Once I decided football was the way for me, there was no looking back. Nothing was going to distract me.

I have two secret weapons -- my legs, my arms and my brain.

I'm willing to deal with the consequences and accept responsibility for my actions.

You only get one shot at a second chance.

If it's meant to be for you, it's going to happen.

I know I'm good. I know I got game.

People respect me; I respect them. I'll never change. I realize who I am.

Use me as an example of an instrument of change.

I don't think the NFL has ever seen the likes of me, a quarterback who moves the way I do and throws the way I do. I'm not saying that with arrogance or anything. That is just how I feel.

It's good to have critics because that's what motivates you and helps you take your game to another level.

Sports kept me off the streets. It kept me from getting into what was going on, the bad stuff.

Never step on caterpillars, as one day, they'll become butterflies and you'll never know when you'll need a ride on their wings of fortune.

Love and adventure are life's condiments.

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology.

Belonging to oneself--the whole essence of life lies in that.

What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!

The proper end of teaching is to lead our students toward autonomy.

It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.

The difference between film and theater is that in film, an actor is sort of under a magnifying glass and everything that they do, just the smallest movement, is very detectible.

But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.