As I was coming up, it always seemed like I was learning. If it wasn't from school, it was the 'hood. The influences of the 'hood are very powerful.

You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast.

I'm afraid of being average. I have a real fear of being just another linebacker.

No excuses and no sob stories. Life is full of excuses if you're looking. I have no time to gripe over misfortune. I don't waste time looking back.

I'm not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you'll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf all day in Oceanside. It ain't going to happen.

I get paid to practice. I play the game for free.

I had parents who instilled in me the importance of love, morals and hard work. I give God all the glory because he has brought me through so much.

In order to gain the respect of your players in the locker room, you can't just perform on Saturday. You have to do it consistently during practices, meetings, and in the weight room.

Leadership comes with consistency.

The past isn't going to get you to your goal.

I'm not afraid to fail. I'm afraid to be mediocre.

I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

People always had conditions. God's love was and is so unconditional.

Opening your hands will set you free.

Why should our bodies end at the skin, or include at best other beings encapsulated by skin?

Most Americans don't understand Canadian political parties. Neither do most Canadians

Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.

So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words.

If you have an ancestor who is a Benedictine monk, we would rather not know it.

You did something because it had always been done, and the explanation was, ‘But we’ve always done it this way.’ A million dead people can’t have been wrong, can they?