Quotes from Charles Woodson

When the time comes to retire, I think I'll know. I really do.

To be honest, retirement has been good.

I love the game. You never get rid of that.

Green Bay is a blue-collar community, and it's all about the Packers. I was able to go there, slow down and focus on the game.

I am a sore loser. I will be the first to admit that. When I get on video games I am not that good and when I play against somebody and they beat me, I want to rip the game out the wall, that type of thing. So, I really hesitate from playing them.

I never wanted to be that guy that acted like I wasn't in the locker room and then all of a sudden I was an analyst. I played the game. I've been through the bumps and bruises, the politics. When I give an opinion, I want it to be real.

Jon Gruden just wants you to come to work, work hard and produce on Sundays. He's not really too much worried about babysitting or holding somebody's hand.

You can't talk about the NFL without the Raiders, the three Super Bowl championships, what Al Davis meant to the league.

You can't say Charles doesn't know what he's talking about.

I grew up watching my older brother very closely who was a football player and a star in my hometown of Fremont, Ohio. My love of the game started early because of watching him. My neighborhood played a ton of football, pickup games outside in the backyards of the apartments where I grew up.

The time that I spent out of camp, I made sure when I sat out that I was in tip-top condition.

I want to portray myself as myself.

Any time as a corner you feel like you're in good position and the ball's still coming, you don't understand why, but you don't care at that point. You just want to catch the ball and hold up your end of the bargain if they throw it to you.

If you love your job and you love what you do, you'll just continue to go out there and work, and try to make whatever corrections you can.

So, growing up myself, I played flag all the way up until seventh grade. So, we didn't tackle until I was 12, 13 years old or whatever it was.

Practice, training camps to me are fairly easy.

The way people connected with wine intrigued me and I wanted to be a part of it.

The wine business is intense. It's not just bottle it and sell it. It's really a process.

A lot of hard work goes into making a great wine. It requires that same type of dedication and discipline that goes into getting to the Super Bowl as an NFL player.

My love of wine happened organically while being in Napa Valley during training camp while playing for the Oakland Raiders in the 90s.

If you want to make a great wine that can stand the test of time, then you must put the time and the work into it.

For both the wine business and in football, if you want longevity, you must work hard.

When I started trying wine, I started drinking merlot, and that's all I had. I would go to dinner, and I'd see people drinking wine, and if I ordered anything, it would just be a merlot.

I like to call my wines 'anytime wines,' You just want to sit and open up a bottle and watch 'The Blacklist' on a Monday night? Open it up, and it's very easy. It's very approachable.