Ever since I was a kid I've always loved history. I think that kind of catapulted things, but I would say the two major factors were maybe 9/11 and the election of Barack Obama.

To me probably the biggest disappointments, as far as a football career goes, is I feel like I didn't live up to my potential, and I didn't win a Super Bowl ring.

I think that we do have a great country, but there's a lot of things that we're not so great at. Unfortunately, education is one of them.

It's like, 'Wow. Yes, I had fun... but damn, was it really all worth it when I'm in a wheelchair at the age of 45 and can't play with my grandkids?'

I don't know what the NFL's going to look like in 15 years. Who knows. It's a great game; it's done a lot for me in my life.

Player safety is definitely something that has to be at the top of the list. I think that the union and the NFL are doing all they can to make sure they're protecting the players the best they can.

I think every year you're in the NFL you probably lose three or five years off your lifespan.

Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

My heart is very much alive and in your hands. Do your best not to destroy it. You are very lucky it isn't it my hands... The only thing I know to do with hearts is incinerate them! Ouch!

Choices are at the root of every one of your results.

Your home is that thing to which you can dedicate your energies with such singular devotion that the ultimate results become inconsequential.

Family has always been the number one priority no matter what happens anywhere else.

I love the sound of the wind in the trees and the song of the birds and the shuffle in the leaves of my many woodland friends.

I'm really tired of virtue.

Soul ain't nothing but a feeling.