I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.

I didn't go to university. I didn't go to culinary school, barely made it through high school.

My rookie year was huge for me as far as the learning curve, especially those last three games.

Dallas was a place where dreamers like my father were given a chance.

If a player digests his own statistical information in his own time, on his own laptop, tablet or whatever, without a coach standing over him, it makes it easier for him. It helps with the pressure. There's a fear factor but spending time at home analysing things can help control it.

Sometimes that kind of last-ditch tackle can get the crowd excited, and you get a push from that. It's important to play with that psychological side of the game, but it depends on the quality of the player.

From a personal point of view, you want to be playing in every game, but when you have to cope with the heat, the artificial surfaces, injuries, and tactics based around the coach's selection, you can't do it all.

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

So for me, it's just continue to go out and work hard and do what I've been coached and let the other guys take advantage of what they do successfully and then just let the chips fall where they may.

You're not always happy with things that go on in life on a daily basis. There's nothing I can do. You've got to deal with it and still take care of myself.

When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.