The New York Times Bestseller 'The Amateur,' written by Ed Klein, former editor of the 'New York Times Magazine,' is one of the best books I've read.

Winning means being unafraid to lose.

You know, quarterbacks, I think greatness in quarterbacks is taking what you've got, whether it's a great team, a good team, or a struggling team and make them better.

It's perfectly okay to want to quit - as long as you don't.

Leadership must be demonstrated, not announced.

The failure to be perfect does not mean you are not a success; it is giving your best that helps you to understand the joy of receiving.

If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.

You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?

Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want

In sports, teams win and individuals don't.

I discovered that the more I hustled, the luckier I seemed to get.

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its stud

In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more, so I thought I should be some sort of a scholar.

My mom was a musician, and my dad had this passion for music. That's kind of how a lot of their relationship was built. When I came around, I was constantly exposed to music.

I liked this girl in my sixth grade class. I dared her to kiss me -- but she didn't!

Description needs to slide into a story like a snake through grass - silently, almost invisibly, without calling attention to itself. It should enrich every story moment without slowing the action.

Simplicity is a strict taskmaster.

He let his mouth linger on mine, neither possessively nor sweetly... like his mouth just belonged there on mine. And he was right. It did. It always had.

Hüzün does not just paralyze the inhabitants of Instanbul, it also gives them poetic license to be paralyzed.

I just pretended I was someone else until that someone else became me.

Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.