My mother had me when she was 15. My father died before I was born. So my mother was a teenage widow, and she used herself as her greatest example so I wouldn’t end up in her position.

There’s no such thing as luck. There’s decisions and consequences.

You know who I am, which is a problem. For both of us. A problem that has to go away.

I’ve been stabbed, shot, run over – twice. Next day, I’m good as new.

You cannot live in fear.

I’m the only one who can walk in both worlds. I’m the Ghost Rider.

The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.

I actually had a nickname as a player myself. When I played high school football in Texas, strong safety, they called me Choo Choo because they said I hit like a train.

I’d work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who’s a wushu master.

We seem, as a culture, to start to adhere to these antiheroes and have grown tired of the traditional, straight-up-and-down good guy.

Austin is almost a million people, but it still feels like a relatively small town. Everybody knows each other. Or at least everyone in the filmmaking community.

I played soccer, recreationally, in college.

I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.

I’ve been an actor now since freshman year of college, so it’s 11 or 12 years.

Professional sports, in of itself, is a fantasy, for the majority of the population.

While American football is very structured and linear and static, where everyone lines up and there’s a burst and it happens, soccer is like the cosmos. It’s like constellations. It’s bodies moving in space. It’s a very spherical game. You can move in any direction, at any time.

Every day is a brand-new, completely crazy fantasy-adventure, where I’m either kicking ass or kicking balls. It’s all part of the job. All of that is really fun for everyone. It plays like a comic book superhero.