I'm a cocky sumb**itch. That's what makes me such a great player.

You try to stay within the rules for the sake of the game, but you can always turn up the intensity.

Steroids are for guys who want to cheat opponents.

Football is not a game for the weak of heart, because every day you've got a hundred reasons to take all those pads off and say, 'F-k it.'

There are guys who want to shoot the last shot and others who want to pass off. I want that last shot.

Cocaine is totally different than steroids.

If they play dirty, then you play dirty.

You can't tell them anything, but hopefully they will learn from the example and won't have to go through it.

Taking them out of the picture, so to speak, what football really is, the savagery, the core root of football, it doesn't change. It really puts the real in football.

And I tell ya, when I sit in that sound booth and started reading the script and starting to get into the character, man, it's an easy jump for me, because I understand what it's all about.

But every day I tell my story, and be comfortable with my story and be comfortable with what I've done, and what I did, and how I am today, it lessens the likelihood it will ever happen.

Everybody makes mistakes, but when the same ones become consistent, they are commitments.

I believe in letting the story speak for itself.

Only one small, pale spot on her cheek was visible where her skin, free of blood, gleamed, as polished as bone.

The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you're definitely not an expert.

The doctor asked what my diet was like and I had to sit down and realize it's not normal, and hadn't been normal for about 20 years.

Never cut corners, or accept anything that's second-rate.

Hell, the truth is that I was named after a dog!

The idiot who invented instant grits also thought of frozen fried chicken, and they ought to lock him up before he tries to freeze-dry collards.

It was always summer and the future called We were ready for adventure and we wanted them all And there was so much left to dream And so much time to make it real

It was as hysterical as a woman having a hot flash.