I have such bad memories, sitting in the back of a classroom, being told, you know, everybody is going to read a paragraph, and skipping ahead to my paragraph and being mortified and trying to read it enough times so that I wouldn't stutter and stammer, getting called on, even in high school.

A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.

I am a huge fan of Alan Furst. Furst is the best in the business--the most talented espionage novelist of our generation.

My doctors warned me repeatedly that if you don't stay positive, you don't do well.

When I give a lot of speeches, they're always on the fly. I mean, I know what I'm going to say roughly, but I do not - will not read.

If you're not busy living, you're dying.

I have a history of disregarding orders. - Mitch Rapp