What I do is prepare myself until I know I can do what I have to do.

Nobody wants to follow somebody who doesn't know where he's going.

How you recover from what life's throwing at you is what matters.

I think I could have become an outstanding professional baseball player, but I don't think I could have reached the heights that I have in football - being one of the very top players in the game, being a world champion.

After my first knee operation, in January of '65 before I went to the Jets, Dr. James Nicholas told me everything went well and that I could probably play four years in the NFL. The surgery was trailblazing to a certain extent.

I don't care what a man is as long as he treats me right. He can be a gambler, a hustler, someone everybody else thinks is obnoxious, I don't care so long as he's straight with me and our dealings are fair.

What I do is prepare myself until I know I can do what I have to do.