Throughout my career, I was never able to relax; I always had to go on the field with another responsibility. I felt like I was playing, not just for my team, but for my race.

Sportsmanship is making sure you have respect for the guy you're playing across from.

It was about being wanted, it was about winning, and it was about my passion for the game. I just loved it. I absolutely loved to compete and to step out onto that football field with my teammates.

My legacy isn't about what I did playing football, but how I use the opportunities that came from playing football.

Charles Barkley, Clyde Drexler and I used to argue for hours about who the best athletes are. I thought football players were better overall.

Even though my mother had told me growing up that, 'If you win, nobody cares what color you are,' that wasn't necessarily true in the N.F.L.

To me, being in your prime means playing your best and feeling your best, too.

In football, it's the ultimate team sport. You have to have good people around you as a quarterback for things to happen.

Quarterback is not a position that you come in having not played it your whole life.

I love basketball players for what they do for their size - so graceful.

I'm about a 160, 170 bowler so I feel like I'm pretty good - I'm average, but I don't stink, you know?

There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from every sky.

In Texas, we hold very dear to intrusions against our personal liberty. We fight very hard against that.

Every photograph is a fake from start to finish.

Even the worst comic is at least somewhat entertaining, if only in a pathological way, for five minutes.

You can't handle the truth!

I think women directors have to be really tenacious.

The flatterer does not think highly enough of himself or of others.

We have to start from the fact that there are always alternatives to violence.

Yeah, yeah, I've been Beatled, I've been Rolling Stoned.

The world is as good as you are. You've got to learn to like yourself first.