I want to be recognized as the best-no doubt about it. When they say all-pro middle linebacker, I want them to mean Butkus!

When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.

If I was smart enough to be a doctor, I'd be a doctor. I ain't, so I'm a football player.

We're a big check mark on everybody's schedule. I told them it's just another challenge; let's go after it.

I worked hard at becoming a professional football player, just like society says you should. It said you had to be fierce. I was fierce. Tough. I was tough.

If we're not on them, they go back to their old ways.

The bottom line is that these athletes tend to be safer investments because they really value their marketing opportunities. They don't make as much money as during their active careers.

My thing is trying to convince them they can win.

Anything that happens that's good, they think, Oh, it's an accident, when is the roof caving in? You've got to get them out of that mental framework.

The real reason for coming to Montour is my love and respect for football.

The painter knew that color was not something you controlled but something you set free. He believed that color knew its way home.

A chill December morning dawned, with rags and tatters of mist hanging on the trees like poor people’s washing.

I had received a t-shirt from my best friend Veronica at my police academy graduation. It reads, ‘Throw your donut in the opposite direction and the cops won’t get you.’ I love wearing that t-shirt.

The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.

If there's anything I think that you've seen about me, it's that I'm the rebellious girl.

But I care about the reader, and I'm trying to keep the reader's attention for as long as I can.

The thing about special teams - and I think football in general - is sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you.

I didn't want the life that made sense. Not if the chaos meant i could have Bella.

A wonderful story collection set between one place and another and shaped by a fearless sense of comedy.

That which exercises reason is more excellent than that which does not exercise reason; there is nothing more excellent than the universe, therefore the universe exercises reason.