“I think sometimes in life the biggest challenges end up being the best things that happen in your life.”

My mom was a great tennis player, and I remember being six or seven years old watching Steffi Graf and Monica Seles in Wimbledon in my house. I’ve always been a tennis fan.

With football, you can have up to 28 guys you consider starters, and if they can pick up the slack when some aren’t playing so well, you don’t have to turn those two-game losing streaks into six-game losing streaks.

Football is unconditional love.

Fortunately for a quarterback, you can play for a long time because you don’t get hit very often.

I think it’s a feeling like I’ve got it all figured out. There’s nothing that can shock me anymore. There’s nothing I haven’t anticipated; so at that point, there is a calmness.

I think you can just go out and try to be the best you can be, deal with people with respect, with honesty, with integrity, have a high moral standard. I’ve always really tried to exemplify that as an athlete. I’ll continue to try to do that.

I’m not a person who defends myself very often. I kind of let my actions speak for me.

I knew I became a professional when I stop paying attention to what time it was.

Sometimes some of the toughest things you deal with end up being the best things because you realize the people that you can rely on, that love you and support you through it.

So many guys are so conservative with their hair, and I always joke with all my buddies when they mess with me, and I’ll say, ‘That’s right, keep the same haircut for ten years.’ How fun is that?

My sisters like cooking at my place. It has a bit more room, and the food tastes a little bit better. A big pot of spaghetti and sauce, some warm French bread – works all the time. I think I’ve been eating pasta for 26 years.

My job is to evaluate the field, pick the guy that I think is most open and make a good throw.

I approach every week the same. I think I’ve always tried to be very professional to how I approach the game, my preparation. Every game is important.

When you lose, talk little. When you win, talk less.

I think I have a certain respect for people, you know. And I guess a lot of times I expect that respect to go both ways.

I can’t do anything with what’s happened in the past. I have to just go forward with the most awareness I can going forward and trying to be the best I can be for our team.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.

In teaching, you do not want to COVER things, you want to UNCOVER them. The best way to get good ideas is to have lots of ideas.

Strike when thou wilt, the hour of rest, but let my last days be my best.

I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that’s just about the best kind of luck you can have.

But sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down.

My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.

And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.