First and foremost, I'm a running back. That's how I perceive myself.

The goals and expectations that people have for me are pretty high, but ... if I were to have to compare their expectations to mine, I would say mine are ten times higher.

This is my calling, this is why I was put on this earth-to make a difference in people's lives.

I am my own biggest critic ... I'm constantly criticizing myself, constantly trying to find ways to better myself and ... compete and, you know, just be the best.

Baseball was my first sport. I wish I would have stayed with it.

Taking care of my parents is one of the things that I want to do, just give them some of the things that we never had a chance to have. It's all about remembering where I came fromt.

I feel like it's God's plan for me to play football and make a difference in people's lives.

I try to focus on practice. This is work time. This is where we work, this is our office. I try not to let it distract me too much.

I play football, and most football players are camera shy. We just want to be left alone; we just want to stick to what we do.

The history says quarterbacks get paid more than running backs, but I think it depends on the caliber of the player - what you're getting, not just what the position is.

A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show for it?

Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw, if you've a ready mind, Where those of wit and learning, Will always find their kind.

People in high school either feel like they're with the cool kids in a clique, or they're isolated - there's no in-between.

When we will think deeply, then we will realize that enjoyment is short lasting and reality of it is suffering.

Sight is the least sensual of all the senses. And we strain ourselves to see, see, see--everything, everything through the eye, inone mode of objective curiosity.

I consider each business investment based on concept and revenue.

So the animal finally performs in that situation only the fitting act.

Pleasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good.

The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.

I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.