Being there every week for my teammates is really important to me. It's about accountability. I hear stuff about the 'toughest quarterback in the league' and all that; what's that mean?

Remind your critics when they say you don't have the expertise or experience to do something that an amateur built the ark and the experts built the Titanic

You hear about how many fourth quarter comebacks that a guy has and I think it means a guy screwed up in the first three quarters.

The attitude with which we approach the situation can determine our success or failure.

I never left the field saying I could have done more to get ready and that gives me peace of mind.

If you wait for others to initiate change you automatically become a follower.

Pressue is something you feel when you don't know what the hell you're doing.

I committed my life to Christ, and that faith has been most important to me ever since.

If you work hard and you play well, all those critics quiet themselves pretty quickly.

My dad told us up front, 'Guys, if you want to play sports, go ahead, but it's your decision.

I think e-mail is kind of a cheap way to communicate. It's a lazy way of writing a letter, you know.

when you know that writing your own book of life is so difficult to begin with, the least you can do for someone else, is to try to read the pages of a person rather than skip through the chapters.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

I'm a poet. I'm just a renaissance man in my heart. I can build shelves and I can write poetry.

I never weigh myself. But if I put my trousers on and they don't do up, then I don't eat until I can.

Spring ... made fair false promises which summer was called upon to keep.

The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.

No use saying necessity is making a mistake.

Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness.'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis.

I take the kids to church and Sunday school. They love it. I really think it's important for a child to feel that there are things that are bigger than your life out there.

The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the advancement of science and the increase of knowledge.