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

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.

One problem with the focus on speculation is that it tends to promote the growth of the great intellectual cancer of our times: conspiracy theories.

Black people lived right by the railroad tracks, and the train would shake their houses at night. I would hear it as a boy, and I thought: I'm gonna make a song that sounds like that.

My mom and dad always taught acting, so instead of getting me babysitters, they would just bring me to class.

We are being accused that some models are anorexic. But we as fashion designers cannot be blamed, because you know, when I talk to women around the world, rich and poor and young and old and intellectual and not, what they want to be is skinny. You ask them, 'What is your dream?' It's to be skinny. That's all they want.

The first single I released, 'Anything Goes,' is probably one of the best-written songs I've heard in a long time. It takes somebody knowing who you are. Sometimes writers know who an artist is and what they want to say and how they sing. I will never be opposed to cutting a song if somebody nails my life and what I'm going through.

For kids, multitasking electronically is common. But they are totally focused. You can tell a good story, and they listen.

While books provided me with some escape from the mental and physical horrors of my early life, they were unreliable. Many times the protagonists suffered terribly and then died at the end.

I'm a lazy creature when I'm not acting.

Thinking about death makes you analyse what life is. Anxiety makes you curious, and curiosity leads to understanding. I wouldn't be a writer without depression.

Sincere Christians can disagree about the details of Scripture and theology - absolutely.

I lost the accent years ago, but I'm still very proud to be Scottish, and I love wearing a kilt.

I really believe that's one of the many reasons that God had put me right in the middle of the Backstreet Boys. There are so many stars today that don't realize the impact they have on young people. Being a superstar is great, as long as you can be a positive role model.

The only currency I value is the coin of the spirit. That's very important in my life.

I'm the man that brought you the mullet.

The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice is portrayed in TV dramas.

My dream is that my kids grow up into nice people; that's my dream.

Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.

My mother cared more about how you reasoned than about the conclusions you reached.

Belief fails when it works not well indeed but is idle as a sleeping man... Each virtuous deed is strong when it is grounded upon the solidity of belief.

I liked the theater. I liked the people. I liked the time that we worked.

An unarmed man can only flee from evil and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.

My mum put herself in £50,000 of debt to service my sporting career. She did everything for me to pursue my dream.

I have tried to create main characters who are drastically different from the types who generally appear in crime novels. Mikael Blomkvist, for instance, doesn't have ulcers or booze problems or an anxiety complex. He doesn't listen to operas, nor does he have an oddball hobby such as making model airplanes.

I write in two very different places: my desk in Palo Alto, California, is piled high with myriad jumbled books and papers whose stratigraphy is a challenge. Summers in Bozeman, Montana, I write in a spare space, surrounded by interesting rocks and fossils instead of books, on an old oak table with nothing but my laptop.