My dad served 21 years and my mom did 13, so through that process, they taught me that I always have to give back.

I think if you're a good high school player that you have the ability to be a good college football player. If you're a good college football then you have the ability to be a great NFL player.

I like to think I'm pretty smart with what I was able to do academically, but whenever I get on the field I turn into the Incredible Hulk and I am unstoppable.

Football is football and talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference.

Hard work pays off - hard work beats talent any day, but if you're talented and work hard, it's hard to be beat.

In a land of freedom we are held hostage by the tyranny of political correctness.

You will find that success in life comes far easier when you maintain a cool head and a warm heart, rather than a hot head and cold feet.

There's a couple things you don't talk about in life, and that's race, religion and politics. I try to make sure I don't talk about politics at all.

It's always a lot more fun as a quarterback if you can do things you don't normally get to do. So if I can catch a pass and make a play for the team, that's what I'm willing to do.

A lot of people have already labeled me the Savior.

No one coaches what to do after three seconds, after the quarterback's broken the pocket or he's been in the pocket for five, six seconds.

Restaurants are minefields for the socially inept

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

Don't ask God to give you a light burden. Ask Him to give you strong shoulders to carry a heavy burden.

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring.

It was a long time ago now. And it was yesterday.

I choose not to think of my life as surviving, but coping.

I don't work from nature, I work like nature.

How slight a chance may raise or sink a soul!

The real is behind and beyond words, incommunicable, directly experienced, explosive in its effect on the mind. It is easily had when nothing else is wanted.