It actually took me a year to learn how to play running back - to understand what they were doing defensively and then what our guys were doing every single play.

Love yourself. Respect yourself. Never sell yourself short. Believe in yourself regardless of what people think. You can accomplish anything, absolutely anything, if you set your mind to it.

That's the thing about fear. Death will kill you once, but fear kills you over and over and over, if you let it.

But Barry, to me, is head and shoulders above everybody.

At USC, if you're running back there, and you do gain you over 1,500 yards, people see you as a candidate, but not one of the top ones.

There are two types of players: those who know and those who don’t. The smartest ones usually play the longest and [are] usually the most successful.

I just think that we're capable of so much more; we don't utilize all our capacity like we should.

To be a winner of that, and to fall in the long line of traditional great backs at USC, to have your name in perpetuity, the fact that your parents are like icons... that's the greatest thing.

But there is something to the fact that we don't see games on the West Coast, or we don't see games on the East Coast, and stuff like that. It's so unfair, because there is a bias that takes place.

Even as voters, we try to keep up with the guys as much as possible, mainly through television or ESPN.

It's always hard - if you're not the best player on your team, how can you be the best player in college?

Friends ask you questions

Lies were something you told other people to make things easier, somehow - hopefully, for them, but often more selfishly for yourself.

I love her beyond reason.

Sometimes you gotta work a little, so you can ball a lot.

King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian.

Girls must be thwarted early in life.

It must be odd, being recognisable. I would hate to lose that anonymity. It happened for a while with 'Spooks.' No one notices me now.

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.

The best part about being a teacher is that it matters. The hardest part about being a teacher is that it matters every day.