I'm getting the basics with the AFL, but the NFL is a different animal

I can't compare quarterbacks as apples and oranges in my mind because everybody's in a different system.

It's all about putting the best team together - not just in the front office but the players on the field.

I've experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything you have to be at both ends of the spectrum.

In the long run, the cream always rises and the crap always sinks.

I always believe there's a reason why you go through everything.

You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing.

I look at my career and it's still hard for me to believe the way things turned out and how things happened. I've been so blessed.

Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Things have been done the hard way. I think you learn better when things are done the hard way.

There are a lot of people who might not get another chance to win a Super Bowl, not just me.

I've always joked about Joe Montana not appreciating his Super Bowls nearly as much as I do because he never lost one. We lost three before we got one

I live every day as if I can die any moment.

Hope is an act of faith. Great faith, great hope.

But we reject the belief that America must choose between caring for the generation that built this country and investing in the generation that will build its future.

Time is a machine: it will convert your pain into experience... It will force you to move on and you will not have a choice in the matter.

I don't have a great eye for detail. I leave blanks in all of my stories. I leave out all detail, which leaves the reader to fill in something better.

You've got to pursue your dreams and it will get you to places that you can't even imagine.

Prayer is the most tangible expression of trust in God.

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

Poetry is music written for the human voice.

I think those who have impact and influence over us are often unaware.