“A quarterback is always going to be the most valuable player on a football field because he touches the ball every single offensive play.”

“A reputation takes years and years and years to build, and it takes one press of a button to ruin it. Don't let that happen to you. You've done so much work; you've put in so much effort. Don't let one moment ruin your entire life because you wanted to be funny or you were mad or because you had a mood.”

“As long as I've known music, Bose has been the company to listen to. They're a lot of fun to work with, but also being able to associate yourself with such a high-quality product is great.”

“Basically, I want that relationship where we have that love. I love her so much, and she loves me so much that it's just - you want that relationship where you look into the girl's eyes, and you know that she's everything you've ever wanted. When I find that, I'm going to get it!”

“Each year, I write out a goal sheet with what I expect. If I showed anybody else my goal sheet, they would have said I was crazy.”

“Every year, I take 10 of my best friends from high school on a trip. That's kind of my way for saying thanks to them for being so loyal, for keeping me honest, and for just being great friends throughout this craziness.”

“Everybody has a job to do, and you just know that every day you have to do what it takes to get there. Of course, everybody has those days where you don't feel like doing it. I'm just like anybody else in that respect. But there's a difference between not feeling like doing it and not doing it period.”

“Growing up, you'd see Michael Jordan on everything from Gatorade to shoes - everything. Obviously, that's something pretty cool for an athlete to aspire to.”

“Hockey, honestly, was my first love. The excitement, the fast pace, the intensity of the game... I still love it to this day.”

“I actually have no style whatsoever. I'm the worst. I have people I talk to, and I say, 'Please tell me how to dress because I don't know what I'm doing.' The biggest thing for me is my mom. I'm like, 'Mom, do I look good?' If she says yes, I'm good to go.”

“I ate a whole 20-inch pizza by myself one time.”

“I don't get bothered by fans.”

“I eat two breakfasts, two lunches, and two dinners throughout the day. It's always eating.”

“I feel like, growing up, I watched football, obviously, and you see great players, and as a fan, you want to watch the best you can possibly watch, and you want to see what's capable of being made.”

“I get a lot of letters that say, 'I'm a normal, down-to-earth girl. I love to cook, and I love sports.' What I also get are letters from a whole bunch of moms saying, 'My daughter is awesome,' and, 'My daughter is a great daughter.'”

“I Googled 'What do rich people buy?' Because I don't feel like a rich person, and I don't really try to act like a rich person, so I don't know what they buy. I didn't really like the stuff I saw, so I'm gonna stick with my humble lifestyle and just keep working out.”

“I grew up in Wisconsin loving hockey. I mean, I started when I was three years old on skates.”

“I have no idea when it's going to be, when I'll retire.”

“I have three Defensive Players of the Year. Only one other player has done that. But being a defensive lineman, it's hard to control the game.”

“I just go out there every game and try to be the best I can be for our team.”

“I know I'm going to be remembered for football. That's why I work so hard at it.”

“I know that I'm going out there, and I know that I am going to get hit in the head. I know that's part of football. That's like a firefighter knowing he is going to go into a fire at some point. You know you are going to be put in danger's way, and you accept that risk, and you do it.”

“I live with the fact that while I am playing, I am going to give everything I have, and I will live with those consequences.”

“I love brunch. Brunch is my favorite meal.”

“I never want to let a day go by without having done something to get a little better.”

“I respect every guy that has walked away. I think every single guy in this league makes his own decision, and that's perfectly fine. The reason I respect that and the reason I think every guy has his own way of dealing with things is because, in my personal opinion, I know what I'm getting into.”

“I think there are definitely some people that would say I'm crazy.”

“I want a girl who's passionate, driven - a girl who believes in herself.”

“I want to be the defensive player to break the MVP barrier. I want to break barriers. I want to do things when people tell me I can't.”

“I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.”

“I want to go out and chase greatness. That's all I want to do.”

“I was impressionable at that age, and my high school coach did such an unbelievable job helping me, so I want to do that for other kids.”

“If there's ever any point in my life where I could meet Jennifer Aniston, I think that'd be pretty incredible!”

“If you don't have that vision for the end goal, you have no clue where you're going, and you're going to work very hard to go nowhere.”

“If you want to be remembered as great, if you want to be a legend, you have to go out there every single day and do stuff.”

“If you're an outsider looking into my life, you're thinking, 'That dude is crazy. He's literally crazy.'”

“If you're thinking like that - 'Does this person want me for me?' - then you're gonna have a hell of a hard time falling in love, 'cause you're constantly thinking about what they look like on paper.”

