I'm my own biggest critic. I'm the one who has to go home and look at myself in the mirror.

Leadership doesn't come from age.

Football is my love. Football is what I'm going to do. I'm a football player first.

Life is short. You better get out there and do what you want to do while you can.

Adversity in life teaches you.

I'm hungry. I want the ball. That's the feeling you want. When you get that feeling, you can't be stopped.

I've come to realize that the thing in life that's important, the reason we're all here, is to love and do well for each other.

I don't like second place; I'm out there trying to win everything.

I was awful at football when I was a little kid. I didn't have the aggressiveness. I was just a nice kid. I didn't want to hurt anyone.

It doesn't matter that I play football. Anybody can make a difference in life.

It's important to me to be a complete player.

Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.

When people try to pull you down, remember, they had to look up to do so.

As we got older, their mischiefs continued to be shrugged off, but mine were not, and I knew from that point that I was measured from a different stick than my brothers.

Love is the intuitive knowledge of our hearts.

I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he's got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups.

Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.

I grew up before there were strict leash laws.

When one man of popularity can let the world know the problem, he might lose a few dollars himself. He might lose his life. But he's helping millions.

To the Somali, the Amerikaan is weird, to the American GI, the Somali is an ingrate and a skinny.

I found out I'd been signing my name wrong. You know, like with the alphabet they teach you in preschool. But I think I've got it right now.