I wrote the book not to prove people wrong but just to get the insight on who I am as a person.

If you align expectations with reality, you will never be disappointed.

Instead of me having a breakdown, I'm focusing on me having a breakthrough.

I think people change, but the media, they never allowed me to change. They never allowed me to be a better person

Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.

I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports.

I don't have no friends. I don't want no friends. That's how I feel.

I just feel like with God you can't be defeated.

People have doubted me and criticized me my whole life, and that's why I'm the way I am.

God blessed me to play football.

Jerry (Rice) played until he was 42. At 39, I ran a 4.43 40-yard dash. You look at the number of dropped balls and the way guys are playing now and you can't honestly say I can't do better.

I write to get ideas out of my head

If you love someone, they leave you. But if you don't love someone, they leave you, too. So your choice isn't between loving and losing but only between loving and not loving.

Angels, angels, always near, protecting you, my special dear!

I can't control how people are going to react. I try not to worry about what I can't control.

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.

some mornings... I sit at the kitchen table shaking salt into the hairs on my arm, and a feeling shoves up in me: it's finished. Everything went past without me.

The schools can't cover all the values that go along with how you handle your money. For example, a financial literacy class might not teach me to hate debt the way my grandmother, Big Mama did.

If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.

We can't live alone in any society. But the best way to help a society or group, is to be the best individual in it that we can be.

Some introverts are perfectly comfortable with public speaking; I'm not one of them.