The early influences, in many ways, were in Baltimore. I was passing open windows where there might be a radio playing something funky. In the summertime, sometimes there'd be a man sitting on a step, playing an acoustic guitar, playing some kind of folk blues. The seed had been planted.
“You have different sorts of people in life, so why should it be any different in football?”
“I take all of my life lessons, which some people might call 'mistakes,' and apply them to my future so that I keep growing.”