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I don't think my experience with professional football has been what you'd call normal but I don't regret it.
No one can keep their word. Everyone's in hurry and jumping to the next opportunity. There's something missing.
Some of the great John Wayne hero things that have ever happened in football happened because people play hurt.
For me, football is a quest. Quests entail overcoming hardship, trials of adversity in the pursuit of true joy.
When I played for the 49ers, we loved to see man-to-man defense. I could get the ball quickly to the receivers.
Third and 10 down by four at Lambeau Field in the drizzling rain... two minutes left. There's nothing like that.
The pistol isn't going to go away, but the job in the long run is going to be to deliver the ball from the pocket.
I wish I could've met my wife earlier. I do the math and I want 30 more years. I wish I'd started having kids earlier.
I had worked hard my entire career to establish myself as a leader. But I wasn't a leader until I was perceived as one.
The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.
51 Martin [guitar] sounded pretty good as new guitar. Martin has several levels of guitars now, and this one is pretty good.
At the time I retired I was kind of known for it, as one of the guys whose career ended technically as a result of a big hit.
The scary thing is I took 12 years of French, and I can barely say, 'My name is... ' And that's not because of the concussions.
Perception is reality. If you are perceived to be something, you might as well be it because that's the truth in people's minds.
I notice guys playing the piano playing a part up here and a part down there, and I wandered why couldn't I do that on the guitar?
I was known to spout off about [ politics and religion] sometimes, especially in my drinkin' days! It was pretty dangerous actually.
The song [The White Trash Song] was not a put down of [ my country cousins ], but a celebration. I wrote that early on, as a teenager.
My biggest problem when I was younger was trying to balance my ability with what the team needed me to do to officially run the offense.
My dad, like any coach, has always stressed the fundamentals. He taught me responsibility, accountability, and the importance of hard work.
I was made to go to church and I heard the gospel songs, and every now then somebody would come through with a guitar and that was a thrill!
One of the things that benefited me that anyone can learn is classical technique. That shows the orchestra that exists within the instrument.
I'm telling you, studying for week to week in the NFL, and memorization, and reflexive recall... you have to drive it into your brain so far.
Football, no one wants to ram into people. It's not human nature. You have to have a lot of incentive to ram into somebody to benefit others.
If I could have my kids be great when the lights are on, whatever the moment is, to be accountable and then fix it, they're going to be fine.
Private equity is a science project for many, many years, and when you have a science project, it leaves the human beings as a secondary fact.
I like the idea of having an old Gibson [guitar], but I don't have one. The Gibson has a different quality, but it's almost like you need both.
Scrambling, when no one's around, getting down, getting out of bounds, taking a glancing blow, those are all fine. You can do that all day long.
You have to take certain truths. One truth is that to have championship success in the NFL you have to learn to deliver the ball from the pocket.
I believe there will be players who, instead of playing eight years, will play six. Who will closely watch how they feel. It will shorten careers.
The best West Coast coaching job I've seen was when Mike Shanahan left the 49ers, became the head coach in Denver and made it available to John Elway.
BYU I think had a philosophy of nameless, faceless athletes for the greater good of BYU which is fine. We all did our thing and we're grateful for it.
I have a photographic memory that enables me to visualize what everyone in the huddle is supposed to do on each of the hundreds of plays in our playbook.
I did admire the comments and the music of Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie. And that didn't fly too well in the Deep South. It was not quite redneck enough.
The end is here, and you don't want be here. You are the best in the world at something, and you know you are not going to be that great at anything else.
Over time, I learned that how a quarterback moves the chains and leads his team to touchdowns is about as important as whether he actually does it or not.
There are a lot of places you can play quarterback and you won't know. You won't know if you're good or bad because there's just not a chance to find out.
My favorite record I've ever done is Rock Salt and Nails. It was recorded in '68-'69 and released in '69. There's something about that record I really like.
Music saved my life a few times because I could play the stuff rednecks loved. They thought I was great and they wondered why I didn't do that all the time.
In medieval times, artists had patrons that supported them and this is a similar thing, ... We're basically saying, 'Wouldn't you like to be a part of this'
I've come to a real understanding of the enormity of what owner entrepreneurs do in founding great businesses. They are rare and a thing of art in many ways.
A running quarterback, to me, is safer. Because, once I got out [of the pocket], I didn?t run where there were a lot of people. I ran where there was nobody.
You become a leader in times of trouble. Leaders emerge when things don't go well. When everyone else starts pointing fingers, a leader takes responsibility.
Most veterans detested training camp, but not me. I loved having a dorm room and a little fridge with snacks, and I looked forward to goofing around in the meetings.
I may yet move [from Nashville], and where would I move if not Texas or New Mexico? I couldn't afford a home in California. I need to travel out of there occasionally.
As the story about CTE got more real, it became more clear that players are playing that without a full understanding of the risks they face, and the long-term effects.
If I wasn't so lazy, or if I had a roadie, I'd have a line of guitars on stage. I'd have a lap steel and a nylon string up there, but who wants to keep up with all that?
I grew up wanting a guitar, my family was very poor. When I was fourteen my mother bought me a Gibson ES 125 thin body. That was a bunch of money in those days - $125.00.
I really wanted a guitar. As A little boy I used to tell people I was going to be a musician. They would humor me, and I'd make up thirty minute songs and drive them nuts.
When fans showed up at Candlestick, there was a great sense of anticipation that they would watch not only winning football, but also artistry. Our offense was that sublime.
I played 18 seasons. That's a lot. There is some that played more. Brett Favre I think played a couple more. There is a few. There is a few guys that played more, but not many.