After 12 years, the old butterflies came back. Well, I guess at my age you call them moths.

Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it - you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.

And so, it's not a thing of how many carries, but were you effective when you did carry.

When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you.

All I wanted to be was a player.

But, as always, Mr. Rooney would come over and shake your hand and congratulate you on a good game, no matter what the situation was.

And, coaching has never been an option for me.

The Houston Astrodome was kind of a tough field.

I really don't look at comparing things that way because even in a 14-game season, there could be a running back who could have a lot more carries than other running backs.

Jack Lambert is mean and relentless wherever he goes, on and off the field! I do remember many times he would chase me in practice but no way would I let him catch me.

Once that was over, I knew that my ties to a football organization would be over because I never wanted to coach or be in the front office.

A professional headshot in front of a bookshelf says you're an intellectual. A professional headshot peeking though a bookshelf says you're probably under a restraining order.

Write your own story, preferably in tattoos.

nothing she did or said was quite what she meant but still her life could be called a monument shaped in a slant of available light and set to the movement of possible music

Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.

The possibilities of percussion sounds, I believe, have never been fully realized

We will have a massive, massive tax increase under Hillary Clinton's plan.

Images are ... a kind of emotional shorthand.

The most defenseless tenderness and the bloodiest of powers have a similar need of confession. Western man has become a confessing animal.

The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us.

I cannot see that art is anything less than a way of making joys perpetual.