Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.

One day, though, I was asked if I'd like to go to the University of Florida and become a Gator.

Good luck is a residue of preparation.

I don't talk much to offensive linemen in general.

I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It's like having a mental workshop.

You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done.

Those opportunities to play in championship games are few and far between

The disappointment of losing is huge.

The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win

The emotions of the game do not change.

Football has been my life for as long as I can remember.

You can never know about about your own destiny: are the people you meet there to play a part on your oun destiny, or do you exist just to play a role in theirs?

what a luxury it was for people to hold their loved ones whenever they wanted

We must first achieve peace within ourselves. Only then can we take that peace out into the world and invite others to make similar changes.

Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.

Love is big. Love makes room for conflicting feelings.

If we (Lauren and Jim) ever get married, we're just going to put helmets on, run into each other from a hundred yards, and smash together like rams

I've always gravitated towards people who are extreme. Whether its drugs, or kicking down doors. Normally, the people in my life had to escape to get back.

I made stupid decisions as a kid, or as a young adult, but I'm trying to be now, I'm trying to take this lemon and make lemonade.

There's a lot of money to be made by taking women seriously, and letting them know you're taking them seriously.

When your life changes and you become a more public person, in some ways you need to be a more closed person, you know?