You know, it's a different deal - throwing a football as opposed to throwing a baseball.

That's the only reason I'm here. I don't need to play the game for any other reason than to win a championship.

I kind of picked up the game at an early age. The way that other kids would learn what a fork or a spoon is.

You want hot days to get your fruit ripe but then you want it to cool off nicely at night so that the grapes stay on the vine longer and develop complexity.

I retire with a smile on my face, in good health, and ready to spend autumns at my kids' games instead of my own. I'm excited to start the next chapter of my life.

I had a great career and I enjoyed all of it, with the exception of losing.

I'm not fast. But there are a lot of guys that are a hell of a lot slower than I am. Somebody wants to do a pay-per-view race between me and [Tom] Brady, sign me up.

The amount of work and the amount of both physical and emotional investment it takes to get to the top.

I feel pretty good when I get out of bed in the morning. I don't feel all beat up, which is nice.

Playing in New England and the Boston area, the fans are so passionate about their sports if you don't play well, they'll let you know so I know it's not something that they take lightly.

We're phenomenally blessed in the Walla Walla Valley. We have great, complex soil that's nutrient-rich but fairly porous.

People think they are not satisfied with what they have but in true sense they are not satisfied with what they are.

Liza, I love you more than any words can say. You have made me a complete person. You are everything to me. And I cannot think of living life without you. And I love you forever.

The first thing I know, I'm in a card game. Then I'm in a crap game.

Oh, time is short and the days are sweet and passion rules the arrow that flies.

It is only in the shadows, when some fresh wave, truly original, truly creative, breaks upon the shore, that there will be a rediscovery of the West.

Become my friend and you embrace a nightmare.

I'm sick of being self-referential. I don't want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal.

our present picture of physical reality, particularly in relation to the nature of time, is due for a grand shake up

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

I'm addicted to silence and privacy; I wallow in it.