My parents do a lot of things behind the scenes that go unnoticed.

Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.

You cannot make progress with excuses.

You don't go into the game to compete. You go into each game to win.

Not to sound arrogant, but what I did in one year, others couldn't do in their entire collegiate careers.

I see the light at the end of the tunnel, so I'm going hard.

I'm a living testimony that anything is possible.

I'm an example of why people deserve second chances.

A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.

It's no secret that I am not afraid to shine bright and be festive, and I like to encourage that in others.

I see myself not only as a football player, but an entertainer and icon.

Never a horse that can’t be rode and never a rider that can’t be throwed. (I’ll pass this off as my own, but I really stole it from my father, a cowboy and rodeo rider in his younger years.)

What we search for in fiction is not so much reality, but the epiphany of truth.

Just listen to your body, eat in silence and see what feels good and you will spontaneously choose the foods that are beneficial to you.

I want to be remembered as a person who kept it real, who did what he wanted to do, but never did nothing stupid and never tried to offend nobody else. I'm always being myself.

Religion as a whole specializes in sin management. It's all about organizing humanity in such a way that we cause as little damage as possible.

The Golden Gate Bridge should have a long bungee cord for people who aren't quite ready to commit suicide but want to get in a little practice.

any writer is inevitably going to work with his own anxieties and desires. If the book is any good it has got to have in it the fire of a personal unconscious mind.

A good character is something you must make for yourself. It cannot be inherited from parents.

I really want to work with Tom Hardy. Christian Bale and Russell Crowe are also on my list. Those are my top three actors. As far as actresses go, Kate Beckinsale, because she's so smokin' hot.

Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.