"I want to make an impact."
"I don't care what age I am. If I continue to train and feel good and enjoy the locker room and this organization wants me and I feel I can do it, I'm going to do it, no matter what my age."
"When I'm done, whenever I feel like I'm done, I'm going to come back and retire as a Niner."
"My first year playing Pop Warner football, my mom had to change my birth certificate because I was too young. I was 5, I think, and you were supposed to be 6."
"My first time playing running back in a real game, I had eight touchdowns."
"My neighborhood, Coconut Grove, we always played in the streets. It was corner against corner. We all had football teams. Different neighborhoods."
"You can be talented, but having great talent isn't enough. You have to work every day or someone will pass you up."
"My mom, how she raised me, my brothers, my cousins, when I was a kid with one bedroom for 12 people... You think about all that, and God blessed me to get somewhere and do something I love and do something I've done since I was a kid. And blessed me with the talent to do it."
"When something you love gets taken away, it hurts you."
"If I feel like I can't play ball anymore, I'll stop that day. I'm not a fool. I respect the game too much."
"When you think about retiring, you're done. You already checked out."
"I love when people tell me what I can't do."
"My son going to college is a big milestone."
"My coaches respect me - the way I come to work, practice and play."
"But I look at Anquan Boldin the same. If you watch us, we're similar players. We're not the fastest, we're not the biggest, but we get it done. I think we're just football players."
"Before I got injured, football was very easy, I didn't have to work out."
"As long as I'm healthy and feeling good, I will compete with anybody."
"I train with young guys in the offseason just to be honest and keep myself sure, to let myself know if I'm ready or will I be ready."
"I want to show guys that when they get up in age, if you love the game and you go out and work hard, it shouldn't matter what age you are."
"I've been doubted my whole life, especially coming out of college with the injuries I had."
"People said I would be in the league for two to three years and then I would be done. I have been blessed to keep going, and also have success."
"To be able to be mentioned with guys like Emmitt, Walter Payton, Barry Sanders, Curtis Martin and my man LaDainian Tomlinson, it's a blessing."
"I try my best when I get an opportunity and my number gets called."
"I don't put nothing past no man who ever played the game of football."
"I'm not scared of any man."