I notice guys playing the piano playing a part up here and a part down there, and I wandered why couldn't I do that on the guitar?

The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

Perception is reality. If you are perceived to be something, you might as well be it because that's the truth in people's minds.

My dad, like any coach, has always stressed the fundamentals. He taught me responsibility, accountability, and the importance of hard work.

I always felt like hanging around the pocket was trouble, but the truth is, the great players take the beatings in the pocket and expose themselves -- and that is the real risk.

A running quarterback, to me, is safer. Because, once I got out [of the pocket], I didn?t run where there were a lot of people. I ran where there was nobody.

The principle is competing against yourself.

When you're an elite athlete, it's a very special moment in time and you don't want it to end.

I may yet move [from Nashville], and where would I move if not Texas or New Mexico? I couldn't afford a home in California. I need to travel out of there occasionally.

I was made to go to church and I heard the gospel songs, and every now then somebody would come through with a guitar and that was a thrill!

The wins and losses are over for Rice, the football player, who leaves with 38 NFL records. He was the easiest guy in the world to throw the football to, ... You always knew where he was headed.

There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a bunch of intellectual refugees.

Intentional leadership. The moment when your business starts to grow.

I know who I was, I can tell you who I may have been, but I am, now, only in this line of words I write.

I always wear boot polish on my eyelashes, because I am a very emotional person and it doesn't run when I cry.

If you play angry, you lose what you're supposed to do. On defense we just read our keys and play fast.

...the mayor should not be advancing a policy that encourages [illegal] immigrants to think of New York City as their safe haven.

Arminianism is 'natural' in one sense, in that it represents a characteristic perversion of Biblical teaching by the fallen mind of man.

For me, all drama is based on conflict.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

If we practice mindfulness, we always have a place to be when we are afraid.