I think every year you have something to prove.

I believe in working hard all the time. I have faith that working hard is going to get me where I want to go.

I take being a role model seriously.

I don't worry about things I can't control.

I think about my family first. I want my family to not want for anything. I would like to make sure they have no worries.

I run with heart and determination, and that's what you can't measure-heart.

Some people say I'm the best back in the NFL. That's what drives you: You want everyone saying there's no doubt who's the best.

I've been dealing with being overlooked my whole life.

Faith is a strong word in my life. That's one thing my mother has always stressed to me.

You don’t have the same type of focus when you are undefeated.

I'm going to make the playoffs. You can believe that. To never play in the playoffs, that will not be my legacy.

Unity is a beast in itself.

I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.

The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.

Cod is more responsible for the discovery of the New World than almost anything else. Drove the Vikings across the North Atlantic, and John Cabot discovered America by looking for cod.

Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?

Revolutionary suicide does not mean that I and my comrades have a death wish; it means just the opposite.

Let one thousand flowers bloom.

The right question is usually more important than the right answer.

The holy man, though he be distressed, does not eat food mixed with wickedness. The lion, though hungry, will not eat what is unclean.

Treasure your exceptions.