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

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.

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.

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.

You are my universe! I am longing to belong!

As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.

When you awaken, your manhood will be taken.

I've never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn't have written much better myself.

I am really passionate about sports in general - especially water sports.

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.

Really, there is no infidelity, nowadays, so great as that which prays, and keeps the Sabbath, and rebuilds the churches. The sealer of the South Pacific preaches a truer doctrine.

But I love to feel events overlapping each other, crawling over one another like wet crabs in a basket

But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.

You can't retrieve you life (unless you're on Wikipedia, in which case you can retrieve an inaccurate version of it).