It's very rare that you just get stuck with the ball. You're going to get somebody open.

Half is not enough protection, half is my fault and half is them just doing a good job. I know it's 150 percent, but I'm a little tired now.

It was just something normal in my family to play sports. It wasn't necessarily forced on us. It was just something we enjoyed.

I was always able to throw-it's not something I consciously worked on.

When you're battling for a job, you know that every day you've got to perform.

For a long time, I was more involved in basketball, baseball and golf. My parents didn't push me into football when I was a little kid, but they coaxed me into trying it as a 10th grader.

Whether it's in the playoffs or not, you have to keep proving yourself.

Strong people don't put others down. They lift them up and slam them on the ground for maximum damage.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

In the world to come they will not ask me "Why were you not Moses?" They will ask me "Why were you not Zusya?"

You can gain in your effectiveness as a politician from a wide acquaintance with the world and from a degree of independence that having some outside interests gives.

I like down-to-earth people.

What I love is how pissed off Jane Eyre is. She's in a rage for the whole novel and the payoff is she gets to marry this blind guy who's toasted his wife in the attic." -Angela Argo "Blue Angel

I believe only in art and failure.

What happened in the Western world was that Plato ceased to be the way people thought. Aristotle was rediscovered, and the modern, educated world moved toward Aristotelian thinking.

I think the classical music is on a dangerous downward slope, because it's not seeking strong enough resonance with its society.

Encouraging children to live healthy lifestyles is something I take very seriously.