Born on September 29th

"I am so tired of ruggedly handsome heroes. I don't know too many ruggedly handsome people who are necessarily nice people. In fact, the beautiful people have a big handicap because they rely too much on their appearance and don't bother to become interesting."

"I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter."

"I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way."

"I've been reading ghost stories ever since I could read. I'm immensely curious about ghosts and UFOs and all that stuff, but I'm a very hard-headed person."

"I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read."

"Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas - an idea a page."

"Sometimes the characters develop almost without your knowing it. You find them doing things you hadn't planned on, and then I have to go back to page 42 and fix things. I'm not recommending it as a way to write. It's very sloppy, but it works for me."

"Be real with yourself in whatever area of your life and your game that you need improvement on. Once you figure that out, you just have to go out and work on it. For me, it's footwork. I constantly work on it, and it's a never-ending process."

"I hope I can be as good of a father to my son as my dad was to me."

"I have always been like this. I take after my father. I'm just chill."

"I'm just a worker."

"If you feel like you've got a concussion, if you don't know, if you take the test whatever, if you feel like you've got a concussion, the biggest thing is rest, man. Cause you usually compound your injury so much if you go back out there, and we all know that now."

"We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league."

"That's what everybody calls me, 'Cheat Code,' because they just throw the ball up to me."

"Some days I wouldn't even go to class. I'd sit in the room and play video games with my friends and eat powdered mashed potatoes."

"I gotta go through, like, a little routine when I wake up in the morning to get everything functioning and ready to go. But, the only thing is everything just goes back to gridlock so fast once I sit down, 'cause you know you go to work again."

"For me, to just have my own shoe is unbelievable. As a kid, you see Jordans and wonder what that feels like to have your own shoe, and the fact that I have one is really surreal."

"I'm a Southern guy, so Jeezy, T.I., and Outkast are always playing on my iPod."

"I was a baseball guy. Mom wouldn't let me play football when I was little because she was scared I'd get hurt. So, I finally convinced her to let me play in 7th grade."

"It wasn't really until the 10th or 11th grade when I started to play well, and football took the place of baseball, which was my love when I was five years old. I don't know what happened; baseball just got boring to me, I guess."

"I have my own people that make my clothes because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits."

"I like to dress up every now and then."

"I've been a Madden guy since I was little."

"As NFL players, we have such a platform to spread the Word of God. And that is an area I don't mind speaking out on at all. As far as talking about my football skills, however, I will let my abilities and actions speak for themselves."

"I don't feel like sitting around doing nothing would benefit me."

"You know what's funny? There's times when you catch a ball and really didn't even see that ball. You're like, 'That couldn't have been all me.'"

"If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore."

"I know where my body's at, know how it feels, you know."

"Concussions happen. If not on every play, then they happen like every other, every third play, you know."

"It's simple to get a concussion, you know. I don't know how many I've had over my career, you know, but I've definitely had my fair share."