Modest about our national pride - and inordinately proud of our national modesty.
Nobody knew who I was.
If you're willing to put yourself and your dreams on the line, at the very least you'll discover an inner strength you may not have known existed.
I am where I am because I believed and I never gave up.
When you speak and represent the person of Jesus Christ in all actions of your life, people are drawn to that. You set the standard with your actions. The words can come after.
Whether I'm a Super Bowl Champion or a regular guy stocking groceries at the Hy-Vee, sharing my faith and glorifying Jesus is the central focus of my time on this earth.
I believe that the Lord has a plan for each of us that's better than anything we can imagine, even if that plan isn't obvious to us at every stage. He prepared me for this over a long period of time - in lower-profile locker rooms and the grocery store and in Europe, through all the personal tragedies and in spite of the people who doubted me along the way.
The internet is necessarily public. It can be filtered-public or censored-public, but it necessarily has to be open and available.
If you want my goodness to stay with you then serve your neighbor, for that is where God comes to you.
Hope is the virgin of the ideal world, who opens beaten to as in the midst of every tempest.
I think of my father born in this very small, limited situation and then coming out of that. Many people have this story.