It's frustrating, because I know I can help this team, help us stop the run. But coach is doing what he thinks is best and you have to respect him for that. He wants to wait until I'm 100 percent.

There were a lot of things we did over the summer to help us recover, ... It's good to be together playing football, but it's not about recovery. We'll be dealing with that for a long time and continuing to heal.

The healthy, the strong individual, is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an abscess on his knee or in his soul.

You can't predict when people are going to die. You have to be here to help the families, not just to bury them, but the surviving family members come up to decorate graves and have questions about where people are buried ? you gotta be here.

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No, from the standpoint that the coaches didn't feel I was ready yet,