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.

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 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.

I want people to come to the game to see what I will do next.

Until you discover what you can do with your time, you won’t know how to go about crucial things

I lean my head against my knee and close my eyes. Even the illusion of June is enough to send a stabbing pain through my chest. Hell. I miss her so much.

I had an essence in my life that I was nothing.

Happiness is in the mind and the mind is the universe. Your mind is the universe, not just this physical universe that you perceive through your senses.

Much is required of those who are happy, especially if they have needed comforting in the past, and have received it.

All children are sweet at five. But at twelve they begin to get silly.

Oh yeah, oohing and ahhing, that's how it always starts, but later there's the running and screaming.

Poems not only demand patience, they demand a kind of surrender. You must give yourself up to them. This is the real food for a poet: other poems, not meat loaf.

Everyone is a little bit more close-knit and you rely on people a little bit more. The bigger the budget gets, the more everyone toes the line in their department.