If you're not the one cooking, stay out of the way and compliment the chef.

This is who I am. I'm not perfect. I don't want to try to be perfect.

Believe it and it will happen.

I think this can be a championship team. But we do have to take it one game at a time. You can't look at the end of the road before you get the next foot in.

The team that is the most focused and executes the best is the team that wins. That's usually the team that can handle the pressure of the situation.

You want to win and you want the [NFL] ring. But when you win and you get the ring, you never really wear it.

At the same time, it makes me feel like I have to prove myself to the new guys coming in as well as prove myself to the coaching staff, which is a good bit of motivation for me.

That's one of the great things about Thanksgiving: Football's on!

My hobbies and leisure activities include cars and golf.

My craziest ambition is to take John Madden's job and salary.

All camps are hard, that's what they're intended to be. They make you focus when you're tired, when you don't feel like doing things, and to see how long you can retain and pay attention.

The Bible said, as Chris quoted one memorable day, there was a time foreverything. I figured my time for happiness was just ahead, waitingfor me.

Keep being the author of your own story. Never let anyone else write it for you again.

As long as you allow your past to haunt you, you'll never be free to pursue your future. You won't even be able to focus on your present.

Umpiring, the only job in the world where you can screw up on a daily basis and still have one!

The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.

Joy is our goal, our destiny. We cannot know who we are except in joy. Not knowing joy, we do not know ourselves.

Everyone is right up there at the very brink of their pain limit.

I like being a mother. For some people, it's so much work that it can be a burden. But it's not for me, maybe because I had my daughter, Valentina, later on in life, at 41.

Despite the impression you may have from watching too much TV, movies are not about reproducing reality. Theyre about telling stories.

Bleaching my hair for Two Moon Junction... my hair was fried and I looked like an idiot.