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Both of my sons used to coach high school football. When they started, I'd say things I shouldn't have. So I learned my lesson.
When things are down, we can't hit the panic button, and when things are up, we can't relax. We've just got to stay consistent.
Some people say I'm the best back in the NFL. That's what drives you: You want everyone saying there's no doubt who's the best.
I think what I bring to the table is a lot of heart, a lot of energy, and somebody that works hard. Somebody who hates to lose.
It was just something normal in my family to play sports. It wasn't necessarily forced on us. It was just something we enjoyed.
Any time you're recovering from an injury, your main focus is trying to get back into shape, really just getting healthy again.
Life's been good to me. Why am I so lonely and bored? I used to wonder why so many rich men commit suicide. I no longer wonder.
I like how the other guys are stepping up. If we keep this up, then Bell does not have to score 25 points a game for us to win.
I feel like I've improved at everything I've done every single year - except golf. Golf, I've managed to stay exactly the same.
Let me explain my job very simply: My job is to line up five, seven, 10 yards in front of a man and run into him at full speed.
Fewer and fewer people are attracted to the church service and more and more people are attracted to the service of the church.
If you identify yourself as a great football player, anytime anyone challenges that, you're going to have some kind of problem.
We're all flawed human beings trying to be a better person on a daily basis and I didn't figure that out for a long, long time.
I do follow the NFL. It took me a while to get back into it, but I do follow it religiously now. Huge Packers and Steelers fan.
I'm going to make a difference in other people's lives because who I am as a person rather than who I was as a football player.
I meet athletes from different backgrounds and see they share the same mentality and process as other athletes in other sports.
I love the NFL. Everything that I really have is because of the NFL... but every idea that the NFL pitched is not a great idea.
So people only focus on getting the really deep sleep, but in reality, we spend almost 60% of the night in the stage two sleep.
I think leadership is more than being able to cross the t's and dot the i's. It's about character and integrity and work ethic.
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.
You can't go out and practice average on Wednesday, average on Thursday, okay on Friday and then expect to play well on Sunday.
I'm not a very creative person, you know? I'm not really an art person. I'm not a great reader or writer or artist or musician.
The job of a football coach is to make men do what they don't want to do, in order to achieve what they've always wanted to be.
I've never known a man worth his salt who, in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline
People told me I'd have to deal more with losing at this level. I understood that, but I didn't want to start accepting losses.
Some coaches and quarterbacks over-analyze things at times. Sometimes it can be pitch and catch, let the play-makers make plays.
Every game I've ever played, regardless if it was pre-season or Super Bowl, meant the same to me, and I laid it all on the line.
In spite of reports about playing with various teams, I'm enjoying retirement with my family and have no plans to play football.
The only thing I can tell you about a Super Bowl ring is, hey, not everybody gets one. But that's something I have to live with.
To me, I've played full seasons and had success. Mentally, I've been through it before. I'm not incapable of going through this.
There aren't many people in the world that were on television in the history of God's green earth talking to 110 million people.
You have to feel you're the best at what you do. You don't have to come out and say it. But you have to know it within yourself.
I don't think there's a limit as long as I keep my head right, don't get above myself, work hard and remember where I came from.
I can change a diaper in 30 seconds flat. I set the new one beneath the old one. That way, it's just wipe and pull the flap over
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.
Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.
There is a certain way that I play. You just have to have a feel for it. That's something you have to feel as a football player.
I'm a selfish football player. Each time the ball is snapped, I tell myself that I want to make that tackle, make that big play.
I'm stuck with being No. 32 for the Cleveland Browns. I can't do anything about that, and I don't' want to do anything about it.
I'm going to try to get my kid involved in golf and maybe try to get my kid to try to qualify for the PGA Tour. That's my dream.
I think there's always going to be a problem dealing with firearms, with knives. It's the animal we are that cause the problems.
Why waste precious time and energy trying to be someone you're not when you can put it to much better use simply being yourself?
The only things that smell good are fat and sugar. Tofu being boiled doesn't smell good. Anything that smells good is fattening.
My girlfriend always told me, 'Send roses while they can still smell them, tell people you love them while they can still hear.'
I had one fight in my adult life. I had the famous '89 fight with Nicole, which she admits that she initiated the physical part.
There are many ways to study Walt Disney, but I think learning about Walt as a leader probably has had the biggest impact on me.
I'm a guy here to play football. I'm not here for photos or newspapers or TV shows or trophies or awards. I'm not into all that.
There are four directions: North, South, East, and West. We are going in the fifth direction, which is the direction of stories.
Few cities have more skilled, experienced organizers and activists and grassroots organizations than St. Louis and Philadelphia.
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.