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As an older lineman, if you start to sit around, you get stiff. You get tired. Things start to set in.
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As long as I'm here living and breathing, I'm going to be moving.
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I love Cincinnati, and I want to be there.
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At the end of the day, who you are as a man is more important than who you are as a football player.
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If you're a true warrior, competition doesn't scare you. It makes you better.
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You see some of these guys that lead in sacks every year, but they only play on third down or only play in certain situations.
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The bottom line is the best way to lead is to play well.
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As I say, 'Every tackle's nightmare is third and long.'
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Every team, in some sense, plays dirty. The game of football is dirty.
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I want the young guys to say, 'How old is this guy that's blocking me every play?'
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Being a mentor and a leader, I've always urged guys, if you're ever allowed to be a free agent, to take advantage of that opportunity.
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I love challenges.
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I love opportunities to do something I'm not supposed to be able to do. Hell, that's my career.
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If you went and found my draft bio, I wasn't supposed to play left tackle, and I sure as hell wasn't supposed to play it for 12 years.
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Joey Porter is not one of the people I have respect for. His unprofessionalism is ridiculous.
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I feel like what's made me the player I am is always being willing to take the challenge.
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There's a lot of veteran players that, honestly, being comfortable where they play is more important. And that's just not me.
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Most tall golfers don't have a lot of success. You have trouble getting steep on the ball too much. Stance, posture, all those things can be bad.
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I'm a technician. It's like that in football and the same way in golf. I want to try to find a way that I can swing the club properly. Over the years, it's getting better and better.
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Leadership is a position where you want to create the opportunity to inspire people to walk along beside you, not listen to what you say.
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It's our country. I have a lot of pride in it and the flag and what that's about and all the people who fought for it.
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Freedom is a part of protest as well.
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People fought hard for freedoms; they didn't fight hard for one mentality. If you really talk about what the country was founded on and what those people are protecting who went to war and fought these wars and give us our freedoms and are fighting for our freedoms, I think you have to really ask yourself what is involved in freedom.
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I think the way to maximize not just your leadership but your ability to influence your team is whatever you can do that helps the team perform at a really high level.
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I've always been known for speeding up the tempo. To me, that's just the way you play the game - aggressive. There's no time to rest. You rest on the sidelines.
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No matter what job you have, you're in control of your attitude. That, to me, is my biggest focus every day - being on the energy bus.
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When you get into these NFL rushers - the power, the speed, the bull rush, and all those kind of things - it's just different than college football.
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Leadership, to me, is about the ability to have people want to hear what you have to say. People want to be around you, people want to believe in what you tell them, and they feel good when they walk away from you about who they are and what they're doing.
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My mentality is always to seek perfection, and you'll find that if you can get somewhere close to it or in the vicinity of that, that's good.
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You learn the most by listening and so, to me, always just listening, always just paying attention and finding out what it is that people see in somebody like them. You find those things, and you try to figure out how to fit them into who you are, who you want to be, and how you want to lead.
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