There are guys who want to shoot the last shot and others who want to pass off. I want that last shot.

You try to stay within the rules for the sake of the game, but you can always turn up the intensity.

Steroids are for guys who want to cheat opponents.

I'm a cocky sumb**itch. That's what makes me such a great player.

Football is not a game for the weak of heart, because every day you've got a hundred reasons to take all those pads off and say, 'F-k it.'

Cocaine is totally different than steroids.

If they play dirty, then you play dirty.

You can't tell them anything, but hopefully they will learn from the example and won't have to go through it.

Taking them out of the picture, so to speak, what football really is, the savagery, the core root of football, it doesn't change. It really puts the real in football.

And I tell ya, when I sit in that sound booth and started reading the script and starting to get into the character, man, it's an easy jump for me, because I understand what it's all about.

But every day I tell my story, and be comfortable with my story and be comfortable with what I've done, and what I did, and how I am today, it lessens the likelihood it will ever happen.

So go back to the books. They will comfort you and cheer you. If you earnestly work with them, neither sorrow nor anxiety nor distress nor suffering need trouble your mind any more, no, not evermore.

Fame does different things to different people. For some people it makes them a better person.

What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.

As Mark Twain said, 'I love Wagner -- if only they'd cut out all that damned singing!'

Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.

I'm from Wisconsin; well, that's where I went to school from, like, sixth grade till I graduated high school.

You can't put this possum in a cage

Sometimes when I'm really enjoying a book, I'll read a sentence or paragraph and just think - how can someone's head be wired in such a way that they'd come up with that?

I had weird dreams full of barnyard animals. Most of them wanted to kill me. The rest wanted food.

Rapidity is the essence of war: take advantage of the enemy's unreadiness, make your way by unexpected routes, and attack unguarded spots.