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

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.

God's Jewish nation did not understand his divine priority for the kingdom.

Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with dignity and comfort when they haven't got it anymore.

Remember that a good football novel has to have the same ingredients as any other good novel: drama, convincing and interesting characters, a strong story-line, and some kind of magic in the writing.

My first real acting gig was probably playing Mamillius in my mother's 'Winter's Tale.' My mom and dad are both in theater, so I grew up acting and being a little theater brat as well.

I love pregnancy and the bump and the whole thing.

Everything abstract is ultimately part of the concrete. Everything inanimate finally serves the living. That is why every activity dealing in abstraction stands in ultimate service to a living whole.

My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything even if you have no clue what youre doing.

Life is all about balance and following what the universe provides for you.

A man who flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a shortcut to meet it.

Step into your track and begin your steps till you reach the end because life is a personal journey.

Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker - as I said earlier, you can't change people's minds, but you can get them to think.

The truth is that I'm an idiot. I am. I don't do things by the rules sometimes. I say things that I probably shouldn't say. I push buttons. I deserve to be made fun of. And I feel like, as soon as you can make fun of something, it instantly removes the fear.

There is a great deal of political pressure to only talk about abstinence, and to deny support for condoms and education on using them. This policy will lead to the unnecessary deaths of many people.

You see rock and roll isnt a career or hobby its a life force. Its something very essential.

The supreme good of life is vitality. And vitality is always seeping away.

If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me.

Our only weapons in this war of your lifetime are the weapons of the mind.

A diamond was laying in the street covered with dirt. Many fools passed by. Someone who knew diamonds picked it up.

For me, you can put on something by Bach, and I'll feel better.

The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.

I think I was just bored one summer afternoon, and I decided to post a little video of me singing and playing guitar out of tune.

When I became prime minister last September, I promised the Japanese people that I would not tolerate the politics of indecision. A propensity to delay difficult and weighty decisions has been hurting our country. It is detrimental to our economy, society and future, and it cannot be allowed to continue.

I didn't want to raise my kids in this weird, sycophantic society. If you have celebrity parents, it's not a good recipe for the kids, or anyone at any age.

Remember, weapons of mass destruction don't mean missiles.