My thing is trying to convince them they can win.

When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.

If I was smart enough to be a doctor, I'd be a doctor. I ain't, so I'm a football player.

We're a big check mark on everybody's schedule. I told them it's just another challenge; let's go after it.

I worked hard at becoming a professional football player, just like society says you should. It said you had to be fierce. I was fierce. Tough. I was tough.

If we're not on them, they go back to their old ways.

I want to be recognized as the best-no doubt about it. When they say all-pro middle linebacker, I want them to mean Butkus!

The bottom line is that these athletes tend to be safer investments because they really value their marketing opportunities. They don't make as much money as during their active careers.

Anything that happens that's good, they think, Oh, it's an accident, when is the roof caving in? You've got to get them out of that mental framework.

The real reason for coming to Montour is my love and respect for football.

I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.

If you talk about it, it's a dream, if you envision it, it's possible, but if you schedule it, it's real.

Courage, will-power and confidence in your abilities will carry you to greater heights.

My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor.

Discover what you love to do the most, and strengthen it.

Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best.

Unbuttered toast is a substance half complete, and to be forced to eat it in that state is necessarily to feel deprived.

I was supporting other people's creative dreams and I wasn't supporting my own. I didn't feel like I could really serve people having that kind of process within me.

There's nothing here to say good-bye to. There's no dancing girl. No mischievous smile. She's gone, off with her sisters, broken free, escaped. And if she were here now, she would say, "Go.