I pretty much approach every season never thinking about what I accomplished the year before.

I never thought I would see this day. But it's here now and I feel pretty good about it.

So until we meet again, I am thinking of you always; I love you; I wish you were here...in my arms.

I think I just went into a system that was willing to utilize me and gave me opportunities and I felt fortunate to be able to go to Oakland and put the silver and black on. I wanted to prove to everybody that I could still play.

To me it was never about what I accomplished on the football field, it was about the way I played the game.

You know, I never looked down the road and said, 'Hey look, one day, the Hall of Fame.' It's always about playing each and every game 100 percent and I thank my teammates for getting me into the Hall because football is a team sport, not an individual sport.