I was hoping I was going to be back as soon as possible. Then they told me, before I got the MRI results back, that they thought it was an ACL tear and I would be out six months. I was pretty stoked when I found out it wasn`t my ACL. I worked as hard as I could to get back.
The principle is competing against yourself. It`s about self improvement, about being better than you were the day before.
He brought everything to the pinnacle,
There will be a massive jump for Mike this season,
There`s no way I would fill up our cars with gas once a week any more. We`re not using a full tank of gas even once a month.
When you`re an elite athlete, it`s a very special moment in time and you don`t want it to end.
It`ll come. When it does, that`s when he`ll be doubly dangerous.
He`s going to be there, and he`s going to be open,
But Mike is a straight shooter, and this is probably as good of a situation as it could be. This is one of the rational, reasonable ways you would think it would have to come to an end.
I think if somebody would give him the opportunity today to be a top-three receiver on a team, he`d still be playing.