Football is a very short-term proposition. Football really prepares you for nothing. The only thing I got out of football was the ability to work hard, and that's it.

The Lord is first, my friends are second, and I am third.

There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.

I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.

We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.

I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.

Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.

Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will make heroes of us all.

When you step onto that field, you cannot concede a thing.

I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.

I have no idea what I did. I heard people talk about dead leg, shake, change of pace and all that, but I did things without thinking about them.

The future is a split second away.

Love is heavenly.Expression of love gives us the sweetest joy and deepest fulfillment.

Education should be one of our top funding priorities talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.

Peace of Mind? Don't leave home (or go home) without it.

Love me less, but love me for a long time

Most of us float with the river and there are a few people who move the river. Robert DeNiro is definitely one of them.

Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.

I love 'True Blood.' I love 'The Walking Dead.' Those are fantastic series.

My message to you all is hope, courage and confidence.

I write the lyrics based on what is going on in my life - I'm not going to write about the old hair metal stuff, like castles and stuff.