It was the family tradition. I wanted to live up to the name-McNair.

When I get on the field, I feel unstoppable.

I'm proud of where I come from. A lot of people leave Mississippi, and their claim to fame is somewhere else. But I have so many moral values that made me the person I am now.

With the physical mindset I play the game with, I expect to get hurt.

Pressure is what you make of it. It makes me play harder.

The tide has changed. You have to be able to improvise in today's NFL.

I actually enjoy the pain. That's what gives me the fire inside to get up and keep going.

I've never believed anyone could put more pressure on me than I put on myself. People expect great things from me. I expect great things from myself.

I want people to say when No. 9 was out on the field, he did everything humanly possible to win a ballgame.

I think I've always had the abilities, but the object has been to perform as well as I can.

The sense of urgency is real for me, because the window of opportunity is closing. Gotta get back to the Super Bowl, gotta get back there and win it.

If I was meant to be controlled, I would have come with a remote.

For of this world one never sees enough and to dine in harmony with nature is one of the gentlest and loveliest things we can do.

As we all know, there is no harder or more rewarding job than being a mom.

It's a grave mistake in publishing, whether you're talking about Internet or print publication, to try to play to a limited repertoire of established reader interests.

For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing.

Training to become champion is the toughest thing. The fight itself is just a test.

To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.

I am a little bit of a foul mouth and I just like to give it back to people.

I actually don't think that there is a connection between the survival instinct and a hunger for immortality.