Within football, there is a lot of trash talk, a lot of stuff that's not been made aware to everybody.
You need to be competitive, but a lot of that you can internalize and use that as motivation to drive you. You do not need to show it all the time.
I'm confident I can show exactly what I'm about, how much I care about football, and how I'd do anything to win.
I used to have the mindset of worrying about everybody else's opinions, trying to please everybody, but that's not going to happen.
I was confident in my ability. It's why I decided to walk on to a bigger school, in the Big 12: because I was confident in myself.
I can listen to all the people patting me on the back, or I can listen to the people saying I need to get better. I know I need to get better, or else there would be nobody saying that.
You can focus on the few things that give people a negative image about me, or you can see the other things I've done, or talk to people in my inner circle who know more about who I really am.