I think every year you're in the NFL you probably lose three or five years off your lifespan.

Ever since I was a kid I've always loved history. I think that kind of catapulted things, but I would say the two major factors were maybe 9/11 and the election of Barack Obama.

To me probably the biggest disappointments, as far as a football career goes, is I feel like I didn't live up to my potential, and I didn't win a Super Bowl ring.

I think that we do have a great country, but there's a lot of things that we're not so great at. Unfortunately, education is one of them.

It's like, 'Wow. Yes, I had fun... but damn, was it really all worth it when I'm in a wheelchair at the age of 45 and can't play with my grandkids?'

I don't know what the NFL's going to look like in 15 years. Who knows. It's a great game; it's done a lot for me in my life.

Player safety is definitely something that has to be at the top of the list. I think that the union and the NFL are doing all they can to make sure they're protecting the players the best they can.

Dreams are an insight into our psychology: they are what we are, but stripped of the conventions and norms of psychology, and the rules of the physical world…

Discrimination does not 'make America great.' It makes America weak.

What compels me to write now is the same as all those years ago. It is the love of writing and storytelling, driven by a desire to escape.

I feel I'm two people: I have my interest in acting and I have a lot of other political interests I'd like to pursue.

The world is more than a game of cards. History is more than a record of gambling operations.

The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.

Nothing is true, but that which is simple.

Man is the only religious animal. In the Holy task of smoothing his brother's path to the happiness of heaven, he has turned the globe into a graveyard.

Never Hesitate to hold out your hand; never hesitate to accept the outstretched hand of another.

Every need brings in what's needed. Pain bears its cure like a child.