I go out and put in a load during the offseason so I know what I'm going to be able to do, as long as I stay healthy, when it comes time for the season.

Adversity makes me hungrier. I thrive on being able to make a way out of no way.

I dedicate myself and work hard in the weight room and treat every practice as if it were a game.

I remember my mistakes more than my success.

My dad means a lot to me. He's the one who put a football in my hands.

If you don't think that you're the best, how do you become the best?

I take football as an avenue to different opportunities. Football is not using me; I'm using football.

I'm pretty sure I could outrun the whole Dallas Cowboys team.

I have to continue to be a great leader and contribute in any way that I can, and get guys to follow suit. That's how you turn a team around.

I have always believed that the way my parents disciplined me has a great deal to do with the success I have enjoyed as a man.

I would sacrifice 1,000 yards rushing to win a Super Bowl. But I want to be the first back to have back-to-back 2,000-yard seasons.

Whenever it comes to doing anything. Remember the part about having confidence.

What man is there that does not laboriously though all unconsciously himself fashion the sorrow that is to be the pivot of his life.

I remember failing reading in school at a young age, and you just kinda get left behind and I felt helpless.

I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.

Whether happy or unhappy, life is the only treasure man possesses.

The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.

Being born in New York City, tends to lead to big expectations, expectations that I only started to realize after I had left.

Companies prefer to put money in the pockets of shareholders or to hoard cash rather than to raise wages or invest.

Debt is not caused by spending, it is caused by buying things that you don't pay for. Or, it's caused by cutting revenues that you don't offset ... by cuts in spending.

My favorite Elton John song is "Daniel"; my son is named Daniel and he's partly named after my wife's father, but also partly named after that song.