The Lord is first, my friends are second, and I am third.

There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.

I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.

We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.

I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.

Football is a very short-term proposition. Football really prepares you for nothing. The only thing I got out of football was the ability to work hard, and that's it.

Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.

Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will make heroes of us all.

When you step onto that field, you cannot concede a thing.

I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.

I have no idea what I did. I heard people talk about dead leg, shake, change of pace and all that, but I did things without thinking about them.

Stop assuming I don't have any emotions. My inner thoughts might not be easily seen on my face. I do think and feel.

Some of your hurts you have cured And the sharpest you still have survived But what torments of grief you endured From the evil which never arrived.

The aim of all education is, or should be, to teach people to educate themselves.

... any men who would give up the law-making power to women in order to remedy existing evils, would surely be those most ready to enact the needful laws themselves.

Excess weakens the spirits.

In The Greens Are Gone, I play a character that's bipolar, so that was a big step and quite a challenge.

I don't see the point in being a star - it takes a lot of energy to carry yourself off as being more perfect than somebody else. I'd rather just be available with all my weaknesses.

The bureaucrat fell from the sky.

The only accounting we had of the origins and the structure of nature was Biblical Genesis.

Acting never crossed my mind for a moment when I was growing up.