem.