At USC, if you're running back there, and you do gain you over 1,500 yards, people see you as a candidate, but not one of the top ones.

Love yourself. Respect yourself. Never sell yourself short. Believe in yourself regardless of what people think. You can accomplish anything, absolutely anything, if you set your mind to it.

That's the thing about fear. Death will kill you once, but fear kills you over and over and over, if you let it.

But Barry, to me, is head and shoulders above everybody.

There are two types of players: those who know and those who don’t. The smartest ones usually play the longest and [are] usually the most successful.

I just think that we're capable of so much more; we don't utilize all our capacity like we should.

To be a winner of that, and to fall in the long line of traditional great backs at USC, to have your name in perpetuity, the fact that your parents are like icons... that's the greatest thing.

But there is something to the fact that we don't see games on the West Coast, or we don't see games on the East Coast, and stuff like that. It's so unfair, because there is a bias that takes place.

Even as voters, we try to keep up with the guys as much as possible, mainly through television or ESPN.

It's always hard - if you're not the best player on your team, how can you be the best player in college?

It actually took me a year to learn how to play running back - to understand what they were doing defensively and then what our guys were doing every single play.

When I started writing, there was nothing about zombies. It was all teen movies, which to me are scarier than zombies, but that's another story.

A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance.

No one is born hating others.

I didn't want to get married. What I knew of most men was something I didn't want any part of. I just wanted to work on my career.

In my particular case foreign policy happens to be my hobby, my consuming interest. I had spent decades studying it.

The best thing about the E Street Band was we had the best lead singer around.

When my husband died in 2006, I didnt want to be Mitzi Gaynor anymore.

After all, if there is a heaven, we will find each other again, for there is no heaven without you.

I have learned the power of surviving.

[I enjoy] working with yeast, tempering chocolate and figuring out why an end product is successful or not.