Like I always said, if I'm one of the top players in the game, pay me like I'm one of the top players in the game.

If you align expectations with reality, you will never be disappointed.

Instead of me having a breakdown, I'm focusing on me having a breakthrough.

I think people change, but the media, they never allowed me to change. They never allowed me to be a better person

Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.

I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports.

I don't have no friends. I don't want no friends. That's how I feel.

I just feel like with God you can't be defeated.

People have doubted me and criticized me my whole life, and that's why I'm the way I am.

God blessed me to play football.

Jerry (Rice) played until he was 42. At 39, I ran a 4.43 40-yard dash. You look at the number of dropped balls and the way guys are playing now and you can't honestly say I can't do better.

Can human folly harbour a more arrogant or ungrateful thought than the notion that whereas God makes man beautiful in body, man makes himself pure in heart?

it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.

There were worse things than dying, and those worse things happened to the people you left behind.

I trust that as He shall further open the way, I will be ready to walk therein, relying on His help and trusting in His goodness and wisdom.

Comedy holds the greatest risk for an actor, and laughter is the reward.

It isn't possible to love and to part.

Every year strips us of at least one vain expectation, and teaches us to reckon some solid good in its stead.

A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.

The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.

I have said it often and I will say it again: I believe you learn to read when you are young, then read to learn for the rest of your life.