I took care of my body. Your body is your business in the NFL.

Many do with opportunities as children do at the seashore; they fill their little hands with sand, and then let the grains fall through, one by one, till all are gone.

My inspiration is my hometown.

I look at failure as the fertilizer to success.

Friends may come and go, but barbecues accumulate.

It is wonderful how cheered a pilot becomes after he shoots down his first machine; his morale increases by at least 100 percent.

I feel like there's no such thing as failure. When something doesn't go the way I want it to, I learn from it, and I accomplish more than I initially expected to.

You're whatever you think you are. People like to compartmentalize other people. I don't worry about what other people think. I'm not living for them.

I feel like there's no such thing as failure.

While I was in the NFL, I would eat five times a day. I only eat twice a day now, and I box and play basketball every day. I'm extremely happy with my body and mind...

Acting has helped me detox in football. Getting lost in a character and a scene, it's awesome.

I want to take a break from everything, to find out if.....i'm still ALIVE!

The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser in musty books. The time is when the library is a school and the librarian in the highest sense a teacher.

There are many whose tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.

A lot of the time [in the U.S.], I was thinking about how spending time is always questionable or is always the biggest obstacle in my life.

Your soul suffers if you live superficially.

My personal cause and platform, if you like, is women's rights and women's issues.

Between the head and feet of any given person is a billion miles of unexplored wilderness.

The trouble with taxonomic boxes is... that that they tend to be empty, however beautiful they are on the outside.

Are the people in your life inspiring you or tiring you?

Nothing is more natural than grief, no emotion more common to our daily experience. It's an innate response to loss in a world where everything is impermanent.