Charles Barkley, Clyde Drexler and I used to argue for hours about who the best athletes are. I thought football players were better overall.

Sportsmanship is making sure you have respect for the guy you're playing across from.

It was about being wanted, it was about winning, and it was about my passion for the game. I just loved it. I absolutely loved to compete and to step out onto that football field with my teammates.

My legacy isn't about what I did playing football, but how I use the opportunities that came from playing football.

Even though my mother had told me growing up that, 'If you win, nobody cares what color you are,' that wasn't necessarily true in the N.F.L.

Throughout my career, I was never able to relax; I always had to go on the field with another responsibility. I felt like I was playing, not just for my team, but for my race.

To me, being in your prime means playing your best and feeling your best, too.

In football, it's the ultimate team sport. You have to have good people around you as a quarterback for things to happen.

Quarterback is not a position that you come in having not played it your whole life.

I love basketball players for what they do for their size - so graceful.

I'm about a 160, 170 bowler so I feel like I'm pretty good - I'm average, but I don't stink, you know?

Storytelling keeps life going.

...the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy.

I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business and a mom who had been a ballet dancer, it was such a cliche.

The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.

I didn't know how serious it is to a female that you lift the lid.

Having a personal philosophy is like having a pet marmoset, because it may be very attractive when you acquire it, but there may be situations when it will not come in handy at all.

At 200 pounds, with a 17-inch neck, a resting pulse of 78, a bench press of 200 pounds, I was very much indeed a normal, All-American male. I carried my sickness within.

I have done hard jobs in the past, and acting isn't one of them.

At times the mirror increases a thing’s value, at times denies it.

Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night.