If you're willing to put yourself and your dreams on the line, at the very least you'll discover an inner strength you may not have known existed.
I am where I am because I believed and I never gave up.
Whether I'm a Super Bowl Champion or a regular guy stocking groceries at the Hy-Vee, sharing my faith and glorifying Jesus is the central focus of my time on this earth.
When you speak and represent the person of Jesus Christ in all actions of your life, people are drawn to that. You set the standard with your actions. The words can come after.
I believe that the Lord has a plan for each of us that's better than anything we can imagine, even if that plan isn't obvious to us at every stage. He prepared me for this over a long period of time - in lower-profile locker rooms and the grocery store and in Europe, through all the personal tragedies and in spite of the people who doubted me along the way.
No matter what happens on the football field it doesn't change the kind of person I am.
I wish I could say someone taught me my mental toughness, it would have been a lot less painful.
I expected to play well, I expected to lead my team, and I expected to win.
The bottom line is about the technique. The little things. Fine-tuning what we have to do. No matter who is out there, maybe theyre not going to be as good, quote-unquote, as the starters may be, but the bottom line for us is to make sure were doing the right things.
I've always known that if I got the right opportunity and the right system, I could be successful.
On the football field I keep my emotions tied up inside. But when I'm with family, I let them out.
I am glad that I was given the chance. I knew I could still play at a high level.
It's a group of guys that put their mind to going out and playing great football. Everybody that needed to step up, stepped up. Everybody that needed to make a play, made a play and that's what it's all about.
It changed my life in an extreme way. I dont know if you could calculate just how much it does [change your life]. There was so much notoriety for me in my first season, and to finish by winning the Super Bowl and get the MVP set my place in history. It cements it and its very special. There is something that comes with it, something everyone recognizes and knows. No one can ever take it away from you.
It's much easier when your team's winning. When your team starts to lose, that's where a lot of these quarterback controversies divide a locker room. The key, as a pro, is to be a pro.
I just always felt I'd be playing football in the NFL - or at least playing for a living.
Nobody knew who I was.
My friends said, 'You're crazy, enjoy single life.' But that's not for me.
I’m concerned that if one of those two areas doesn’t play up to par – if they give up some points or they can’t run the football – and it gets stuck on Russell Wilson’s shoulders…if he has to stay in the pocket against good defenses, read coverages, make the right plays, see the field, that’s where I worry.
I've done it for a long time and I didn't expect it to be any different here.
I think there was always that question mark of why am I not in St. Louis anymore? I think everybody had those questions and probably had those perceptions of me.
LeSean McCoy has become the most exciting player in the National Football League. I believe he’s the MVP this year.
As long as you know what you are doing and how to anticipate and throw, I don't think you need all that much physically.
Alex Smith, what he’s done over the last two years for this football team, this is a mistake in not starting him. He needs to be the guy and it’s going to be tough if (Colin) Kaepernick doesn’t play well today and now you’re coming back saying, ‘Alex, we’re going to put you back in there.’
I've always had confidence.
