I want people to know that you can chase your dreams no matter where you are in your life, and it can work out. I know. It happened to me.

I grew up in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, so in Iowa, we didn't have a pro sports team, so it was all about the Hawks, and everybody was a Hawkeyes fan, and everybody had their black and gold and had something Hawkeye related.

I want people to know that you can chase your dreams no matter where you are in your life, and it can work out. I know. It happened to me.

The road to our dreams has many detours.

It's not the way I threw the football - it's not particular games that I won - but that they remember that here's a guy that believed, that worked hard. Although things didn't always go in his favor, he continued to press through, and with his faith in himself and his faith in God, he was able to accomplish great things.