The really consistent narrative is the SEC has a ton of NFL football players that get really that practice of playing against other guys that have NFL talent throughout their conference so many weeks of the season — which can’t do anything but really improve your game when you start facing that kind of level of talent.

Andrew Whitworth

I've got two contracts in my life: One with my wife and the other to protect Andy Dalton.

Andrew Whitworth

contracts wife two

I don't think it's a coincidence this happened. God does things for a reason ... It's a good message for back home.

Andrew Whitworth

messages home thinking

I think yoga is like anything else, it's a workout in the sense you are going to get what you put into it.

Andrew Whitworth

yoga workout thinking

A yoga session is harder than a football practice easily for me. Probably in some ways just as intense, not from a physical standpoint of hitting ,but from a game, the intensity is the same.

Andrew Whitworth

yoga practice football

Part of my job being a leader and captain of the team is not just to play well and lead well but find a way to make everybody around me better.

Andrew Whitworth

team play jobs

I probably sleep less, but I at least get quality sleep, i tailor my schedule way more than I used to when I was young. Offseason, too. I dont really take any break at all. I just kind of continuously work out year-round.

Andrew Whitworth

sports

If you're a true warrior, competition doesn't scare you. It makes you better.

Andrew Whitworth

true better you competition

I'm a technician. It's like that in football and the same way in golf. I want to try to find a way that I can swing the club properly. Over the years, it's getting better and better.

Andrew Whitworth

better golf football way

I think the way to maximize not just your leadership but your ability to influence your team is whatever you can do that helps the team perform at a really high level.

Andrew Whitworth

think you team leadership

You see some of these guys that lead in sacks every year, but they only play on third down or only play in certain situations.

Andrew Whitworth

down see you play

The bottom line is the best way to lead is to play well.

Andrew Whitworth

lead best play way

Freedom is a part of protest as well.

Andrew Whitworth

well part protest freedom

People fought hard for freedoms; they didn't fight hard for one mentality. If you really talk about what the country was founded on and what those people are protecting who went to war and fought these wars and give us our freedoms and are fighting for our freedoms, I think you have to really ask yourself what is involved in freedom.

Andrew Whitworth

yourself you freedom war

I've always been known for speeding up the tempo. To me, that's just the way you play the game - aggressive. There's no time to rest. You rest on the sidelines.

Andrew Whitworth

game me you time

As an older lineman, if you start to sit around, you get stiff. You get tired. Things start to set in.

Andrew Whitworth

start things you tired

As long as I'm here living and breathing, I'm going to be moving.

Andrew Whitworth

here living long moving

I love Cincinnati, and I want to be there.

Andrew Whitworth

cincinnati i-love want love

At the end of the day, who you are as a man is more important than who you are as a football player.

Andrew Whitworth

day you man football

As I say, 'Every tackle's nightmare is third and long.'

Andrew Whitworth

tackle every say long

Every team, in some sense, plays dirty. The game of football is dirty.

Andrew Whitworth

game team football dirty