Every step, whether at high school or at college or at the NFL, I had to climb and crawl and scratch to get there.

There were times when I thought I would never own a car.

There's only one life. There's no repeats. You only get one life, and you gotta take advantage of it.

I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.

At the end of the day, there are people out there that want to see you fail.

It was definitely some tough moments throughout my life, but I kind of stayed focused and came through the other end of the tunnel.

I never dreamed about being a millionaire - I dreamed about being a football player.

I was always the type of person that whenever I started something I finished it. And, I was always held accountable for my actions.

My mom lived by herself with two kids. Sacrifice was the name of the game at our house.

When I was young, it wasn't about the money, it wasn't about the fame and fortune, it was about playing football.

You have to think about your image and how you want people to view you. And if it becomes too much, people will get kind of tired of you.

Oh my Father if it be possible let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will but as thou wilt.

I want to say a very sincere thank you for this welcome home - it is a wonderful welcome home. It is the place to where I return and where I will always return because it is of Galway that I am.

Just breathe. Sometimes you're only a few breaths away from feeling better.

I have been a political activist most of my life and many groups have attempted to label me as a criminal because of my outspoken beliefs. I am not a criminal and I have never been one.

If your spirit still looks around at the time of prayer, then it does not yet pray as a monk. You are no better than a man of affairs engaged in a kind of landscape gardening.

Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available, we shall, in an emotional sense, acquire an additional dimension.

Two radical activists in an organizing group sometime despise each other and disagree with each other as much as a Republican and Democratic politician do.

You can't make Christ funny. He's self-aware, he's too flexible within the situation. It's rigidity, it's when the ego takes over and the behavior becomes inappropriate that it becomes funny.

Government does not have magic powers. In fact, the opposite is true; it is the least effective agency invented by man.

When you understand things, there's no more magic.