I'm a Jewish boy from Jersey. I was born with a strong sense of right and wrong, and a strong sense that the world can be a ludicrous, unfair, inhumane place.

The reason of football is not to be the best but to be the best team

Maybe a good rule in life is never become too important to do your own laundry.

See God gave us the talent, but the devil make us famous.

I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that.

My mother was a huge influence on me. She was a living example of what a Christian should be. Her conviction, her discipline. She would rather see other people happy than herself.

One of the flabby lines you hear sometimes is, 'Speak truth to power'. Power knows the truth. It's speaking the truth to yourself that's the challenge.

My desire to exit the game is greater than my desire to remain in it. I have searched my heart through and through and feel comfortable with this decision.

I quit because I didnt feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the game.

I don't dream football. I dream the American Dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father.

Life doesn't stop with football.

I refrain from lots of things I love, like cheese and carbs. I eat plenty of greens every day, my favorite being watercress.

Rugby may have many problems, but the gravest is undoubtedly that of the persistence of summer.

I have always smoked and drunk and loved too much. In fact I have lived not too long but too much. One day the Iron Crab will get me. Then I shall have died of living too much.

We are being governed by the dregs of the nation - and their brutality is so capricious that no one can feel certain that he will be safe tomorrow.

Justice denied anywhere diminishes justice everywhere.

Of course, everyone wants to be mythologized in a great way.

I've been thinking a lot about folks denying what has happened in history, or just not acknowledging it.

I'm learning a lot by reading teachers like Thich Nhat Hanh, Pema Chodron. They teach me because I feel like I have a responsibility to the communities that I speak to.

The magnificent cause of being, The imagination, the one reality In this imagined world.

I get my sense of humor from my parents. That's why they don't have one anymore.