I know I'm the No. 1 quarterback for the Washington Redskins, and that's all that matters in my heart. That's all I wanted. I wanted a team that wanted me, and I found that.

I think if you're a good high school player that you have the ability to be a good college football player. If you're a good college football then you have the ability to be a great NFL player.

I like to think I'm pretty smart with what I was able to do academically, but whenever I get on the field I turn into the Incredible Hulk and I am unstoppable.

Football is football and talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference.

Hard work pays off - hard work beats talent any day, but if you're talented and work hard, it's hard to be beat.

In a land of freedom we are held hostage by the tyranny of political correctness.

You will find that success in life comes far easier when you maintain a cool head and a warm heart, rather than a hot head and cold feet.

There's a couple things you don't talk about in life, and that's race, religion and politics. I try to make sure I don't talk about politics at all.

It's always a lot more fun as a quarterback if you can do things you don't normally get to do. So if I can catch a pass and make a play for the team, that's what I'm willing to do.

A lot of people have already labeled me the Savior.

No one coaches what to do after three seconds, after the quarterback's broken the pocket or he's been in the pocket for five, six seconds.

We can’t heal what we refuse to acknowledge.

You can not fix everything. You can not fix most of what's wrong. But you can try. And it is in trying that you learn who you are.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

I've listened to Jazz since I was born and always knew I'd be a Jazz singer!

The road to Hell is paved with the bones of priests and monks, and the skulls of bishops are the lamp posts that light the path.

The great question of all choosers and adventurers is 'Was it worth while?' - and whatever else you may expect of life, don't expect an answer to that.

My first poem was a bolt from the blue … it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. ... it filled me with soul satisfying joy.