You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast.

I'm afraid of being average. I have a real fear of being just another linebacker.

No excuses and no sob stories. Life is full of excuses if you're looking. I have no time to gripe over misfortune. I don't waste time looking back.

I'm not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you'll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf all day in Oceanside. It ain't going to happen.

I get paid to practice. I play the game for free.

I had parents who instilled in me the importance of love, morals and hard work. I give God all the glory because he has brought me through so much.

In order to gain the respect of your players in the locker room, you can't just perform on Saturday. You have to do it consistently during practices, meetings, and in the weight room.

Leadership comes with consistency.

The past isn't going to get you to your goal.

I'm not afraid to fail. I'm afraid to be mediocre.

I want to be the best. That's just the human way.

I think any parent that makes their kid sit at a piano against their will and practice, they're going to have a kid that's not going to want to play the piano.

If food did not exist it would be well-nigh impossible to get certain types off the phone, as one would be unable to say, 'Look, I've got to run but let's have dinner sometime soon.'

One day, I'll stop making weird faces in pictures. But not today.

Today, the Ravens answered: What is our identity? 'We are the same old team. We can play the same style of football.

There were few who preferred honor to money.

I think it is important to be present in the places where you are working. It is not only about doing a project, but following the project through its construction.

You give the money where you want it.

A lot of underground hip-hop will inspire me as far as rhyme patterns - really wordy, intelligent lyrics.

When she read just now to James, 'and there were numbers of soldiers with kettledrums and trumpets,' and his eyes darkened, she thought, why should they grow up, and lose all that?

When Wellington thrashed Bonaparte, As every child can tell, The House of Peers, throughout the war, Did nothing in particular, And did it very well