So I'd rather have a defense that's successful where everyone's comfortable in their positions.

This is who I am. I'm not perfect. I don't want to try to be perfect.

Believe it and it will happen.

I think this can be a championship team. But we do have to take it one game at a time. You can't look at the end of the road before you get the next foot in.

The team that is the most focused and executes the best is the team that wins. That's usually the team that can handle the pressure of the situation.

You want to win and you want the [NFL] ring. But when you win and you get the ring, you never really wear it.

At the same time, it makes me feel like I have to prove myself to the new guys coming in as well as prove myself to the coaching staff, which is a good bit of motivation for me.

That's one of the great things about Thanksgiving: Football's on!

My hobbies and leisure activities include cars and golf.

If you're not the one cooking, stay out of the way and compliment the chef.

My craziest ambition is to take John Madden's job and salary.

To set their sufferings alongside the sufferings of another people was to compare them (which hell was worse?), demoting Sarajevo's martyrdom to a mere instance.

To avoid the pain of loss, give up attachment.

I started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love.

As a young man, you get to a point in your life where you feel like you have grown up and have to make decisions and not having that father figure in your life to guide you to making those decisions.

I've always known actors because my parents are actors on stage and so I lived in a very creative environment when I was a kid. All my life.

I always wanted to perform in some capacity since I was a kid - I was a ballerina, then a singer before acting.

I believe everyday your life speaks to you - through every experience, through the people you meet, and even through pain, fear and self-doubt.

Although the universe is under no obligation to make sense, students in pursuit of a Ph. D. are.

I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home.

The challenges we face are never as important as the challenges we face up to.