Well I would say that we're regular people first of all and we're normal and it's obvious by some of the things that have happened just because our name is famous we're not immune to tragedy.

Every game I've ever played, regardless if it was pre-season or Super Bowl, meant the same to me, and I laid it all on the line.

Life deals you a lot lessons, some people learn from it, some people don't.

Most talented players don't always succeed. Some don't even make the team. It's more what's inside.

If you grew up in a household with a football coach who looks like a drill sergeant, you would think you would be tough.

I've always been a Packer, always will be a Packer.

If I'm going to play, it's going to be 100-percent commitment.

You're never guaranteed about next year. People ask what you think of next season, you have to seize the opportunities when they're in front of you.

Wisconsin's a special place.

I've always shown up, always been prepared. Everything I do comes back to the example I want to set.

So much of a professional athlete's success depends upon not necessarily the play itself but how he deals with... always saying how you deal with good, is just as important as how you deal with bad.

You need to discover something that will impact humanity.

We will need to find people who will provide a safe writing space for us, where criticism comes late and love and delight come early.—from Rumors of Water: Thoughts on Creativity & Writing

Man lives consciously for himself, but serves as an unconscious instrument for the achievement of historical, universally human goals.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

Making excuses is not going to get me any closer to my goals.

People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city.

I can tell you that God is alive because I talked to him this morning.

I'm proud to be involved with Simon Cowell and 'X Factor.

There is no need to search for global solutions, apart from an absolute necessity to destroy the idea that such things exist.

I'm gonna perform on one of the nights. Good clean fun; we're not going to jail. For the record.