Wisdom worth sharing, words worth remembering.
I stepped away to find out more about myself which I was having difficulty doing as a football player. I got a chance to travel the world. I studied Eastern philosophy and I've grown as a person so much.
Anytime you play a team sport the success of the team really makes everything better. It's nice.
Sometimes success will get in the way of maturity – at least temporarily.
There's more to life than success and if you can try to be more well-rounded you'll be able to enjoy your success more. It won't own you or control you.
I want to thank all my fans teammates coaches and supporters for the strength they've given me to overcome so much.
I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'
I think sometimes when it comes to sports and especially relationships between players and coaches that people lose track lose a sense of reality.
And I think if you look at any relationship for the relationship to be productive and to move forward and to grow sometimes things have to be said that one person or the other person is not going to like to hear.
I don't think I'll ever be able to stay in one place for more than a year or two. It's not in my nature.
I started practicing yoga. I started learning some hands-on healing stuff. And I found really good chiropractors really good massage therapists and what I found is I've been able to actually peel off layers of trauma on my body and actually move better now than I did.
I would drive home and see people wearing my No. 34 jersey and wonder why because I didn't feel worthy of that. And all the time I just knew people were staring at me talking about me everywhere I went.
Texas was such a welcoming place and with its unbelievable history and tradition it's extra special to be a part of that.
