The Madden Curse has really taken on a life of its own. People just love talking about it, and it is what it is, but I look at it as a challenge

Anyone can see the adversity in a difficult situation, but it takes a stronger person to see the opportunity.

Never let anyone in life tell you that you can't have something that you are willing to work for.

I can't get through the gate. The gate is narrow.

Sometimes all you need is just for somebody to believe in you in order to be able to accomplish maybe what you never thought you could.

Think about winning the day... if you are worried about the mountain in the distance, you might trip over the molehill right in front of you.

You can always be a little bit better.

There's always a little bit of personal satisfaction when you prove somebody wrong.

My No. 1 priority, and it always has been this, is keeping our team together and making sure we have the right guys in the right positions to make a run at this for a long time.

Each and every year I feel like I've gotten a little bit better and that's always been my goal, was just to get a little bit better

It has been an interesting road, but I wouldn't trade any of it for the world, because I feel like all of those instances in my life I felt molded me and strengthened me and made me who I am.

I can dream, though - can't I, for myself? Even if you have not the imagination or the soul?

If you let it bother you, it will bother you.

Well, have you ever thought of bathing?' I asked, turning away. 'No one wants to hire a wizard who smells worse than their outhouse. And who knows what creatures are living in that hair?

Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did.

I'm really a clean-cut kid.

I jerk off inside books, and give life to words, leaving concepts stuck together you've probably never heard

Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit.

Liberals exploit weakness; conservatives offer strength.

Heres the problem: Journalists just dont understand their business.

But the fact is, most people are not going to be rich someday.