I don't care if it's politics, religion or football. I believe you have to keep opening your mind. And shut your mouth sometimes!

Leadership doesn't come from age.

Football is my love. Football is what I'm going to do. I'm a football player first.

Life is short. You better get out there and do what you want to do while you can.

Adversity in life teaches you.

I'm hungry. I want the ball. That's the feeling you want. When you get that feeling, you can't be stopped.

I've come to realize that the thing in life that's important, the reason we're all here, is to love and do well for each other.

I'm my own biggest critic. I'm the one who has to go home and look at myself in the mirror.

I don't like second place; I'm out there trying to win everything.

I was awful at football when I was a little kid. I didn't have the aggressiveness. I was just a nice kid. I didn't want to hurt anyone.

It doesn't matter that I play football. Anybody can make a difference in life.

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.

What can a little town teach you? It can teach you how a little place already contains the whole features of the entire world!

Do you know the story?No, Finn, but I have a feeling you're going to tell me.

In America, with education and hard work, it really does not matter where you came from; it matters only where you are going.

To see far is one thing, going there is another.

That I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect equanimity, for I know now that life and death make a meaningful whole.

Next time you see someone sleeping, make believe you're in a science fiction movie. And whisper, 'The creature is regenerating itself.'

I'm inspired by watching and listening to people. For example, my first novel, The Scale, came to life after I overheard two women discussing their struggle with their weight at the gym.

It's never fun to do it by yourself. It's good to have other people that are on the same path as you. It's nice to have that in common and be able to converse with them. It's cool to share that.