My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something that I knew, if I made the NFL, I would financially have the ability to do.

If you do the bare minimum, expect bare minimum results. You want to be great, work to be great. Nothing just happens

Success isn't owned. It's leased and rent is due every day.

Some people chase money. Some people chase fame. Some chase greatness - and that's what I'm trying to do.

Greatness is earned, not given.

Heard someone say, 'I can't wait until I can finally say I've made it.' The day you think you've 'made it' is the day you begin your decline.

Right now, I am a football player and I will sacrifice whatever is necessary to be the best.

They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.

For the first time in history, my community has had to use air conditioners. Imagine that, air conditioners in the Arctic.

I have a limited amount of time to build a career out of football and be the best that I can be at this job. When this job is over, I have the rest of my life to do what I want with my time.

There is no idea so stupid or hackneyed that a sufficiently-talented writer can't get a good story out of it.

Any fool can marry, but only the wise live happily ever after.

Let your words be petty and actions plenty!

But who is ever fair in an argument?

I don't know a politician who enjoys fundraising. The system is such that the American people have lost faith.

I think, unfortunately or fortunately, the reality of Hollywood is that if your movie makes money, they'll make another one.

The Democrats have tried the war against women in the past. It didn't really have that much traction.

Character: the grandest thing in the world.

Atheism has no room for human rights.

Abetted by misguided or co-opted intellectuals, the rulers weave a cloak of legitimacy to disguise their theft and hence to ease their extraction of wealth from the rightful owners.

Thank God I had two parents who loved me enough to stay on my case.