I've always been attracted to characters with insurmountable odds and obstacles, because innately, however inarticulately I've always believed that my dreams and my desires can command and bend time and space to be the things that I want them to be.

I've always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation.

You’ll never achieve 100 percent if 99 percent is okay.

Your words and thoughts have physical power.

The way I like to measure greatness is... How many people can you make want to be better?

The thing I wanted to focus on first was that I wanted to graduate, and (with me) coming back, I knew that I wanted another national championship. Another national championship is everyone's main goal, but we have to take it one game at a time. We can't get ahead of ourselves. We've got Washington first, then we'll see what happens.

There's a forgiveness that literary audiences will give you that film audiences don't give you. It's the two hour construct. You're in there and it needs to climax and finish.