The Houston Astrodome was kind of a tough field.

Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it - you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.

And so, it's not a thing of how many carries, but were you effective when you did carry.

When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you.

All I wanted to be was a player.

But, as always, Mr. Rooney would come over and shake your hand and congratulate you on a good game, no matter what the situation was.

And, coaching has never been an option for me.

I really don't look at comparing things that way because even in a 14-game season, there could be a running back who could have a lot more carries than other running backs.

Jack Lambert is mean and relentless wherever he goes, on and off the field! I do remember many times he would chase me in practice but no way would I let him catch me.

Once that was over, I knew that my ties to a football organization would be over because I never wanted to coach or be in the front office.

After 12 years, the old butterflies came back. Well, I guess at my age you call them moths.

Compassion is like mother giving love to her children. Mother’s ways are higher than others, even when everyone rejects, mother accepts with her arms open and wide.

In the world a man lives in his own age in solitude in all ages.

Man is a slow sloppy and brilliant thinker the machine is fast accurate and stupid.

Like every writer, I am asked where my work originates, and if I knew I would go there more often to find more.

We've got the catalog, now we just have to figure it out. It's not going to be one gene. It's going to be an accumulation of changes.

I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

[Religious liberty was] in its nature an inalienable right ... because the opinions of men, depending only upon the evidence contemplated by their minds, cannot follow the dictates of other men.

Sometimes you have to give up on people. Not because you don't care, but because they don't.

I'm aware that, from the outside, this looks like I've got quite an ego.

Some people have jobs where other people don’t clap for them. I don’t understand that.