A perfect record does not mean that someone is the greatest. Rocky Marciano never lost a fight, but I never hear anyone say he's the greatest heavyweight champion of all time.

Life is great, football is better.

Life is good. Football is better.

My father always used to say ‘treat everyone as a gentleman; not because they are, but because you are.’

But I can tell you this: Nothing will happen up there that can duplicate my life down here. That life cannot be better than the one I've lived down here, the football life. It's been perfect.

To me, football is very personal. Even as a kid, I looked at football in dramaturgical terms. It wasn't the score that interested me, it was the struggle.

I've always believed in making films that you make the little decisions with your head, but you make the big decisions with your heart.

The autumn wind is a Raider, / Pillaging just for fun; / He'll knock you around, / And upside down, / And laugh when he's conquered and won.

I always was fascinated by neat nicknames.

NFL Films has had one continuous, creative vision for 47 years. These are timeless things; timeless stories that we capture just like people go back and read Greek mythology.

I think in the NFL knowledge is power, and you try to get the knowledge by whatever means.

If people don’t sleep with me I just rape them. Because right is not given but taken.

Advice from friends is like the weather. Some of it is good; some of it is bad.

History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis - real or manufactured.

I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand.

There is much more mystery in the shadow of a man walking on a sunny day, than in all religions of the world.

I am back in Los Angeles after a very successful run in Chicago as Billy Flynn.

We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny.

In a flat choice between smoke and jobs, we're for jobs... But just keep me out of trouble on environmental issues.

No more than a surgeon can operate while tweeting can you reach your potential with one ear in, one ear out. You actually have to reacquaint yourself with concentration. We all do.

You can finish school, and even make it easy - but you never finish your education, and it's seldom easy.