Sure enough, it wasn't long until I got a call, telling me I had a scholarship there. It was the only scholarship offer I had and, believe me, I jumped at it.

It's unbelievable how many things I've learned from Merlin Olsen.

I think my numbers speak for themselves.

Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.

Football has been my life for as long as I can remember.

But this was my chance to go to the Super Bowl. Nothing was going to stop me.

The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.

You learn to kid around and joke and not take things too seriously because somehow its all gonna work out for the best - or you're gonna make it work out.

Sure enough, it wasn't long until I got a call, telling me I had a scholarship there. It was the only scholarship offer I had and, believe me, I jumped at it.

You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done.

By that time I was thinking a little about pro ball and hopeful that someone would draft me.

There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.

He owned a service station, and I used to go there and piddle around - pump some gas, get in the way.

Good luck is a residue of preparation.

One day, though, I was asked if I'd like to go to the University of Florida and become a Gator.

I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It's like having a mental workshop.

Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.

He took me under his wing when I first came to the Rams and taught me everything - his technique in the pass rush, how to play off blockers, and how to make the big play.

The disappointment of losing is huge.

I think we all want to be remembered for what we did.

I don't talk much to offensive linemen in general.

Boy, I'll tell you, when the Rams drafted me No. 1, it surprised me. I was walking on air for days.

The emotions of the game do not change.

Those opportunities to play in championship games are few and far between.

Copying is an art in itself demanding the greatest technical ability especially in watercolour. However well done the copy invariably lacks that nascent ineffable but definite quality provided by the furious enthusiasm with which an original is created an essential spontaneity that defies reproduction.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

For me, my family and my faith have been what's really been my anchor, and grounding me, and helping me navigate through a lot of the things that really destroy marriages in Hollywood, and in your own personal integrity.

Actions speak louder than words

I've got a great sense of humor, and if I'm able to say or do something in a movie that people feel like they want to repeat, that's hugely flattering.

No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing factors, more enduring than customs, manners and traditions, are the legal systems that regulate our life in the world and our daily affairs with each other.

As a designer, I think you just have to make sure you know what you want and stay true to it. You need to have conviction and really just want to make people think in regards to doing interesting things.

Whether it's acting, directing or writing, I want to be involved in the film industry for the rest of my life.

Introvert conversations are like jazz. Each player gets to solo for a nice stretch before the other player comes in and does his solo.

To me, if a heterosexual has a right to do it, then I have a right to do it. And if it's important to the gay youth - who are now setting the agenda - then its important to me.

The youth of France do not want a new neo-liberal contract.

I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.

But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with.

My first web series, 'Dorm Diaries,' was a realistic mockumentary about what it was like to be black at Stanford University. I'm black and I went to Stanford. Boom. Easy.

Germany stands in the fight against terrorism at France's side, united with many, many others. I am convinced that, despite all the difficulties, we shall win this fight.

I never was deeply interested in any object; I never prayed sincerely and earnestly for anything, but it came at some time - no matter how distant, in some way, in some shape, probably the last I should have devised, it came. And yet, I have always had so little faith. God forgive me.

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

When Jefferson and the Republicans rallied to the Union and to the existing Federalist organization, the fabric of traditional American democracy was almost completely woven.

I love to hand sew. I sometimes make clothing for my children, which of course they grow out of in a matter of minutes. I thoroughly love it.

When I finish a job, I surrender it completely. I have to, because after that, it really is out of my hands.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

I think it's always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it's very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently.

Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.

There is a real formula to writing music, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge. It's very formulaic. The subject matter that you can address in pop music is somewhat restricted. It just doesn't allow that same emotive quality that you can put into poetry.