The only team that believed in me was the Saints, and I feel like I owe them a great debt of gratitude. I want to give them what they saw in me-a guy who could lead this team to a championship.

Anyone can see the adversity in a difficult situation, but it takes a stronger person to see the opportunity.

Never let anyone in life tell you that you can't have something that you are willing to work for.

I can't get through the gate. The gate is narrow.

Sometimes all you need is just for somebody to believe in you in order to be able to accomplish maybe what you never thought you could.

Think about winning the day... if you are worried about the mountain in the distance, you might trip over the molehill right in front of you.

You can always be a little bit better.

There's always a little bit of personal satisfaction when you prove somebody wrong.

My No. 1 priority, and it always has been this, is keeping our team together and making sure we have the right guys in the right positions to make a run at this for a long time.

Each and every year I feel like I've gotten a little bit better and that's always been my goal, was just to get a little bit better

It has been an interesting road, but I wouldn't trade any of it for the world, because I feel like all of those instances in my life I felt molded me and strengthened me and made me who I am.

But, if you miss (the supposedly easy pin) by just a little bit, you're looking at the next putt from 30 feet. The ball just rolls away.

Advances are Made by Answering Questions. Discoveries are Made by Questioning Answers.

How many more idols must you find before you realize that you are the one you have been searching for?

I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already.

President Obama has two years left as president. I wouldn't be surprised if he gets to appoint two new Kardashian husbands.

Reverence is an attitude of honoring life. Reverence automatically brings forth patience. Reverence permits non-judgemental justice. Reverence is a perception of the soul.

It's just like Yeats said. In dreams begin responsibilities. Flip this around and you could say that where there's no power to imagine, no responsibility can arise.

His thoughts inhabit a different plane from those of ordinary men; the simplest interpretation of that is to call him crazy.

Do you think anybody knows that I'm Irish?

A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little.