“My dad means a lot to me. He’s the one who put a football in my hands.”

I dedicate myself and work hard in the weight room and treat every practice as if it were a game.

Then push through it no matter what the outcome is.

He didn’t move a muscle, not one inch, and he didn’t drop one tear. I tell you that and you are probably like, “Wow, how is that even possible?”

I have to continue to be a great leader and contribute in any way that I can, and get guys to follow suit.

I understand that my son loves me and I love him, and everything just really got blown out of proportion, and I’m OK with that.

To me, when you got a 20-year-old running back or 21-year-old receiver that’s just coming out of college and you’re out working these guys.

But I’m still from the country. I love my fried food and my neck bones and all that, too.

I want to win four or five championship rings. That’s how I dream. I dream big.

So it’s a lot of different things that I do. I don’t want to overload the body too much, but when we do the hill, it’s not like workouts.

It’s modern-day slavery.

When I go out on the field, I just put it in my mind that I’m playing for my family.

When I’m out, maybe I’m looking at the fried chicken, but I know I need to order the grilled.

It’s not like I had to throw the football and deal with that as well.

We are human, so we do go through pain and we struggle with things, but it’s all about how you respond to a situation.

But as far as the parenting lesson, no [I understood that]. To me it was so simple, it was a situation where I disciplined my child and it didn’t turn out the way I wanted.

Thankfully, I’m lucky enough to be able to eat ice cream.

It’s like my characters, all my men are Dad and me in a mess; all my female characters are smart and hopeful, like Mom just trying to make the best of things.

Dad had a music store, and he’d often bring home comedy albums that I would listen to. I started listening to Bob Newhart and Bill Cosby, and developing taste. They really influenced my style of comedy.

What’s changed? I’m a dad. That’s fundamental. Watching your kids grow, you go back a bit.

Dad, one of my first memories is of sharing my worry with you about the space shuttle poking holes in the atmosphere and letting out all of Earth’s air.

My dad and my mom had to sacrifice so much, and had to teach us and show us the way of going about things, how to be humble, all those things. They helped us stay on track for what we wanted to do.

My dad was born in Chicago in 1908… his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children – in the backroom all together – and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business.

My dad told me if I was ever intimidated by anyone, just picture them with their clothes off. He said that’s how he dealt with my mom.

My dad’s like, If your mom and I are having sex and we videotape it and she falls out of bed funny, can I win ten-thousand dollars?