In sports... you play from the time you're eight years old, and then you're done forever.

Winners, I am convinced, imagine their dreams first. They want it with all their heart and expect it to come true. There is, I believe, no other way to live.

When the game is over I just want to look at myself in the mirror, win or lose, and know I gave it everything I had.

Don't complain about not getting a chance and then be unprepared when you finally do.

Cause there's only one reason for doing anything that you set out to do. If you don't want to be the best, then there's no reason going out and trying to accomplish anything.

Confidence is a very fragile thing.

Yeah, it's nice to look up to people, but the more you try to be somebody else, the less you are of yourself.

Always be prepared to start.

Some guys practice like all-Americans but they can't play!

I started a business with two guys I played with, Ronnie Lott and Harris Barton: Champion Ventures, it's a fund of funds. We have $400 million or so under management.

Especially in football, it is not a QB's game... even though the media likes to make it into that - it takes the whole team.

Thoughts are nothing but cause and effect.

People are fond of saying this or that "changed my life." What they mean is something influenced their life. Only Jesus Christ--or WITSEC--can really change a life.

You know, how I deal with all my problems in a daily life, I'm tweeting shit.

She was drowning—in friendliness, in community—and she was starting to think she didn't want to get pulled out.

It is a wise child that knows his own father.

I believe that there is a bipartisan consensus to have individual mandates.

You know, people are basically shitty. It's when they prove it over and over again that it gets obnoxious.

Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves.

How sweet is rest after fatigue! How sweet will heaven be when our journey is ended.

Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool of silence.