I've played a lot of football in my life. I know the tempo and speed of the game.
As football players, our bodies know exactly what time of year it is and what we need to be doing.
There is a way to practice hard and be physical without pads. You can still be a physical football team and be efficient in practice without pads. The 49ers practiced like that for a long period of time in the 1980s under Bill Walsh and were extremely successful when all the other teams were practicing in pads.
We are making a little portion of their brains be sprinters; they are 100 percent football players, but for these purposes, they must learn the proper way to run.
I don't feel like anybody can be in top-notch football shape when you first get out there, and that's what training camp is for, and that's why it's a long process.
It's difficult when you start to play football. My boots were much worse.
This is football; everyone gets hurt. If you run the ball 40 times a game, you're going to get banged around and get nicks and bruises here and there, but I don't pay too much attention to that.
You would never train people to play football by telling them to watch football. You make them play football.
Any football player will tell you that in July you get this dark cloud over you if you know camp's coming.
