Growing up, you'd see Michael Jordan on everything from Gatorade to shoes - everything. Obviously, that's something pretty cool for an athlete to aspire to.

If you do the bare minimum, expect bare minimum results. You want to be great, work to be great. Nothing just happens

Success isn't owned. It's leased and rent is due every day.

Some people chase money. Some people chase fame. Some chase greatness - and that's what I'm trying to do.

Greatness is earned, not given.

Heard someone say, 'I can't wait until I can finally say I've made it.' The day you think you've 'made it' is the day you begin your decline.

Right now, I am a football player and I will sacrifice whatever is necessary to be the best.

They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.

For the first time in history, my community has had to use air conditioners. Imagine that, air conditioners in the Arctic.

I have a limited amount of time to build a career out of football and be the best that I can be at this job. When this job is over, I have the rest of my life to do what I want with my time.

There is no idea so stupid or hackneyed that a sufficiently-talented writer can't get a good story out of it.

It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.

Often seems to me that people believe they can become only what they already are, when in fact they are what they've chosen to be, by deliberate decision as well as lack of it

Borrowing is not much better than begging.

It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.

What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind.

You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue.

Occasionally, family members treat each other with less courtesy and kindness than they do acquaintances or even strangers.

If there's no sun, I go batshit crazy.

Bigotry is surely an exportable American commodity, especially when it comes to race.

It's really such a personal journey, making a record, but even more so writing the songs.