I had this urge to play the game of football because so many people said I couldn't do it.

Always persevere, always have a great perspective, and always have great purpose in your life

I thought about all the people that told me I couldn't do it and told me I couldn't get there.

Every setback has a major comeback.

I truly believe in positive synergy, that your positive mindset gives you a more hopeful outlook, and belief that you can do something great means you will do something great.

Every day I wake up and that’s my goal, to be on a constant quest for knowledge and do something different, being unique and being uncommon.

Separation comes from preparation.

I'm here today because God has brought me here. Jesus has brought me here...I'm with an amazing team. I believe He perfectly placed me in the right spot at the right time.

The only person I can change is the one in the mirror.

Live with a purpose, play with a purpose.

My dad used to wake me up at 5:30 in the morning and hit me ground balls and tell me, 'Don't be afraid to excel. Don't be afraid to be great.'

Serious history was the West, and the West was white.

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

Enlightenment is the food that eats you.

No white racist makes you get pregnant when you are a black teenager.

My only politics have been friendship.

People will think you're courting me.' 'Nonsense, everyone knows I don't court respectable women.

I wanted to be a truck driver. I love driving long distances!!!

When my oldest brother started acting. From there, I wanted to act myself. That's the long story short.

I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me.

Saw life steadily and saw it whole.