I believe if I stay tall and run up high, I can see better.

I don't give players a chance to hit me.

When they have their hands on their knees, that's when they're tired.

I believe if I stay tall and run up high, I can see better.

She told me I wasn't playing for the coach, I was playing for myself.

Most of the hits I take come on top of the shoulder pads.

I run upright mostly when I see daylight, so if you watch film you'll see I don't get hit in the chest much.

I'd love to be in the Hall of Fame one day and win Super Bowl rings, or even one... and stay healthy.

Anything will worry me. I may not get a check for the light bill off in time and I just get to worrying. I'm a worrywart.

I don't love football the way I once loved the game. I don't look at it as fun anymore, and it definitely used to be fun. A lot of the fun has been taken away from it, I guess, because you go through so much on the field and off the field.

I love being single. I can come and go as I please and stay out as late as I want to.

I love golf. But do you know how I got good at golf? Because of Charles Barkley. I was playing with Charles, Michael Jordan and Roy Green, and Charles was talking so much trash. On every shot, he was talking trash. So I left the tournament, and I went and practiced for a year and half.

I think I'm proudest of making my parents proud.

I was raised by my great-great aunt. I was adopted within our family. My mother had me when she was, I think, 15, 16. They tried to get her to have an abortion and she refused. So, my 'mama' adopted me, which was really her great aunt, which was really my great-great aunt, who was named Viola Dickerson. I was told that my mother was my sister.

I'll tell you one thing about me: I'm very private. I always have been private. People think I'm callous, arrogant. I didn't like the media attention.

I'm just not the outgoing bubble of energy. But if I know you, it's different. Practical jokes. Have fun. I'm not looking for any new friends. I got my friends.

I've stayed buddies with my old buddy Jackie Slater. I talk to Jackie Slater. I play golf with Marcus Allen a lot. I play golf with Marshall Faulk a lot. My buddy Craig Young, he lives up in New Mexico. I still talk to a lot of the guys.

In the NFL they talk about 'contracts,' but it's not really a contract, it's a one year agreement. If you have a 10 year contract, it means nothing. If you get cut in the NFL, you get nothing. People don't talk about that.

In the NFL, you have a short shelf life. As a running back, if you're the first pick, and you're NFL life expectancy is only 3.5-6 years, your first big contract might not come until three years in - well, you might never get there. They need to get those signing bonuses up front because nothing is guaranteed.

Playing the running back position, your legs, that's your living, that's how you make your living. You have to have great thighs, knees, everything.

Running is so natural to me. When I was running track, people used to ask me, 'When are you gonna start running hard?' The wind hits me in the face, and I feel so smooth... Man, I love to run!

The perfect fit for L.A. would be the St. Louis Rams. I really believe that. I know their stadium deal is about expired, or it is expired. They're working through that. I think it would be the old Los Angeles Rams in town.

Them sportswriters don't even know how to put uniforms on, most of 'em.

When you look at guys who get recruited, most of the best athletes, they come from poor families. I don't forget. I was a junior looking through my mother's stuff and looked at her bank statement, and we had $30 in the bank.

I love being single. I can come and go as I please and stay out late as I want to.

Observation is the most enduring of the pleasures of life.

I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.

Constantly there's a credibility issue; you're judged on how you look. If you look good, people assume you aren't credible. It's a battle you'll always fight if you're on TV and a female.

The government can help, but we need to make this transition now to a recovery led by private investment, private.

ON the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of a national government.

When you are on a great horse you have the best seat you will ever have.

People try to make a big deal, like I don't want to play my old songs. That's not it. I don't want to play my old songs if that's my only option. That's a different thing.

The more we can organize, find and manage information, the more effectively we can function in our modern world.

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Dealing with death is there forever, really, you know, because we all have to face it.

It's a very nice kind of quasi-fame being a writer, because you remain largely anonymous and you can have a private life, which I really cherish. I don't like to be in the public light all that much. I don't crave the whole fame thing at all.

It is quite different, but I love doing a series because you get to live with a character for a much longer amount of time. And the other aspect of it is that you have a steady job.

My real life helped me sell a lot of records.

Never defend yourself; agree with your critics, it takes the wind out of their sails.

I never have planned a whole lot of future. It's one day at a time.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.

I am suspicious of what people might want from me. Do they like me, or my money?

Law, without force, is impotent.

There's something about studying body language and non-spoken emotion - I know the innate response. But to really study it like a science would be fun.

I've got to sing for Pops; I've got to keep my father's legacy alive because he started all of this. So I started calling people, and nobody would give me a chance, but I didn't let that stop me. I took money out the bank and I started making me a record, and I did it in this guy's basement.

Trapped in the bureaucracy nightmare, real families suffer when the big banks and their servicers force foreclosures. The emotional toll on children packing up their rooms and on parents struggling to find a temporary roof is a deep one.

I find inspiration in everything.

Every sunset is also a sunrise. It all depends on where you stand.