I love basketball players for what they do for their size - so graceful.

Sportsmanship is making sure you have respect for the guy you're playing across from.

It was about being wanted, it was about winning, and it was about my passion for the game. I just loved it. I absolutely loved to compete and to step out onto that football field with my teammates.

My legacy isn't about what I did playing football, but how I use the opportunities that came from playing football.

Charles Barkley, Clyde Drexler and I used to argue for hours about who the best athletes are. I thought football players were better overall.

Even though my mother had told me growing up that, 'If you win, nobody cares what color you are,' that wasn't necessarily true in the N.F.L.

Throughout my career, I was never able to relax; I always had to go on the field with another responsibility. I felt like I was playing, not just for my team, but for my race.

To me, being in your prime means playing your best and feeling your best, too.

In football, it's the ultimate team sport. You have to have good people around you as a quarterback for things to happen.

Quarterback is not a position that you come in having not played it your whole life.

I'm about a 160, 170 bowler so I feel like I'm pretty good - I'm average, but I don't stink, you know?

Before such a prodigious career judgement is torn between blame and admiration.

We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.

Love is worthless unless it acts out, unless it's expressed in deed and behavior.

Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism.

I used to think a bird couldn't fly if its wings got wet.

The thing is that, they all had real strong personalities and real distinct identities, and I don't find most of the groups that are coming out now really do.

Bands are more willing to take risks and we don't need this big label over us anymore telling us what it means to sell records and get into magazines.

It is really funny to see people that you know acting unpleasantly just because there are TV cameras on.

To expect wickedness from human beings is the best way I know of to avoid surprises. And when I am surprised, it's always pleasantly.

I said, “I just want to know you and then disappear.” She said, “Knowing me does not mean dying.