Even though my mother had told me growing up that, 'If you win, nobody cares what color you are,' that wasn't necessarily true in the N.F.L.

Sportsmanship is making sure you have respect for the guy you're playing across from.

It was about being wanted, it was about winning, and it was about my passion for the game. I just loved it. I absolutely loved to compete and to step out onto that football field with my teammates.

My legacy isn't about what I did playing football, but how I use the opportunities that came from playing football.

Charles Barkley, Clyde Drexler and I used to argue for hours about who the best athletes are. I thought football players were better overall.

Throughout my career, I was never able to relax; I always had to go on the field with another responsibility. I felt like I was playing, not just for my team, but for my race.

To me, being in your prime means playing your best and feeling your best, too.

In football, it's the ultimate team sport. You have to have good people around you as a quarterback for things to happen.

Quarterback is not a position that you come in having not played it your whole life.

I love basketball players for what they do for their size - so graceful.

I'm about a 160, 170 bowler so I feel like I'm pretty good - I'm average, but I don't stink, you know?

Gin a body meets a body Comin' through the rye. Gin a body kiss a body Need a body cry?

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday.

If the legislation helps people improve their lives, then that's great because that's the ultimate goal of all of this.

The cancer doesn't bother me. I have great faith that the technology will beat it.

The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.

Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged and sold without benefit of accident or human frailty, is uniformly good and uniformly tasteless, so will our speech become one speech.

Loss is not as bad as wanting more.

Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits.

You look older.” “Yes, well. The passage of time tends to do that to a person.