Quotes

None of us should assume stuff.

Every once in a while you do have a bad day.

I don't know if I'm a clutch hunter, but I'm an avid one.

If you do something enough with purpose long enough, you're eventually going to get really good at it.

I've played with some of the best that have ever played, obviously. I don't know if there is anybody that is a better technician than Peyton Manning. Tom Brady is another quarterback that I was fortunate enough to play with for a bunch of years.

I was born with a shotgun in my hand, chasing pheasant through the cornfields. My dad probably started taking me out when I was 4, 5 or 6 years old.

The older you get, the more difficult it is to keep your body right.

Coming from a small South Dakota school, it was a different route to get to the NFL. I went from South Dakota State to the World League of American Football with the Amsterdam Admirals, and fortunately I did well enough there that the New England Patriots decided to sign me and give me a chance.

Kansas City might be the loudest stadium that I've played in.

I think the thing is that kickers are getting better.

I love the Irsay family, but I understand this is a business.

I don't think any of us are above the ability to change football from what it is.

I feel that as long as I'm an asset and not a liability I'm still loving the game as much as I ever have.

Obviously this all-time leading scorer thing I knew was out there and I thought, 'Man, if I stay healthy, I would like to reach that goal.'

Ask a receiver, can we take his gloves off because he's catching the ball too well? Nobody is going to be overly happy about that.

Sometimes we all need a little time to decompress and think about stuff.

I'm always my worst critic.

The only number I care about is the scoreboard.

Will it make the game safer for people by moving the extra point back to a 43-yarder? If anything, players are going to rush harder because they're thinking, 'That far of a field goal-type try, we have to go after blocking it more.'

If you want to talk about potential risk, more guys get injured on a field goal than extra point.

To be able to play a couple of decades, I never thought I'd play that long.

I've always been a very opinionated guy, an outgoing personality.

I'm not a quitter.

I like my smart-aleck self.

There's a brotherhood with the specialists. There's not many of them and we don't get any respect, so we have to show a little respect for each other. We have to help each other out if we have the opportunity.