After the homicide, the teens snapped photos of the body with a cell phone camera, they took friends into the woods to see the body and the teens even considered getting tattoos to show that they had participated in a murder.
His attitude changed in the penitentiary. And the tattoos were put on in the penitentiary. We felt these things were explained to the jurors.
I'm a very traditional person. The tattoos are about my grandmother dying and they tell the story about my mother and father, my brothers and my sister, my kids. It's pretty much a family tree on my arm with my life in football too.
Usually the tattoos are an asset. Because of what I do here, people are fine with tattoos. Sometimes I actually think they feel better when they see my arm because they almost expect an artist to be tattooed.
To this day, I still haven't touched one dime of my signing bonus or NFL contract money. I live off my marketing money and haven't blown it on any big-money expensive cars, expensive jewelry, or tattoos and still wear my favorite pair of jeans from high school.
Our secretary read the story and told us about it. His prison tattoos are actually easier to remove than professional ones.
I think you find more tattoos right now than maybe even World War II. It's become an epidemic, and I don't have a problem with that if you're over 18.
My brother and I have matching tattoos on our arms. It says, 'Humility is strength,' in Portuguese and Italian, because my genius brother taught English in both Italy and Brazil.
I love the way my tattoos look. I especially love Japanese-style tattoos and being completely sleeved by them, so it's not just these little individual and unrelated pieces, but everything's working together to create a larger design.
People look at those tattoos and think he's just some kid from the street. What they don't know is that Ray is an extremely hard worker and an unselfish teammate. He's determined to do bigger and better things with his life.