But Barry, to me, is head and shoulders above everybody.

I just think that we're capable of so much more; we don't utilize all our capacity like we should.

That's why, to experience that, you know for a fact that a human being is capable of so much more, because to go to that place and to step outside yourself and observe yourself do these things, while the rest of the world is moving in slow motion, is really incredible.

Going in, I knew I wasn't one of the top ones, because I didn't even make the pre-season All-American team. That shows you what people thought of me right there, so I knew I had to go to work.

At USC, if you're running back there, and you do gain you over 1,500 yards, people see you as a candidate, but not one of the top ones.

To be a winner of that, and to fall in the long line of traditional great backs at USC, to have your name in perpetuity, the fact that your parents are like icons... that's the greatest thing.

It really lasted the whole game, because I was really untouchable, unstoppable that game. But it was heightened on one particular play, and that was the longest run where everything completely slowed down. My awareness was so keen, it was so heightened, it was really amazing.

Even as voters, we try to keep up with the guys as much as possible, mainly through television or ESPN.

You've got to be extremely careful, because you could be with a great team, and you could be the product of a great team. There are some players that stand out despite the teams that they play on, and there are some players that are good because of the team that they're with.

But there is something to the fact that we don't see games on the West Coast, or we don't see games on the East Coast, and stuff like that. It's so unfair, because there is a bias that takes place.

You know, I think when I reflect on it, I think there's certainly a sense of history. When you have ambitions to play this game, you want to be one of the best ever, and you want to play so well and be so effective that you want people to remember your name 100 years from now.

But Barry, to me, is head and shoulders above everybody.

It actually took me a year to learn how to play running back - to understand what they were doing defensively and then what our guys were doing every single play.

I was saying earlier that it's really strange - you can almost step outside yourself and observe yourself running, and that's what I was doing.

I just felt like reflecting on my junior year, when I didn't know what I was doing, I left a lot of stuff out there. Actually, I gained close to 700 yards more and I took myself out of a lot of games.

It's always hard - if you're not the best player on your team, how can you be the best player in college?

Freedom is not enough.

‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

I do think it's possible to change for the better.

I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something.

When you hear about people in the '50s getting married at 20, you're like, 'What were they thinking?' My grandparents were together for over 50 years.

Most of the serious disagreement I get comes through email or social media, where people are more comfortable.

When I'm playing the 1-guard, I'm kind of seeing everything that's going on. When I play the 2, I have a more broader understanding of what's going on and where the screens are being set in order for not only myself to get open, but for my teammates.

As I look over my work, I mean every time I look over my early work, I see, yes, I could do that then and then I could do that and that... That may be the hardest thing for a writer, at least for a poet, to tell what the identity of his work is.

I wasn't with Joseph, but I believe him. My faith did not come to me through science, and I will not permit so-called science to destroy it.

I really wanted people just to get to know Solange on my first album, just to establish Solange's sound, just to establish Solange's personality.

At times, you need to be forceful to get things that are stuck unstuck.

Well, if they are trying to kill you, on the whole they're the people you have to kill, aren't they?

This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late.

The things that I care about have never changed.

To be excited is still to be unsatisfied.

We wonder if we will be the first generation in American history to leave our children with fewer opportunities and a less prosperous nation than the one we inherited.

All ethical people strive to choose right over easy when confronted by situations that force them to choose one or the other.

It was despairing to find out that I am mortal.

I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.'

I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.

Faith is the quiet cousin of courage.

I have always believed that you win fights round by round.

Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.

A lot of the guys that I date and my friends are all in bands.