I've always viewed myself as an achiever. I need to achieve for myself.

Things are never as good as you think they are or ever as bad as you think they are.

Losing doesn't eat at me the way it used to. I just get ready for the next play, the next game, the next season.

Just remember that nothing is as bad as it seems and nothing is as good as it sometimes appears.

12 of the best years of my life - It will never be forgotten.

No excuse for those mechanical errors to be happening.

I know how difficult my rookie year in the NFL was and I know how competitive this sport is.

For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.

Life can be short and it’s meant to be cherished and treasured—every second, every moment. Now, I’ll love harder. I’ll love fiercer. And I will not be afraid.

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth where moth and rust doth corrupt and where thieves break through and steal.

A trust-in the sense of a valuable asset placed in the care of someone to whom it does not ultimately belong-captures, more or less, my understanding of what it is to have a child.

She would buy magic every day of the week. Love me, that face said. I'm so lonely, so desperate. I'll give you whatever you want.

There has to be a moment when you choose happiness, when you stand up, raise your face towards the sun, and just grab joy and put it in a place where no one can ever take it away from you.

You know, Roland and I were just talking about how we don't have any pyromaniac friends. And everyone knows you need a good pyro to pull off any reform school prank worth the effort.

You've got to be a believer in what you do.

The necklace is the anchor; it's the classification of jewelry that says what the whole idea is about.

I was 4 and dictating stories into a tape recorder, and my mom typed them up.