Halas didn't believe in starting rookies.

Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.

Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will make heroes of us all.

Halas didn't believe in starting rookies.

I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.

There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.

We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.

I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.

I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.

I was playing in the league when Ray Guy was playing in the league. He was the best kicker I've ever seen. He could bullet that ball 70 yards.

Jay Cutler, he's a fine quarterback, but I think at times he gets a little nicked up.

There are some people that probably should be in the Hall of Fame, but they're not for some reason.

We have about 4 million people who have voted for who they want to see in the Hall of Fame. There are some people they put down that are pretty good players. You have Ray Guy, Jim Plunkett, Lester Hayes and Donnie Shell.

What happens also is that a lot of those people and reporters who vote for Hall of Famers, some of the people who were around when Ray Guy was around, are deceased. And some of the reporters don't remember Ray Guy. He should have been in the Hall of Fame 15 years ago.

Football is a very short-term proposition. Football really prepares you for nothing. The only thing I got out of football was the ability to work hard, and that's it.

I find pleasure in things that are simple.

It never occurred to me to be an actor.

Disclosure and transparency are the currency of the Internet, and they are at odds with authoritarianism.

I was a little nervous coming in mostly because my first scene was with Martin Sheen, who I'm a huge fan of.

During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.

I have nine children. It breaks my heart to think that it might be their blood is needed to redeem something, to reclaim something that we, through our apathy and our indifference, have given away.

You know, I read the papers and I watch the news a lot. I watch 'Dateline' and '48 Hours'. And I think we have a tendency to become terrified of one another, thinking that there is a serial killer that is on either side of you.

I didn't say I was that smart, I said I went to class and I enjoyed what I was doing.

If we are to achieve a richer culture we must weave one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.

Every health expert tells you to eat breakfast. I had the mentality, 'I'll save those calories!' But then you are starving, and you overeat.

The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

I like Miami in the winter: there's no humidity, no bugs, no mosquitoes. You go out and wear your jacket, and you're all good!

A romantic date for me is sitting in pajamas and being with a guy with whom I can be myself.

When I was 14 I would pick up my brother's bass guitar, and I would just pound on it, having no idea how to play it.

People talk about Wall Street greed, but one of the things many people don't understand is that there are a lot of organizations that have been the recipient of largess from the same Wall Street.

When you're playing music, say for instance, you're playing a part of the band and you're looking at your music, your horn is down into the stand. This way, it's up and it goes right on out to the audience, you know?

We probably spend more time talking about individual players in our coaching sessions than anything else.

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

The fundamental laws necessary for the mathematical treatment of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty lies only in the fact that application of these laws leads to equations that are too complex to be solved.

I've seen every highway in the United States, and they all look alike to me.

There has been a growing consensus across the country - from statehouses to the White House and the halls of Congress - that we need to take dramatic steps to improve our secondary schools.

The fact is Qatar, Etihad, Emirates, Singapore, Garuda, all of the three Chinese airlines, Air New Zealand - the fact is that international aviation relies very much upon agreements between nation-states, and it is not an area in which you have free market operations.

I wouldn't presume to know something, but I have lots to learn and that's what I attempt to do through my work.

I am proud of being a Greek of the diaspora.