I had three stages of knowing Wellington Mara. He was my boss for a long time and he was a father figure. And finally, as we got older, he was my friend.

Gray skies are just clouds passing over.

Before the first year, nobody gave it a chance. Now, 36 years later, everybody knows Monday Night Football.

Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.

We started out as boss and player, and Wellington was almost like my father.

Rosie is a Hall of Fame player, and I wouldn't be in the Hall of Fame if it weren't for him.

I was the law and order.

It is wonderful... Steve and Dan took professional football to a whole different level with the way they played the game. The fact that Steve is going in with Dan is very special.

Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners only survivors.

Everything worth having comes with a trial worth withstanding

I can't remember a time when I wasn't singing.

God knows I've done enough crap in my life to grow a few flowers.

Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for such diversion later in life.

They who, without any previous knowledge of us, think amiss of us, do us no harm; they attack not us, but the phantom of their own imagination.

The one-time cotton picker was now the heavyweight champion of the world.

He stood and went to read my pin as I approached. “America, is it?” he said, a smile playing on his lips. “Yes, it is. And I know I’ve heard your name before, but could you remind me?

In the U.K., there is a sort of obsession with class.

When you are frightened, you typically pull energy in to your center, seeing less, hearing less-shrinking consciousness precisely when you need to expand it.

Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.