“You've got to pay your rookie dues.” — Trent Williams Quote

You've got to pay your rookie dues.

I don't want to put an expiration date on myself, but as long as God blesses me to go line up and play football at a high level, then I'll be playing football.

I don't have my mind set on any accolades. I just want to achieve something as a team.

Every year I fine-tune my training and my preparation to be better.

If you don't have a quarterback, it's tough to win a regular-season game, let alone an NFC Championship.

After I graduated college, I moved to L.A. I started working for the Garry Marshall Theatre in Toluca Lake and did theater at the Hudson Theatre in Santa Monica. I paid my dues by working at every single restaurant in the Grove until they fired me. I worked an overnight shift at the Mondrian Hotel.

I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set.

I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I don't write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues.

I was a prodigy who learned how difficult writing was only after getting published. I paid my dues later.