“But I want to be the first back to have back-to-back 2,000-yard seasons.”

He didn’t move a muscle, not one inch, and he didn’t drop one tear. I tell you that and you are probably like, “Wow, how is that even possible?”

I have to continue to be a great leader and contribute in any way that I can, and get guys to follow suit.

I understand that my son loves me and I love him, and everything just really got blown out of proportion, and I’m OK with that.

To me, when you got a 20-year-old running back or 21-year-old receiver that’s just coming out of college and you’re out working these guys.

But I’m still from the country. I love my fried food and my neck bones and all that, too.

I want to win four or five championship rings. That’s how I dream. I dream big.

So it’s a lot of different things that I do. I don’t want to overload the body too much, but when we do the hill, it’s not like workouts.

It’s modern-day slavery.

When I go out on the field, I just put it in my mind that I’m playing for my family.

When I’m out, maybe I’m looking at the fried chicken, but I know I need to order the grilled.

It’s not like I had to throw the football and deal with that as well.

We are human, so we do go through pain and we struggle with things, but it’s all about how you respond to a situation.

But as far as the parenting lesson, no [I understood that]. To me it was so simple, it was a situation where I disciplined my child and it didn’t turn out the way I wanted.

Thankfully, I’m lucky enough to be able to eat ice cream.

At the end of the day, nine times out of 10, they are going to win.

Older guys, and even younger guys, are asking me questions and [they] ask me about how to handle situations.

You know, sometimes I feel like I walk around with a target on my back with the films I make.

Don’t decide yet,” Hephaestus advised. “Wait until daybreak. Daybreak is a good time for decisions.

I think I write for reluctant readers. Of course I want everyone to enjoy my books, but if the kids in the back row who normally don’t pick up a book are engaged with what I’m writing, along with the kids who are big readers anyway, then I really feel like I’ve done my job.

I take that back. If hank wants to shoot scott, he has my blessing.

I got a fan letter on the back of a prison menu. And I remember thinking, ‘Well, they get pie. It’s not so bad. They get pie on the weekends.’ I want to say blueberry and also a Boston cream pie. Not so bad.

I kissed him, trying to bring him back. I kissed him and let my lips rest against his so that our breath mingled and the tears from my eyes became salt on his skin, and I told myself that, somewhere, tiny particles of him would become tiny particles of me, ingested, swallowed, alive, perpetual.

I told him I’d think about it and then my pops called and said something like that so I decided to revert back and then.

How do we fight back? By creating art.