I did admire the comments and the music of Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie. And that didn't fly too well in the Deep South. It was not quite redneck enough.

The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

Perception is reality. If you are perceived to be something, you might as well be it because that's the truth in people's minds.

My dad, like any coach, has always stressed the fundamentals. He taught me responsibility, accountability, and the importance of hard work.

I always felt like hanging around the pocket was trouble, but the truth is, the great players take the beatings in the pocket and expose themselves -- and that is the real risk.

A running quarterback, to me, is safer. Because, once I got out [of the pocket], I didn?t run where there were a lot of people. I ran where there was nobody.

The principle is competing against yourself.

When you're an elite athlete, it's a very special moment in time and you don't want it to end.

I may yet move [from Nashville], and where would I move if not Texas or New Mexico? I couldn't afford a home in California. I need to travel out of there occasionally.

I was made to go to church and I heard the gospel songs, and every now then somebody would come through with a guitar and that was a thrill!

The wins and losses are over for Rice, the football player, who leaves with 38 NFL records. He was the easiest guy in the world to throw the football to, ... You always knew where he was headed.

I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.

Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even when he’s there, he’s not really there.

Tattoos, after all, are a passionate, usually doomed assertion of mastery of your own destiny, or at least a defiant embrace of one that you cannot control.

I loved you, and my love had no return, And therefore my true love has been my death.

Frequently people just vote for the party out of power because they're disappointed or angry at what is happening at the moment.

When any great design thou dost intend, Think on the means, the manner, and the end.

We estimate that by 2010 China will have added another 250 million subscribers, strengthening its position as the single largest mobile market in the world.

It's always weird the thought of taking your clothes off in front of 20 people and then to have it projected in front of many more.

Self-criticism expands the opportunities for discourse and eliminates the need for an adversary.

SOmetimes life isn't fair, and straight people are straight up crazy.