I have to fit in. Wherever they want to use me, that's fine.

I believe in working hard all the time. I have faith that working hard is going to get me where I want to go.

I take being a role model seriously.

I don't worry about things I can't control.

I think about my family first. I want my family to not want for anything. I would like to make sure they have no worries.

I run with heart and determination, and that's what you can't measure-heart.

Some people say I'm the best back in the NFL. That's what drives you: You want everyone saying there's no doubt who's the best.

I've been dealing with being overlooked my whole life.

Faith is a strong word in my life. That's one thing my mother has always stressed to me.

You don’t have the same type of focus when you are undefeated.

I'm going to make the playoffs. You can believe that. To never play in the playoffs, that will not be my legacy.

The purpose of the state is really freedom.

Even though we are supposed to be low caste and poor our vote also has the same value and validity as that of great people.

We form our impression not globally, by placing ourselves in the broadest possible context, but locally, by comparing ourselves to people in the same boat as ourselves.

Everything you're sure is right can be wrong in another place.

It's one thing to be struggling and not really making money in your early 20s and figuring out your life. Early 30s, you start to wonder, is this ever going to happen?

For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent.

It's not the hair on your head that matters. It's the kind of hair you have inside.

Ethical obligation has to subordinate itself to the totalitarian nature of war.

I think to be a supermodel you first had to be a model, and I think people are jumping and missing that stage.

Japanese is a baby talk - very, very hard to read, very, very, easy to talk. ... A very faint kind of language.