“I'll fight a bear, but I don't like spiders. I'm not a fan of those.”

“I'm a kid who grew up working hard.”

“I'm a Wisconsin kid, so I like brats and burgers and stuff like that. Cheese curds.”

“I'm always trying to learn and grow, so my diet has, over the years, evolved.”

“I'm going to continue to work to be the best player in the world, and whenever that doesn't sound fun to me anymore, that's when it's over.”

“I'm honestly all over the board. I think if I had to pick one, I'd probably say it's country first, but I listen to literally everything: country, pop, rock, rap.”

“I'm not ashamed of it, but people would think I'm ashamed of Bieber. I got Bieber on my iPod.”

“I'm not strict on my calorie count; I just pay attention to my body.”

“I'm sure I frustrate the trainers - in fact, I know I frustrate the trainers to no end. But I think there's a very fine line. I listen to their advice. I take their medical expertise very seriously. But then I also, the reason I am where I am, the reason I play the way I play, is because I push beyond normal.”

“In the off-season, I train twice a day, five times a week with my trainer. Then, there's always massages and neuromuscular therapy worked in there as well on different days.”

“It may not matter to anybody now, but when you go out there and perform on the field, that's what matters.”

“It sounds weird when you complain about having to eat so much, but it's like a job.”

“It's a very violent game, and bodies take a beating, so you want to make sure you do everything you can to get your body back. It's just something you have to do.”

“It's hard to understand the life that I live and rationalize some of the things that I do. I don't need someone questioning every move that I make, asking me why I don't just relax. When there's no one asking me those types of questions... to me, it's peaceful.”

“It's literally, if I'm not working out, I eat the whole time I'm not working out. It's exhausting. You have to force-feed. You have to force yourself to eat food.”

“My cheat meals aren't even that exciting.”

“My dad's a firefighter, so I know what it's like for policemen and firefighters to be on their own on Christmas Day.”

“My goal is I want to create the 20-20-20 club: 20 sacks, 20 tackles for loss, 20 batted balls.”

“My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something that I knew, if I made the NFL, I would financially have the ability to do.”

“My schedule is so crazy.”

“My whole life, I've been trying to make people proud.”

“No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short turnaround.”

“Obviously, you get to do a lot of great things and cool opportunities at the Super Bowl. But at the end of the day, we all want to be here as a player. That's the goal, and that's why I work so dang hard.”

“Over the years, I've learned a lot about nutrition and about myself, so it's a lot more based on feel. I stopped putting a number on it because people were analyzing it too much.”

“Part of me wants nothing to do with any Hollywood. But another part of me wants to go there. I feel like I could be successful at it.”

“People play with pain all the time.”

“Read each tweet about 95 times before you send it. Look at every Instagram post about 95 times before you send it.”

“Since my sophomore year in high school, I knew I didn't want to do anything but be a professional athlete. I knew when I got to college there was no way anybody was going to stop me from being an NFL player.”

“Teams are always hitting me in the gut, trying to grab me when I jump and stuff like that. But I expect it.”

“The one thing I know is, if I play good ball, things have tended to come along with it. Everything that I've ever done in my career has come off of playing good football. And so I realize I need to go out there, and I need to take care of my business; then everything else - all these cool, great things - come along with it.”

“The way I look at it is that somebody in the world, no matter what your field is - teacher, violinist, football player - has to be the best. Why not me?”

“There are games where I go a whole game without saying a word. There are games where I'm talking the whole game. It really depends on the mood and vibe that I'm in that day.”

“There's plenty of days when I don't want to eat chicken breast and broccoli and rice, but I know what I have to do, and I know the sacrifice I have to make.”

“Trust me, I would love to have a wife and kids. I would very much enjoy that. But I also know that you have to be in the right place to do that.”

“What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends.”

“When budget cuts happen - which has been happening a lot in this country - after-school athletics and after-school music are some of the first things to go.”

“When I picture myself after football, it's down home, coaching high school football, just a relaxing, normal life.”

“When it comes down to that moment, when it's me against you, you know in your head whether you worked hard enough. You can try to lie to yourself. You can try to tell yourself that you put in the time. But you know - and so do I.”

“You can find just about everything on my iPod from Eminem to Zac Brown to Justin Timberlake to One Direction. Everything is on there.”

“You don't know who wants you for you, who wants you for the money, who wants you for the fame. You have no idea. And how would you know? There's no way.”

“You have to find the right situation, and you have to be in that right mindset where you can give everything you have to that. Because whatever I do, I want to be the best at. I want to be the best husband. I want to be the best father.”