Meaningless yards are not meaningful.

If I stop pushing you, if I stop demanding of you, if I stop getting on you, then I probably don't think you have much to offer.

You never stay the same. You either get better or you get worse.

Mike, did you ever see the movie 'Cast Away?' In that movie, Tom Hanks' only friend was a ball named Wilson. In this game, Russell Wilson's only friend is a football.

Anything goes on any given Sunday, especially Monday Night.

Mike, the best band to ever come out of Seattle was, of course, Pearl Jam. And that's what I expect the Seahawks to do - just jam it up the middle.

I'm not thinking about coaching, I'm thinking about heading to Washington, watching the world champions and my brother coach

The Seahawks defense has to go balls deep to win this game.

Follow the ball, man. There's only one ball. They can only give it to one of them at a time, so let's not get too far away from the reality of it all.

You know what I hate, man? Guys that you know haven't seen the film: they just quote a bunch of statistical bullshit.

I bet you like sitting at red lights.

Better to suffer than to die.

Obviously, in dealing with a relationship, sexuality has to be involved, and jealousy and emotions like that. And I don't know, I've always been intrigued by those emotions.

A divorcee is a women who got married so she didn't have to work, but now works so she doesn't have to get married.

I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes.

We begin by loving and accepting ourselves.

You may strive to be like them but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

English? Who needs that? I'm never going to England.

Too often, people forget the basic fact of life: all those good things we enjoy come from the ache in [our] backs and the willingness to shoulder great personals risks.

I was nine when I first knew I wanted to be a writer, in particular, a poet.

Health is beauty, and the most perfect health is the most perfect beauty.