There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.

The Lord is first, my friends are second, and I am third.

I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.

We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.

I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.

Football is a very short-term proposition. Football really prepares you for nothing. The only thing I got out of football was the ability to work hard, and that's it.

Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.

Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will make heroes of us all.

When you step onto that field, you cannot concede a thing.

I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.

I have no idea what I did. I heard people talk about dead leg, shake, change of pace and all that, but I did things without thinking about them.

Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in.

Who we are now is all that really matters.

It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realize what your own beliefs really are.

Hip-hop...has been the proverbial key that’s opened the door for me to roam this breathtaking planet.

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.

I said, 'I'll give myself two years. If I can't support myself as an actress within two years, then I'll go back to choreography.'

I've come close to death more times than Elizabeth Taylor has said 'I do.'

I'm a control freak and I like to be overprepared, and I'm overly organized and I'm not in the moment a lot of the time.

The contradictions the mind comes up against, these are the only realities, the criterion of the real. There is no contradiction in what is imaginary. Contradiction is the test of necessity.