Athlete

People hold me accountable. Before I would push people away, but that's not a way to be successful.

The rule is you don't play very long in this league. So you make the most out of it and you have to look at yourself in that fashion.

I had this giant ego of an athlete, but I was self-conscious at everything else.

You don't want to say the money changes you, but it definitely does.

A lot of times people say they want a fresh start, but you can't really have a fresh start because it doesn't happen that way.

Lots of time people have the assumption that I'm making so much money that I don't care.

I was always worried about what others were thinking about me or how I was being perceived.

I was good at two things, athletics and lying.

I know the Chargers made mistakes, but I made a bunch of mistakes myself, and I've got to take responsibility for that.

I spent money on all the wrong things. Private airfare. Things like that.

I had many orthopedic surgeries.

How you deal with things is what matters.

When I retired, I took my money from the financial planner and proceeded to present the front that everything was fine. I had to pretend I still made $5 million a year.

Football is just a game. Everybody takes it so much more seriously than it is, but there are many more important things in my life.

When I came into the NFL, there were three things that were very important to me: money, power and prestige. I was powerful now because I was a famous athlete. I had prestige because I was doing what everybody wanted to do. And I had a lot of money.

Playing in the NFL, it's a privilege, it's not a right.

When I bought my first house I had all these red flags on my credit report because I bounced a bunch of checks to places like Pizza Hut and stuff like that for $13 or $15 because I was trying to feed my O-linemen.

I defy anybody to be of service to another human being and not have the most peaceful night of sleep you've had in a long, long time.

I don't feel bad for myself.

The third game of my career, we played Kansas City and I played as poorly as I've ever played in my life. I completed one of 15 passes and had two interceptions.