In order to gain the respect of your players in the locker room, you can't just perform on Saturday. You have to do it consistently during practices, meetings, and in the weight room.

You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast.

I'm afraid of being average. I have a real fear of being just another linebacker.

No excuses and no sob stories. Life is full of excuses if you're looking. I have no time to gripe over misfortune. I don't waste time looking back.

I'm not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you'll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf all day in Oceanside. It ain't going to happen.

I get paid to practice. I play the game for free.

I had parents who instilled in me the importance of love, morals and hard work. I give God all the glory because he has brought me through so much.

Leadership comes with consistency.

The past isn't going to get you to your goal.

I'm not afraid to fail. I'm afraid to be mediocre.

I want to be the best. That's just the human way.

Self-awareness mind helps you build on your strengths and improve on your weaknesses.

The way of the world is to praise dead saints and persecute living ones.

Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.

Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.

Satan is the master distracter. He is always working to keep us off track in our walk with God.

Kids are like buckets of disease that live in your house.

If I'm tired of me, I'm sure the public is as well.

You gave me your curse, holy Fathers. I give you a blessing: May you be as moral and religious as I am.

The world is speaking to you every day, you just don't know how to listen.

I was disappointed to leave Spurs, but quite pleased that I did.