Donald Driver
Donald Driver
Donald Jerome Driveris a retired American football wide receiver, a New York Times bestselling author, and the season 14 Dancing with the Stars champion. After playing college football for Alcorn State University, Driver was picked by the Green Bay Packers in the seventh round of the 1999 NFL draft. Driver spent his entire 14-season National Football Leaguecareer with the Packers and holds the franchise's all-time records for most career receptions and receiving yards. Every year in Cleveland, Driver holds the...
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth2 February 1975
CityHouston, TX
In minicamps, who was it? I was the flanker. Ferguson was the split end,
We have a lot of fans over there. I'd say it's 50-50 or maybe 60-40. It just depends on who gets the tickets first.
Our biggest thing was to go out there in a new year 1-0. I felt like that's what we did.
We can't even call ourselves a trio, ... We have to call ourselves a foursome because we have four guys who can change the game at any time.
We owe those guys. Those guys beat us at home last time. It's payback. It's called a rematch. It's just like playing a Madden game -- you get beat and you want a rematch. We want a rematch.
We are not familiar with losing, and that is one thing we stress in this locker room: Dont get familiar with losing, because we never lose games here. I think a lot of guys know that, and they know the tradition behind the Green Bay Packers, so it is time for us to get on this road and start winning games.
In my final years in Green Bay, when I wasn't getting the ball, people would ask me why I never complained. 'Because these guys are my family,' I would say. 'I'm not selfish. It's not about me. It's about these guys, my family, and winning championships together.
It took me 13 years to win a Super Bowl. But it only took me one season to win a 'mirror ball.'
Everywhere I go now, people are like, 'That's the guy from 'Dancing With the Stars!'' It's pretty good that you're not just a football player but you're in the entertainment world.
I play in front of 70,000 fans week in and week out, and I may drop the ball in practice, I may run the ball the wrong way, but once it's game time, it's game on.
Stars do not struggle to shine, rivers do not struggle to flow, and you will never struggle to excel in life because of the power of your passion.
I was so raw I didn't know about the Lambeau Leap-a Packer player celebrates catching a touchdown by leaping into the stands. It was started by Leroy Butler years before and has been copied by players all over the league. Don't be fooled, though. The only legitimate Lambeau Leap is celebrated by a Packer at Lambeau Field.
We'd like as many of our fans as possible in there,
We have to get ourselves out of the hole, ... Right now, we are in the deep hole.