Life is short. You better get out there and do what you want to do while you can.

Leadership doesn't come from age.

Football is my love. Football is what I'm going to do. I'm a football player first.

Adversity in life teaches you.

I'm hungry. I want the ball. That's the feeling you want. When you get that feeling, you can't be stopped.

I've come to realize that the thing in life that's important, the reason we're all here, is to love and do well for each other.

I'm my own biggest critic. I'm the one who has to go home and look at myself in the mirror.

I don't like second place; I'm out there trying to win everything.

I was awful at football when I was a little kid. I didn't have the aggressiveness. I was just a nice kid. I didn't want to hurt anyone.

It doesn't matter that I play football. Anybody can make a difference in life.

It's important to me to be a complete player.

Dare to seek knowledge.

You know, " he said, his voice making me feel cold in spite of the heat, "this city can get ahold of you and pull you back no matter how hard you try to climb out. Like a grave.

It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.

If there is a fruit that can be eaten raw, it is beauty.

If you are smart, you never retire. You may retire from that job you have had for many years, but you will pick up another career for yourself of some type.

The majority never has right on its side.

Just the way in Europe, Paris, Copenhagen, and Stockholm, and Frankfurt, possibly and Berlin, certainly, all had important roles, because of independence. Because they were depending on themselves.

When you're really looking forward to something, you don't feel the sense of pressure.

I don't relax. My main relaxation is meeting illustrators and publishers in restaurants and bars.

I'm the queen of the nerds.