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I have donated money to the kids overseas, the open hand project and the homeless.
Everything that I have done that the media sees as an obstacle, I have over come it.
Off the field I'm down to earth. I'm a very caring person. I'm a very giving person.
You have not seen my face go across the screen for any off the field problems, period.
I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports.
People have doubted me and criticized me my whole life, and that's why I'm the way I am.
I feel like with me being a big part of any offense, then the numbers are going to come.
I left a lot - a lot - of touchdowns on the field throughout the last two or three years.
Like my boy tells me; if it looks like a rat and smells like a rat, by golly, it is a rat.
There has to be a beginning somewhere and my thing is that I am going to give it all I got.
Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.
I wrote the book not to prove people wrong but just to get the insight on who I am as a person.
Ill watch the highlights every now and then but, as far as watching the game, I feel like I am the game.
A lot of people think I'm stuck up. Pretty much that I'm arrogant. I only do that when I'm on the field.
Don't say I don't get along with my teammates. I just don't get along with some of the guys on the team.
I wanted a NBA basketball gym at my house and that's what I worked hard for and I was able to achieve that.
Say I had been with a guy like Tom Brady, Peyton Manning or Drew Brees all of my career. Are you kidding me?
I would not have gone to Philly if I really did not have my free agency right, if I did not have a case, period.
Like I have said all along, I have the best doctor of all, and that is God. You can't argue with a guy like that.
I think people change, but the media, they never allowed me to change. They never allowed me to be a better person
Like I always said, if I'm one of the top players in the game, pay me like I'm one of the top players in the game.
I feel like I know it is from my heart and God knows it is for a good cause, it is not necessary to be made public.
I think people change, but the media, they never allowed me to change. They never allowed me to be a better person.
I didn't know who my daddy was until I was 10 or 12. Surprising as it may seem, he was living right across the street.
That goes with the saying that you call on God a lot of times and you pray for things and it may not happen at that moment.
Some people are too prideful to go out and reach out to people to help them in that situation because it's just such a dark time.
I may be a public figure, but really, I'm just like a guy who could be in your family and have some difficult things happen to him.
It doesn't matter what people say about me, whether they're in Philly, or whether they're in San Francisco... all across the world.
A lot of people expect to see the same type of character that they see on the field off the field, and that throws them for a loop.
I am sure I lost out on a few million or more in money but I am happy with the team that I am on and the quarterback that I am with.
You never know what a person is going through, regardless of how much money they make or however great a life you think they're living.
I think at some point during the course of the game, I will have an impact - whether it's blocking or whether it's catching the football.
As you get to know me, you kind of figure me out, that I'm not as probably as bad of a guy that I've been reported to be. I'm not that jerk.
There are things players go through on an everyday basis in the business of football. You don't see it all with the glitz and glamour of game day.
I've always been pretty much a quiet person. When I was little, I got picked on a lot. After I went through all that, I pretty much kept to myself.
I may not say it all the time or I may not pray as much as I need to, but I am not forgetting where I came from and how I got to be where I am today.
I have done a lot of things off the field but I feel like in my heart I dont really have to publicize what I do for people because it is from my heart.
Once I step on the field, by the things I do in practice and the way I practice, you can't tell that I don't love the game. But I just know it deep down.
I feel like it was a little disrespectful but you know what I feel like, I have been successful, blessed and I keep my faith in God, man, and I just keep it moving.
When I was a kid, I'd watch pro football on TV and I'd see someone make a play and I'd say, 'I wish that could be me.' But then I'd have to wonder, 'Could I make that big play?'
I know the microphones and cameras are on me. They're looking at my gestures and taking it and running with it because of things that have happened in the past. It's very unfair.
I've never really thought of myself as having an ego. I've always found myself as having a lot of confidence. I know I have a lot of great ability. I know what I bring to the table.
I've sustained a meniscus injury, shortly after that I sustained an ACL injury so really just going through that and going through some personal issues, personal problems within myself.
Jerry (Rice) played until he was 42. At 39, I ran a 4.43 40-yard dash. You look at the number of dropped balls and the way guys are playing now and you can't honestly say I can't do better.
But if you look at the big scheme of things, I have never failed, regardless of anything I have had to go through: from Dallas, to the sharpie, to me getting involved with a debate with my coach, a lot of people look to see my fail.
A lot of emotional stress that people go through, some people figure out a way to handle it. They have a strong enough support system to keep going and keep moving forward. And some people, they feel like they don't have that outlet.
People forget that I'm a human being, just because I play a sport that everybody loves. We're human. We're not invincible. We share the same feelings and emotions that people on the outside feel. I don't think people really understand that.
This is a dirty business, that is why I go out and play with my heart. I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports. This is like a nine to five. No guaranteed contracts, and that is the worst thing about it.
You have a white guy as an announcer and sportscaster. Me, I'm black. I do it and I've already done some stuff in the past. We're more expressive than the white guys. You look at the skill players. We're the ones that get into the end zone. We get in the end zone more than they do.
I'm smart enough to know when I've done something wrong, but I don't understand this. Guys are beating their wives, getting DUIs and doing drugs, and I get national attention for a Sharpie? People are personally attacking me, calling me a classless asshole because I did something creative during a game. Why?