The NCAA is probably the most reprehensible organization God ever created.

Success is not only for the elite. Success is there for those who want it, plan for it, and take action to achieve it.

I'm not interested in trying to work on people's perceptions. I am who I am, and if you don't take the time to learn about that, then your perception is going to be your problem.

Teammates are there for each other even after the noise of the crowd is gone.

Make sure when anyone tackles you he remembers how much it hurts.

I don't deal in frustration. I'm a fighter. And everything I've ever gotten, I've had to fight for.

When you have a problem, rules don't solve your problem. It's caring and education.

A liberal will cut off your leg so he can hand you a crutch.

Lacrosse is probably the best sport I ever played.

I set my standards so high, no one could be harsher on me than I was.

Ya know, America's a great country. It's great because it allows you to fight. And you can win, if you have the stamina and tenacity.

Cowards are always much more dangerous than heroes.

The way to stay popular as a quarterback in the NFL is never to play.

The worst passion we mortals cherish is the desire to possess. Even when we know that our final destination is a hole not more than three feet square, we have the strongest craving

Apparently, I'm very, very popular in jails. They often ask me to come and speak.

Slavery is the parent of ignorance, and ignorance begets a whole brood of follies and vices; and every one of these is inevitably hostile to literary culture.

God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.

I'm in love with the person in the sandwich centre. If she didn't exist I'd have to invent her.

A tree Cannot grow In its parents' shadows.

I am from the working class. I am now what I was then. No amount of balsamic vinegar and Prada handbags could make me forget what it was like to be poor.

I shot Barton Fink in July and moved out to LA that fall. The movie came out in the spring and it was a year before I got Wings.