I don't take a day off. I don't slack. All I know is hard-nose football. There ain't no breaks or vacations for me.

My thing has always been, sit down with me for an hour and base your judgments off that. That's all I ask. Don't go by what you read in the paper or hear in the streets.

Maybe I was little bit more aggressive than the average kid.

I take all the negatives and try to turn it into a positive.

I just want to be in a winning situation. That's the whole thing. It's nothing financial.

When it gets easy, I worry about things.

My whole motto is get four yards, and if I get more than four, that's fine.

I think I'm a man that's basically misunderstood.

I would prefer to be in a place where I'm appreciated.

You want to be around guys that you share the same goal with and guys who are thirsty and ready to hunt and get victories.

I'm just going about my business. Am I going to bend over backwards to assure everybody that I'm a good guy? No, I'm not going to do it.

The act of creation, the impetus to undertake it, is always some kind of feeble attempt to understand one’s own creation, the nature of creation itself.

And why do English people sound smarter than the rest of us? Like they should be awarded the Nobel Prize for a simple greeting?

I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning - organize.

In the deaf community, in order to play a role of someone with a hearing loss... you have to have hearing loss.

I was right then, I'm right now. I think time has proven me right.

Can anyone alter fate? All of us combined... or one great figure... or someone strategically placed, who happens to be in the right spot. Chance. Accident. And our lives, our world, hanging on it.

Everybody grows but me.

But something, somehow, had made all these paths converge. You couldn't find it on a checklist, or work it into the equation. It just happened.

You can't just turn your heart off like a faucet; you have to go to the source and dry it out, drop by drop.

The best way to improve children's performance in the classroom may be to take them out of it.