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?'

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.

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.

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

Thus it had come about that she had read far more fiction, and far more poetry, those two sanctuaries of the lonely, than most of her kind.

Even in my own time and in my own life, I have witnessed a revolution.

I suppose that one of my greatest problem lays in the fact that I have assumed a blessing to be something that is mine for the taking, verses being something that by sheer exposure to it takes me.

I think we all [americans] think we're a special country. But the question is, what - what call does that give us?

It is well for us to pause, to acknowledge our debt to those who paid so large a share of freedom's price.

Some people believe they are winners, others believe they are losers. And they are both right.

The report of my illness grew out of his (James Clemens) illness. The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Yeah, that's a good point.

Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.

In the absence of good scientific data about the effects of artificial hallucinogens it's good to stick to the natural ones.