Whether it's in the playoffs or not, you have to keep proving yourself.

Half is not enough protection, half is my fault and half is them just doing a good job. I know it's 150 percent, but I'm a little tired now.

It was just something normal in my family to play sports. It wasn't necessarily forced on us. It was just something we enjoyed.

I was always able to throw-it's not something I consciously worked on.

When you're battling for a job, you know that every day you've got to perform.

For a long time, I was more involved in basketball, baseball and golf. My parents didn't push me into football when I was a little kid, but they coaxed me into trying it as a 10th grader.

It's very rare that you just get stuck with the ball. You're going to get somebody open.

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

I think baseball has such a way of humbling you. You can go 20-for-20, and before you know it, you're going to go through an 0-for-30. It has that way of knocking you back down to earth.

As an economy measures performance in terms of the creation of money, people become a major source of inefficiency.

Comics were going down for the second time and here, all of a sudden, came this thing and for the next fifteen years, romance comics were about the top sellers in the field; they outsold everything.

My biggest regret is probably that it took me so long to find out what I want to do.

Everybody who wants to be in a band should be made to join the marines.

I think the most famous person I've ever met is Brad Pitt.

You paid for every second of beauty you managed to steal.

Surround yourself with love, not friends.

I am basically the sort of person who has stage-fright teaching. I kind of creep into a classroom. I'm not an anecdote-teller, either, although I often wish I were.