If we would’ve been a contender, it would have been harder to let go.
When you wake up in the morning, you can’t walk. You know, you’re shufflin’ across the floor. … I gotta go through, like, a little routine when I wake up in the morning to get everything functioning and ready to go. But, the only thing is everything just goes back to gridlock so fast once I sit down, ’cause you know you go to work again.
It’s clear to see when you get a concussion. In football, it’s—concussions happen, if not on every play, then they happen like every other, every third play, you know. With all the helmet contact, guys hittin’ the ground, heads hittin’ ground. It’s simply when your brain touches your skull from the movement or the inertia, man. It’s simple to get a concussion, you know. … I don’t know how many I’ve had over my career, you know, but I’ve definitely had my fair share.
Medications I took for pain while I was playin’ were simply just to cease the pain … and so you could do your job more effectively. And, whether it be Toradol, Tylenol, T3s —you know, gettin’ cortisol shots, things like that. You know, those are the main things that I did, or that I took.