It was about being wanted, it was about winning, and it was about my passion for the game. I just loved it. I absolutely loved to compete and to step out onto that football field with my teammates.

Sportsmanship is making sure you have respect for the guy you're playing across from.

My legacy isn't about what I did playing football, but how I use the opportunities that came from playing football.

Charles Barkley, Clyde Drexler and I used to argue for hours about who the best athletes are. I thought football players were better overall.

Even though my mother had told me growing up that, 'If you win, nobody cares what color you are,' that wasn't necessarily true in the N.F.L.

Throughout my career, I was never able to relax; I always had to go on the field with another responsibility. I felt like I was playing, not just for my team, but for my race.

To me, being in your prime means playing your best and feeling your best, too.

In football, it's the ultimate team sport. You have to have good people around you as a quarterback for things to happen.

Quarterback is not a position that you come in having not played it your whole life.

I love basketball players for what they do for their size - so graceful.

I'm about a 160, 170 bowler so I feel like I'm pretty good - I'm average, but I don't stink, you know?

Most people are only doing the best that they know how to do.Blaming and holding grudges only brings more pain.

Do what you love and the money will follow.

Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.

I don't particularly like being angry about stuff. I'd rather hang out with my daughter and write my little books.

Dutch is not so much a language as an ailment of the throat.

There are no wild animals until man makes them so.

The art world, of all worlds, has room for everyone.

Christopher Reeve understood that everything begins with hope. His vision of walking again, his belief that he would be able to in his lifetime, towered over his broken body.

Silence is not silent. Silence speaks. It speaks most eloquently. Silence is not still. Silence leads. It leads most perfectly.

I am a passionate believer that comedy is a way of tackling some of the most dark and difficult aspects of being a human being.