Baseball was my first sport. I wish I would have stayed with it.

The goals and expectations that people have for me are pretty high, but ... if I were to have to compare their expectations to mine, I would say mine are ten times higher.

This is my calling, this is why I was put on this earth-to make a difference in people's lives.

I am my own biggest critic ... I'm constantly criticizing myself, constantly trying to find ways to better myself and ... compete and, you know, just be the best.

Taking care of my parents is one of the things that I want to do, just give them some of the things that we never had a chance to have. It's all about remembering where I came fromt.

I feel like it's God's plan for me to play football and make a difference in people's lives.

First and foremost, I'm a running back. That's how I perceive myself.

I try to focus on practice. This is work time. This is where we work, this is our office. I try not to let it distract me too much.

I play football, and most football players are camera shy. We just want to be left alone; we just want to stick to what we do.

The history says quarterbacks get paid more than running backs, but I think it depends on the caliber of the player - what you're getting, not just what the position is.

It takes great courage to write great books. Find your courage and find your voice.

On the still calm waters of surrender, the reflections of clarity appear.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

To mention only contemporaries, Delacroix, Corot, Millet, Rousseau, Courbet are masters. And finally [I like] all those [painters] who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.

I love memoirs and autobiographies in general.

I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer.

Clothing should be like food. There should never be a $5000 sweater. You know what should cost $5000? A car.

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

Naples sitteth by the sea, keystone of an arch of azure.

Be an opener of doors