I have always been around it (football coaching). It has always interested me.

I made up my mind a month ago to go with football. It is more than athletics. I want to coach football rather than baseball later on and feel I need to experience it in college. I will learn even more, and I learned a lot in high school.

I want to play four years so they won't waste snaps with me. I think it will be the best fit for me.

You really don't throw a football with your arm, per se. You throw with your legs. You have to have good balance and a good base.

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.

There was no question he was one of the dominant football players of the era of the late 1920s and early '30s. We recognized this and, fortunately, the members of the Hall of Fame committee were kind enough to look at the material we put together. Every time I read it, I am proud of what my teammates have done. ... It has come to fruition.