People look at you differently if you wear a bow tie, as opposed to a necktie.
I found out that changing the perception of myself and the NFL, and reestablishing the notion of being a gentleman was important to me.
What better way to get to know a culture than to go there and learn their sports?
Every country I go to, I learn a little bit more about myself.
For my birthday, I would ask for a ticket from my mother. Just buy me a ticket to said country and I'll just find my way through. And that's what I always did. I never changed too much of that.
Just because you wear a bow tie doesn't mean you're a nerd.
Because CoEd's doing incredible work in Guatemala so how can I not #tieoneon?
Football is a sport of paradox. It requires reaction, not reflection. Yet you must use your mind to calculate, to anticipate - to think and not think at the same time.
Without creation, what are we but stalled in life?
Football is one side of me. Art is another. Travel is another.
The most important thing regardless of my stats or anybody else's stats is the win-loss record. In the locker room people are always telling me, you're doing this and that. I don't really pay that much attention so long as we have a 'W' in that column; that's the kind of thing that makes me really happy. It blows all stats out of the water.
I like to do from racing my radio control cars to doing work at the zoo to poems to the TV show. There are a lot of things that I like to involve myself with, but I have a pretty packed schedule nine times out of ten. I have a good sense of working things in at the same time so that I can get all my hobbies in line.
I'm living my future as long as you're living in the present and realize how beautiful life is.
When I'm in the Switzerland backcountry and nobody around looks like me, people were like, 'Can I touch your hair?'
I started rockin' the BowTie when I was a rookie with the New York Giants.
Doing things out of the ordinary - out of the box - like jumping out of airplanes and landing in cities that you've never been to before, then finding your way through. That's the type of trip that excites me.
