When you're an elite athlete, it's a very special moment in time and you don't want it to end.

The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

Perception is reality. If you are perceived to be something, you might as well be it because that's the truth in people's minds.

My dad, like any coach, has always stressed the fundamentals. He taught me responsibility, accountability, and the importance of hard work.

I always felt like hanging around the pocket was trouble, but the truth is, the great players take the beatings in the pocket and expose themselves -- and that is the real risk.

A running quarterback, to me, is safer. Because, once I got out [of the pocket], I didn?t run where there were a lot of people. I ran where there was nobody.

The principle is competing against yourself.

I may yet move [from Nashville], and where would I move if not Texas or New Mexico? I couldn't afford a home in California. I need to travel out of there occasionally.

I was made to go to church and I heard the gospel songs, and every now then somebody would come through with a guitar and that was a thrill!

The wins and losses are over for Rice, the football player, who leaves with 38 NFL records. He was the easiest guy in the world to throw the football to, ... You always knew where he was headed.

I will be a missionary in a remote village at some point.

A person who values their goals actually values their achievements.

Eventually the real world intruded again, and Sophie had to return to campus—woefully behind on homework, but incandescently in love.

That is happiness: to be dissolved into something completely great.

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?

Unless someone truly has the power to say no, they never truly have the power to say yes.

We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism -- a Mongoloid metaphysic.

There is a source within us that always works to bring things into the light.

I'm glad the President finally found an economic development program. I'm just sad that it's only in Baghdad.

People write to me all the time, and I write back.

There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.