I got into the college of my dreams because of a 4.0 and 1,600.
Not GPA and SAT, but yards per carry and receiving yards.
Well actually, that is a slight exaggeration. Forgive me—the older I get, the better I was.
I was, however, a high school All-America football player, earning a scholarship to play tight end at Stanford.
I would not be where I am today without football. I am not talking simply about what I do as a U.S. senator—though that, too—but who I am. I poured so much of my early life into a sport that returned to me gifts beyond my imagination.