You have to stay one level above everyone else.

If something is said about the Raiders, I'm ready to go to war.

I also played in the 1967 Super Bowl against the Green Bay Packers.

Everyday I walked on to the field I was the best center.

I was told in high school that the last game during your senior year stays with you forever, which is true.

When I hear anything derogatory towards the Raiders, I am definitely hurt.

You have to stay one level above everyone else.

It's not that difficult to win. It's more difficult to win consistently and stay on top.

I think the officials and NFL owners are playing to the type of game that people want to see.

If the entire team can feel the same way about these things, you can consistently remain a winner.

I think the tougher the challenge the better.

And as a true athlete, mistakes haunt you forever.

Everyone wants to beat us. So you can never take a single game lightly.

I have seen the Raiders develop into what they are today.

I think Ray Guy and John Madden for sure should be in the Hall of Fame and Cliff Branch should be as well.

But now there are more concussions due to not being used to the hard hitting.

I work here at the Raiders. My position is basically what I make it.

I've been a Raider all my life.

You must also give mental and physical fitness priority.

It was a very exciting time for me to play professional football, finally.

We have three tremendous tight ends in Christianson, Casper, and Chester.

We have always had great and loyal fans in Oakland.

The first game I played. We played against the Dallas Texans.

There is hard hitting, but the hitting is not nearly as hard as it used to be.

The NFL offensive blocking is played differently; they use their hands instead of their head and shoulders.

The plays I remember are the plays I made a mistake.

I have been a part of this development, so I am very proud of it.

There are writers who are great visionaries, who can depict huge movements - things like that. They're the great writers. I'm just the other kind.

You can't just vote for yourself. All the time, you're thinking what sort of country, what world, what future?

I'm kind of a beach bum from Florida, and I have a very different style. I like tight-fitting, Euro-fitting clothes, colored pants.

The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.

My argument is simple, which is, that for several thousand years in Western civilization, marriage has been the union of one man and one woman. Research is overwhelming that children need mothers and fathers.

When I'm dead, somebody can write my biography. I wrote a national hymn, an anthem, which I don't want to present to that country. But I have a deal with my wife - when I'm dead, she should offer it, because then I'm safe.

While I respect my cousin Annette Sykes' commitment in engaging in the political process, I do not endorse or support any political party.

I speak my mind. That's who I am.

For kids it's natural to be competitive.

Credit is a promise to deliver money. It will produce GDP but you'll create credit... So you reach a certain point that that you can't do that anymore... There are choices. And how do we best support, apportion the money? How much is going to be transferred?

Men should always change diapers. Its a very rewarding experience. Its mentally cleansing. Its like washing dishes but imagine if the dishes were your kids so you really love the dishes.

I always try to find the truth in a situation. That unvarnished, pure nugget of truth at the core of every issue that I write about.

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

I don't intimidate anyone. Instead, I try to get people to believe in themselves.

None of us, in our culture of comfort, know how to prepare ourselves for dying, but that's what we should do every day. Every single day, we die a thousand deaths.

Here's what I tell people now when they come to my shows: 'First of all, thank you for stimulating the economy, or at least my economic package.'

There is a dharma for yourself for someone else for a family for a nation for a universe. There are collective and individual dharmas.

I love exploring the relationship between fathers and daughters. I think that's a special thing, especially with daughters who are dealing with being adults.

I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.

I am not a kind of person now who broods over the failures and negatives.

Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.

What I remain opposed to is the idea that David Cameron could go around and give up workers' rights, give up environmental protection, give up a whole load of things that are very important.