I do want to go out on top, as a winner

I have enjoyed the years enormously in Cleveland and especially in Baltimore

I don't want my grandchildren to go through what I went through

The pride and presence of a professional football team is far more important than 30 libraries.

I never lied to a person in my life; my kids didn't, either

If you start becoming withdrawn and looking over your shoulder, being careful about what you say, that's being paranoid. This is an open, accessible team. That's been my trademark for years.

I want to be remembered as a guy who tried his best and did his best

That got us started on revenue sharing, and we couldn't have done it without all the teams.

I never give up on my players, and I'll never give up on people.

I have a great legacy, tarnished somewhat by the move.

I had to do what I had to do to keep my family alive. Period.

The heart aches in brokenness as daylight awakens the pain of knowing.

You have got to believe in yourself every time you go out there and race. If you have no faith in your ability all that training has been a waste of time.

Curiosity takes ignorance seriously - and is confident enough to admit when it's in the dark. It is aware of not knowing. And then it sets out to do something about it.

I used to think that once a writer became a man of letters, if only for a half hour, he was done for. And here I am now, at the very moment of such an odious, though respectable, danger.

Sexism is not inevitable. It's only about controlling reproduction and therefore controlling women.

A purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice grace and beauty for mere utility

I often wonder if I am suffering from some mental dysfunction because of how weird and baffling my poetry seems to so many people and sometimes to me too.

Don't ever think that you can't change the past.

President Obama should be championing American prominence, not apologizing for it.

It's hard being the king, but somebody's got to do it.