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

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.

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!

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 idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

We live in a very litigious society. I've never sued anybody. I certainly can imagine a situation where I might sue, but it seems more or less in bad taste.

All my cousins steal things. Theyre just a bunch of thieves. My whole family is like that. You put something down for a second, and they steal it. You never see it again.

The newspaper is a greater treasure to the people than uncounted millions of gold.

If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail.

If not one more cent in new aid money flowed [to Africa], we could with more urgency and efficiency and creativity be doing much more to take more people out of poverty.

I think getting stoned has made me buy a lot of bad albums, because when I'm stoned I think everything is amazing.

One of the most striking aspects of abstract art's appearance is her nakedness, an art stripped bare.

The young are often accused of exaggerating their troubles; they do so, very often, in the hope of making some impression upon the inertia and the immovability of the selfish old.

I was like, oh, I want to sign up for "Catwoman," and then Anne Hathaway had already signed up for it.