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There are a lot of good football players in the league. You just try to keep yourself grounded.

I want to be great, I want to be mentioned with the best to ever play the game.

Yeah, I think about the Hall of Fame.

At the end of the day you never know what team still wants what player. You just never know with the draft.

I fell like I'm a well-rounded football player.

I feel I can rush the passer well. I feel like I can play the run even better than what I did starting off to when I got in my senior year as far as making plays in the backfield and just being able to break down film a lot better.

I've got family, people that really care and want to see me succeed and push me.

Pittsburgh's home. This is where it all started. This is always going to be home. I always have to get back to Pittsburgh and get some work done.

Obviously you've got God-given talent to do things that a lot of people can't do but I actually put the body of work in to get stronger, get faster, trying to work on my technique, trying to do little things that people usually don't do, just trying to improve my game.

That's my main goal: to win a world championship.

If you play against a Peyton Manning, that's a great quarterback, but I'd rather have that quarterback that stays still. You have a better chance of getting to him. The mobile quarterbacks, they do a lot of different stuff.

The more experience you got the more things you are able to go through, and the ups and downs through a season that you had I don't think it can do anything but make you that much better.

Experience is everything in this league.

All I can do is do my part and keep trying to open up eyes with what I did on the football field, what I did in my career. Just go out there and try to compete and shock a couple more people.

I love L.A., but Pittsburgh just is home. This is what I know. This is where I was born and raised. This is what molded me to make me who I am.

I'm a competitor; I like to try to be the best at everything I do.

It's definitely tough on the pass rushers when they say you're taking a quarterback down and you fall on top of them and it's roughing the passer. Ain't really much you can say, it's just tough.

You've got to have positives and negatives about you. I think that's a good negative, that the only thing they could say about me is my size.

It's always good to show that what you're doing is who you are, what you see on film in the regular season is what you're seeing at the Senior Bowl.

I love going to conventions, and I love spending time with the fans and going to parts of the world where I wouldn't normally go.

I don't like shows that are predictable. I like it when you're shocked and you have no idea who's about to die.

I would be the worst acting coach ever, because I have no idea what I'm doing.

I grew up playing hockey and some football, and I always think about the first time you walk into the locker room on a new team. The cliques are looking at you funny, and you make one friend, but then they're trying to stab you in the back.

I do miss 'Battlestar', the cast and crew. That was a pretty well-oiled machine. It's sort of like you don't know what you've got till it's gone. But I go to a lot of sci-fi conventions, and I love going and talking about the show.

My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.