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I don't think there would be any pressure playing for my hometown team. It would be fun. I'd just do the same thing I did before and build on it.
The Madden Curse has really taken on a life of its own. People just love talking about it, and it is what it is, but I look at it as a challenge.
I found that being top put all the pressure on second place, not first. The focus is on the second-place team, who can't afford to slip up again.
The only thing worse than finishing second is to be lying on the desert alone with your back broken. Either way, nobody ever finds out about you.
P.E. was my life in school. Without it, I wouldn't be standing here. It gave me confidence when I was an overweight kid with a speech impediment.
Me, personally, I'm going to be out there running full speed and chasing down running backs and chasing down quarterbacks. That's what I do best.
The three greatest people in my life were white, OK. My high school coach, my high school superintendent and my mentor in Manhasset, Long Island.
People often think that there's a general who makes all the difference, but I would reject that. It's a team effort. It's the power of the wedge.
In all the years that I've been in football - I went directly from coaching to broadcasting - I never really had a lot of experience watching it.
When you make bad decisions bad things happen. And it was so simple. You know, the decisions you make are going to become the life that you live!
I'm not afraid of who I am. I'm not afraid to tell the world who I am. I'm Michael Sam, I'm a college graduate, I'm African-American and I'm gay.
I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
I think the hardest part, and where we have to stay the most disciplined, as much as you want a player, you can't invent him if he doesn't exist.
Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground.
Do this research if we don't have a season -- watch how much evil, which we call crime, watch how much crime picks up, if you take away our game.
I take square aim at an unbiblical churchianity that has resulted in a church-centric religion that fails to reflect the heart of God for people.
Maybe I'm stupid or whatever, but to me if I got a concussion, if I could see straight and I could carry a football then I'm not telling anybody.
In elementary and middle school, I threw kids against the wall. I rubbed their heads in the dirt at recess. I bit them. I even knocked teeth out.
You sacrifice so much to get to the NFL. You miss recitals and graduations. Moments that you can't have because you're focused on being the best.
For me, you've got to play football first. We're not trying to be accountants. The money takes care of itself. That's kind of how I think anyway.
It's always important, when we experience injustice in this nation, that people in power understand that we will not take that injustice quietly.
In general, there are patients with insomnia who - many patients with insomnia will actually over report the lack of sleep that they are getting.
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.
To me, if you're trying to impress a girl, get a date, they're gonna like that more because you're a confident guy. That's what it comes down to.
Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibilities. Everybody struggles in different ways.
America needs football. It's a real blue-collar sport; it's played with a blue-collar mentality, a mentality that's the backbone of this country.
I try to run on the hottest days, at the hottest time, because that's the most difficult time. And sometimes I worry about drying out, and dying.
In this case, I realize that, unlike when I was 22 years old, I realize now that football will not go on forever, it is a small part of your life.
I've played in every type of situation. But to not have one run in the playoffs where you just make one of those magical runs? That's what I want.
I don't like getting into hot cars when it's been sitting outside. You're already sweating and you get into the car and you're profusely sweating.
There are a lot of details to running that I never even thought about. I just went out and ran. I think I can be faster. I think I can be quicker.
I thank goodness every day that I played in the no-huddle, and it was Sam Wyche in Cincinnati who's really one of the innovators of the no-huddle.
We can change the lives of autistic children. We can make a difference. There are hundreds of families in Florida who can't afford the therapists.
On certain plays and situations I feel like I have the advantage. But sometimes I just have to not think about the size of the guy in front of me.
For a true work of creativity, you must reach beyond yourself to bring correct draftsmanship together with strong composition and lifelike colors.
It's tough for kids to stay focused if they don't have something to get them off the streets... that's where the kids can get into the bad things.
With a body like he has, I want him to be a bully. But he is too nice - he is perfect son-in-law material, but I don't want a team of son-in-laws.
Some people can get there in three or four games, some need eight or nine, but after 11 games, if you've been playing regularly, you're match-fit.
I mean the game is just, everybody talks about baseball but I really think football probably has a little bit more American feeling than anything.
If you are making smart decisions and doing the right things in the correct order and dedicating yourself to something, the success is inevitable.
I'm not afraid to tell the world who I am. I'm Michael Sam: I'm a college graduate. I'm African American, and I'm gay. I'm comfortable in my skin.
You have created your fears. And you can choose to lay them to rest. You have created your dreams. And you can choose to bring them fully to life.
It hurts because I can't go out there and play football, but it hurts more because I have to be a father and explain what happened to my daughter.
As a quarterback, obviously, you're going to be put in the forefront whether you like it or not, and if you're not then you're not doing your job.
America was not built on kindness or the Christianity of Christ. It was not built on freedom or liberty. This nation was built on white supremacy.
So the deeper stages of sleep are really those times of quiescence, you're really restoring your body and we have a few different stages of sleep.
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.
There are things players go through on an everyday basis in the business of football. You don't see it all with the glitz and glamour of game day.
My integrity means more to me than any fame or money. When I say something, I want people to take it to the bank that I mean it and believe in it.
Confidence comes from knowing what you're doing. If you are prepared for something, you usually do it. If not, you usually fall flat on your face.