I don't really care about being accepted now. I wish I had been like that earlier.

You can't dodge them all. I got hammered plenty of times through the years. But you just get up and keep playing. I can tell you from experience, though. Sometimes it hurts like hell.

Being gifted intellectually is only a small part of the equation of success. Concentrate on the factors you have control over: persistence, self-discipline, confidence. Far more failures are due to lack of will than lack of ability.

I'm against people reading statements. When you read statement, I automatically take it as though you can't talk, and it's not real.

No one will ever win four [Super Bowls] in six years again. It won't happen. You can chisel that sucker in stone.

I could not bounce back from my divorce - emotionally - I just could not bounce back.

I kept hearing I'd be traded to San Francisco. Man I would love that. I even went so far as to go into the locker room singing 'I left my heart in San Francisco'. Nobody laughed or said a word. I figured maybe I'd get my wish