Athlete

I've been bashed my whole career.

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

I'm not a one-liner guy. I'm a story guy.

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

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

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

Bad attitudes will ruin your team.

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

I've never had a problem with people expressing themselves. It's one thing great about our country.

I'm learning how to prevent my brain from getting worse than it is after suffering a career worth of concussions playing football.

Forget politics and what their platforms were and everything, because you can take whoever you want to take, but the guy that I liked was Nixon... He was a smart man.

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.

Washington, D.C., is one of my favorite cities.

Lawsuits make you care. I think the PR makes you care. But personally, when I got out in 1983, do I think they cared about me? No.

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.

The best thing you can say about any coach is his players play hard for him.

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.

When I was labeled stupid, that scarred me forever.

You have to understand, now, I'm a momma's boy. I'm from the south. My way of being raised is totally different than the big city life. I truly was a country boy.

I'm always happy-go-lucky, and people look at me and find it shocking that I could be depressed.