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It's easy when you have receivers that are open all the time and an offensive line that never lets anyone touch you. It makes it fun to play.
I'm attracted to women who are smart and funny and ambitious and have lives of their own and great families. Isn't that what attracts anyone?
It's still pretty surreal. I wake up every day and just pinch myself and kind of think about how far I've come and all the stuff I have done.
I like our whole team. That's the biggest thing about football. It's got to be your whole team. It just can't be one side carrying the other.
If wanting to win is a fault, as some of my critics seem to insist, then I plead guilty. I like to win. I know no other way. It's in my blood.
I have no problem with my hips - I can still do the things that I used to do. I can run, I'm just not the fastest person on the field anymore.
But now, I get up every morning and go to the gym because I don't like waking up stiff or in pain and wondering if my hip is going to hurt me.
There are a lot things that are going on that are unjust. People aren't being held accountable for. And that's something that needs to change.
At Florida, I could outrun or out jump a lot of players. But everyone in this league runs either a 4.4 or 4.5 and can jump out of the stadium.
What makes a home to me is the energy. I'm a big energy person, so somewhere that I can relax, feel free and not have to worry about anything.
When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.
I was honored to spend time with the President on an issue that is clearly important to him. I was also impressed by his wide receiver skills.
I think the fact is that anybody who goes into politics feels like 'I can make a difference'. But it's not one person, you need so many others
You cannot sleep with the enemy and be successful...Every cord that binds you to failure, every cord that binds you to fear, you gotta cut it!
I was playing in the league when Ray Guy was playing in the league. He was the best kicker I've ever seen. He could bullet that ball 70 yards.
Black is a color of power and strength, and to see all those players, with the captains linking their arms in front - it's a powerful picture.
I have three Defensive Players of the Year. Only one other player has done that. But being a defensive lineman, it's hard to control the game.
My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didn't want to let them down.
People would look at me weird. You know, like, 'Why is this guy's hands always in his pockets?' But I was embarrassed by the size of my hands.
There's always an asterisk behind somebody's name who hasn't won the Super Bowl. There shouldn't be, but that's kind of the way history works.
Even when I retired, there was part of me that didn't want to retire. But once you decide it's time to move on then you have to stick with it.
Well, when you're playing good football, it's good football and if you don't have good football, then you're not really playing good football.
Discipleship, following Jesus Christ is the toughest thing that you're going do in your whole life. You're not going to find anything tougher.
I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective.
I learned a long time ago through my dad that you shouldn't really compare yourself to others - just because that hampers how good you can be.
That's part of the reason Rex drafted me, because I value this job. It's my life. If somebody wanted to take that away from me, it's personal.
Do what is right, and you'll have no lasting regrets. Do what is right, and put yourself on the side of truth, goodness, and the best of life.
You can't stop me in bump. And you definitely can't stop me playing off. You just try to contain me and stop me from getting a lot of catches.
Everybody has their own answer of what a catch should be. I say, secure the ball; if the ball is not moving, it's a dead ball, simple as that.
Even Rod Woodson will tell you his best year he had as a professional was when he was 36 years old. If you think about why, you're much wiser.
I'm a military kid, both parents in the military - Mom did 12 years, Dad did 21, served in two wars. So discipline is something that was huge.
My dad used to wake me up at 5:30 in the morning and hit me ground balls and tell me, 'Don't be afraid to excel. Don't be afraid to be great.'
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.
We don't care about going 2-0, 3-0, or 4-0. Our first main objective is to go 1-0. That's the only thing we care about. That's the main focus.
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 worry about what I can control, and that's come out and improve every day, enjoy the process, count your blessings, and work extremely hard.
I don't care about three years ago - I don't care about two years ago. I don't care about last year. The only thing I care about is this week.
I go out there with whatever the coaches call, and whatever they do, I just go out there, and I'm the player. Coaches coach, and players play.
I'm sure if the punishment fits the crime, or is more severe, you're going to start stamping out a lot of things that are going on in football.
I knew if I got an offer from Alabama, that's where I wanted to go... just because I liked what they stood for. I liked that they were winning.
Part of my job being a leader and captain of the team is not just to play well and lead well but find a way to make everybody around me better.
You take those little rascals, talk to them good, pat them on the back, let them think they are good, and they will go out and beat the biguns.
I made 22 million in 14 years... with taxes, and travel and everything else, it gets blown out the window... which is why I still need to work.
Some people are afraid to dress in ways that they actually like because it might be different than what most people expect or how others dress.
I think the fact is that anybody who goes into politics feels like 'I can make a difference'. But it's not one person, you need so many others.
The next time you feel slightly uncomfortable with the pressure in your life, remember no pressure, no diamonds. Pressure is a part of success.
When you get to a place where you don't go for what you can get, but you go for what you can give, you gonna see your life change tremendously.
Once you get your education it's going to open up so many doors for you. And the sky's the limit. So that's what I want to deliver to students.
Money is lonely anyway. When you got it, people always want it. You don't want to be used; sometimes you don't know where a cat is comin' from.
I wasn't saying that in a sense that I didn't plan on scoring any goals. This won't happen again. It would be nice if it did, but it's reality.