When you step onto that field, you cannot concede a thing.

The Lord is first, my friends are second, and I am third.

There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.

I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.

We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.

I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.

Football is a very short-term proposition. Football really prepares you for nothing. The only thing I got out of football was the ability to work hard, and that's it.

Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.

Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will make heroes of us all.

I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.

I have no idea what I did. I heard people talk about dead leg, shake, change of pace and all that, but I did things without thinking about them.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived.

I can't complain about my life. I have a really nice life. I have a great family and I live in a gorgeous part of the country.

i was perhaps an egotist in youth, but i soon found it made me morbid to think too much about myself

Whenever I started writing music, it just naturally led itself there. As I started to tell my story, it's where my home was. It's just a very natural choice.

I prefer not to eat food that has a face.

I'm not great with money. I'd go crazy if I were left to my own devices. My mum and girlfriend sort it out. I'm not driven by it, but I love to be generous.

The most interesting painting is one that expresses more of what one thinks than of what one sees

A professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution [the University of Virginia]

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Not dancing well, I never danced at all--and how grievously has my heart ached when others where in the full enjoyment of that conversation which I had no right even to partake.