When you're growing up, you need to stay around people who are headed in the right direction and stay away from people who will take you in the wrong direction.

My mom would always travel with us to everything; my dad introduced us to the weight room and showed us how to properly work out.

I never really grew up watching TV.

Am I ever going to be able to play football again? What's going on with my career? I was just thinking things like that. You've got tears going down your eyes. You've got your trainers right there and my parents right there. I was just thinking, "Is this it?" I didn't know what a knee injury was. I'd never felt pain like that.

You want to hit full strides going into the first game and maintain it.