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I'm upset when I miss.
I prefer New York style pizza.
One thing I'll never do is panic.
Any time I screw up I feel bad about it.
I really enjoy charity work and helping people.
In athletics, I've gone through ups and downs my whole life.
There's multitudes of factors of why a kick can go in or not.
There might not be kicking in the NFL by the time I get to 45.
I threw a good fastball and changeup, but a below-average curveball.
I'm not really into reality shows. 'Nip Tuck' is my favorite TV show.
I bleed blue. I love being a Tiger and love being back here in Memphis.
Once you get a couple good plays, you get confidence and it carries over.
It stinks to play terrible and your team loses. It's like salt on the wound.
When you're in a slump you want to try something else and you get on a roll.
No one puts more pressure on themselves than me as far as an individual thing.
In a sport like baseball, you strike out or get embarrassed, you turn the page.
They don't give you extra points if you make a 50-yarder that goes over the net.
Kicking's kicking. Pressure's pressure. You beat other guys just to get drafted.
When you play in New England you have cold weather, hot weather, windy weather, or snow.
I'm upset when we lose. It doesn't matter if I make 10 60-yarders in one game if we lose.
I've always had confidence when it comes to athletics. It's sometimes stubborn to a fault.
I think my experience playing multiple sports kind of helps deal with a little bit of a bind.
Most kickers and punters and snappers are pretty cordial with each other throughout the year.
Sometimes things just pop up right in front of your face and you have to take advantage of it.
I have a lot of nicknames. In high school and growing up it was Beaver. In college it was Gotti.
I admire every kicker in the NFL. I know how hard it is to be successful on a week-in-week-out basis.
The thing about kicking is, it's not as competitive as other positions, but I feel like I am a competitor.
I've missed before in college and high school. If you miss, you figure out what went wrong and kick the next one.
There's nothing wrong with furthering education and working your brain in a different way than you normally work it.
Any time your team has confidence in you, it's cool, but I don't go back. I haven't watched one Super Bowl that we've played in.
Sometimes if you kick too much, it can work in a negative direction. If you get tired or sore, you might develop some bad habits.
The hardest thing about kicking a kick at the end of the game or end of the half is not letting your excitement get the best of you.
I try to take the mental aspects of every sport that I've ever played and use it toward kicking, how to react in certain situations.
There's only so much you can talk about football. Anytime you can get into a conversation that's not political, it's a welcome change.
To take an hour or two per day while the kids are in school to read really isn't that tough to do once you get into the routine of it.
There's no time in the NFL, especially as a specialist, to pat yourself on the back. It's a week-to-week, game-to-game, kick-to-kick kind of job.
You can miss a kick on a good hold and you can still make kicks with bad holds but the more the operation is perfect, the percentages go up and up.
There's games you try one field goal, and if you miss that one field goal you'll feel like crap for the whole rest of the week... It doesn't do you any good.
I think a pitcher in baseball is the most relatable position to a specialist in football, because you get a limited opportunity to prove your worth to the team.
It's my job to be able to deal with adverse conditions as well as kick well in good conditions. I just look to prepare to go out to do well no matter what it is.
The older you get, you might think you have it all figured out, but you are never too old to work on fundamentals. You can't take anything for granted in this business.
There are times where you're in the zone and everything moves in slow motion, and there's sometimes when everything goes really fast and you have to slow yourself down.
The thing that kept me from going to the next level was, I really didn't have an out-pitch. My story in baseball could have been a lot different if that's all I focused on.
If you're a starting pitcher, the ball's in your hands and all eyes are you. And when you're kicking, either you missed it or you made it. So there's a lot of parallels in that.
A lot of times guys have the tendency to try to kick it too hard or over-kick it. Just like a golf swing, the harder you try to hit it the less chance you have at it going straight.
You'll go down a dark road if you just dwell on every time you screw up. We play a very fickle position. If I make nine kicks out of 10, people are going to talk about the one I missed.
Kicking is a weird thing. You can go stretches and stretches of just doing really good, then you could have one or two kicks that can derail you. You've just got to learn to ride the wave.
I've said this before, any accomplishment that I make will be something that I will look back on when I'm done playing and be excited about and probably brag to my kids and grandkids about.
Kicking is like a love-hate relationship. When it's going good it's really good. When it's bad, it's really tough. You just have to find the fine line between not getting too high or too low.
Obviously kicking is very mental and if you do struggle it is a little harder to go out there with confidence, but the good ones, if they miss they can bounce right back and make the next one.