I really wanted a guitar. As A little boy I used to tell people I was going to be a musician. They would humor me, and I'd make up thirty minute songs and drive them nuts.

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.

I know who you are. My father told me stories about you. He talked about your hands-hands that created the world surrendered to cruel nails

Coffee is to a Writer as Blood is to a Vampire!

That was probably the weirdest thing that's ever happened to me." "What? Almost falling in a ditch?""No, being carried by a girl.

You can equate acting to a tennis game: When you're playing one of the best, you get better.

I condemn the lack of proper investigation of the massacres and the impunity of those responsible for them.

I intend to do a large painting of the cliff at Etretat, although it is terribly bold of me to do so after Courbet has painted it so admirably, but I will try to do it in a different way.

I like to see a home like this, a home connected with people's thoughts and work, things they love.

I have trouble listening to people tell me about their dreams.

I don't like to be in the forest. It's a weird thing. I've learned to have a general appreciation for nature, which has taken a while. But the forest, I still don't really love.

Let my love like sunlight surround you and yet give you illumined freedom.