Football is a very short-term proposition. Football really prepares you for nothing. The only thing I got out of football was the ability to work hard, and that's it.

I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.

We have about 4 million people who have voted for who they want to see in the Hall of Fame. There are some people they put down that are pretty good players. You have Ray Guy, Jim Plunkett, Lester Hayes and Donnie Shell.

People think I played 10 years. I played 68 ball games.

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.

The Lord is first, my friends are second, and I am third.

I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.