I don't want to dog the NFL.

The team needs me out there on the field. And sometimes you allow that to jeopardize yourself, but that's just the nature of the world.

Guys get concussions, they don't tell the coaches. It happens.

I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.

The thing I don't miss is waking up in the morning, hurting, the grind of the game.

I got chronic stuff that everybody has when they're done playing football for any length of time. So the good thing is I'm able to walk. I feel good. I'm able to spend more time with the fam.

I got a finger that's literally bone-on-bone. This bad boy, it gets smaller. The more and more I do, it grinds bone-on-bone.

I got stuff that's going to hurt for the rest of my life.

I'm not coming back to play.

I had fun while I did it, and I left it all out there on the field. I'm tapped out.

The team doctor, the team trainers, they work for the team. And I love 'em, you know. They're some good people, you know. They want to see you do good. But at the same time, they work for the team, you know. They're trying to do whatever they can to get you back on the field and make your team look good.

It's simple to get a concussion, you know. I don't know how many I've had over my career, you know, but I've definitely had my fair share.

Concussions happen. If not on every play, then they happen like every other, every third play, you know.

I know where my body's at, know how it feels, you know.

If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.

You know what's funny? There's times when you catch a ball and really didn't even see that ball. You're like, 'That couldn't have been all me.'

I'm just a worker.

I don't feel like sitting around doing nothing would benefit me.

During the season, I dodge the media, kind of. It's not that I'm trying to avoid them, but I know if they get a hold of me, there's going to be, like, 10 people around me, and I'm going to have to answer question after question, where in that time, after practice, I need to be taking care of my body and recovering.

As NFL players, we have such a platform to spread the Word of God. And that is an area I don't mind speaking out on at all. As far as talking about my football skills, however, I will let my abilities and actions speak for themselves.

I've been a Madden guy since I was little.

That's what everybody calls me, 'Cheat Code,' because they just throw the ball up to me.

I like to dress up every now and then.

I have my own people that make my clothes because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits.