Patient Luck confident in shoulder recovery

Colts quarterback Andrew Luck smiles while addressing the media Monday at the Indiana Farm Bureau Football Center.INDIANAPOLIS — It's rare — to say the least — for any NFL player to reference Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea," to help explain his mental state while recovering from injury.

Then again, Andrew Luck is no ordinary NFL player.

The fact the 28-year-old quarterback was drawing parallels with a modern literary classic during his first media session of the spring Monday is as sure a sign as any he's starting to feel like his old self again.

As the Colts officially opened their offseason program at the Indiana Farm Bureau Football Center, Luck admitted he still has work to do…