You've got to stand up and do your own battles. My daddy taught me that a long time ago, that you fight your own battles. The only way to shut everybody up is to win.

People respect you more if you just play and blow something out than if you take the easier road. That's how we think. You get more respect and people play harder for you. Just play till you blow it. Just play till it goes.

I just like to catch fish, I don't care if it weighs half a pound or 10 pounds. But I can't do a lot of casting. I can work a jig or a worm. But not for long, especially if the big ones are biting. Those big bass will make it hurt after a while.

When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people from other countries play football. He corrected me on my geography and agreed to sit down with me anyway.

I know this golf tournament has my name on it but it's not about me. It's about the Louisiana Tech family. There is nothing greater than being a part of the Bulldog family.

You can't dodge them all. I got hammered plenty of times through the years. But you just get up and keep playing. I can tell you from experience, though. Sometimes it hurts like hell.

After three failed marriages, I know what it's like to be replaced. So that's kind of how Joey Harrington must feel today... A former No. 1 choice looks to me like he's going to be a bust in Detroit.

As a player, it says everything about you if you made the Hall of Fame. But, then again, boy... there's something about winning a Super Bowl.

I may be dumb, but I'm not stupid.

You've got to stand up and do your own battles. My daddy taught me that a long time ago, that you fight your own battles. The only way to shut everybody up is to win.

What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence.

All great empires die from within.

All my football injuries now have arthritis in them.

All you got to do is look around. This country's getting worse and worse and more and more immoral, and we're rotting from within.

Any team can win.

Bad attitudes will ruin your team.

Bottom line is, if you turn the ball over to a team that isn't as good, you then have brought them up to your level.

Depression is a physical illness.

Everybody handles things differently.

For an athlete, there's no time off... until it's over.

Going out to play a game in front of 100,000 spectators doesn't worry me. Nothing to it.

I am a Christian guy. I've struggled with that; I have struggled with everything.

I am a man that loves the flag.

I can't run anymore. That's the one thing I loved doing. And I can't play golf hardly at all because of wrist and back pain.

I could not bounce back from my divorce - emotionally - I just could not bounce back.

I decided to write a book primarily because people talked me into it.

I didn't respond well to a firm hand and insults.

I don't have hair anymore. I've shrunk. I'm barely 6 feet 2 inches. I just had my teeth fixed because I'm a grinder.

I don't like confrontation.

I don't really care about being accepted now. I wish I had been like that earlier.

I don't want to hurt anybody.

I enjoy my public speaking. That's what I love doing. It's what I'm good at.

I found out that superstars Winkler and William Shatner are real people, and I was so thankful for that.

I got a family I got to answer to. I got kids... my older parents and my preachers and everybody.

I got tested to see what condition my brain is in. And it's not in real good shape.

I have always felt like a fish in water with football, Fox, speeches, riding horses, and raising cattle.

I have been playing football since I was 7.

I have more of an identity with Cowher than I do Tomlin. I knew Cowher when he came over from Kansas City as a defensive coordinator, and his teams were tough. Tomlin came in from Minnesota, and I didn't know anything about him. So maybe it's unfair for me to make the comparison.

I just see too many people retire and say, 'I'm going to take off, travel, spend time with my family' and they are just miserable. They end up dying. People who work and stay active, and like what they are doing, live longer.

I know me, and I know my heart. I know what the Lord expects. I know what a Christian's supposed to act like, but you can't act it.

I lose stuff. I forget stuff. I walk into rooms and go, 'Why am I in here? What did I come in here for?' Is that normal? I'm 65. I don't know.

I love the national anthem.

I really don't care that I'm ranked.

I really started to forget things. That's why I quit reciting statistics: because I couldn't remember them exactly, and I stayed away from mentioning some players by name because I really wasn't sure, and I didn't want to make a mistake.

I was frustrated I couldn't remember stuff, and I got real upset. It was driving me nuts.

I was not used to criticism.

I would not put Dak Prescott on the bench. I would leave him as the starter, and I wouldn't have a problem with that at all.

I would start with the most important thing a quarterback has to be: poised. If you panic in that pocket, you are no good. I don't care what else is there; you have to be poised.

I'm a big card guy. I play Rook, Liverpool Rummy - love that. I play Pac-Man, shoot pool.