“Once a Raider, always a Raider.”

They said you had to take what the defense gave you. No, we are going to take what we want.

If it weren’t for a new rule that came into being, we’d have played three years in a row in the championship game.

Approximately four years ago, we were told that Jerry Rice would be a free agent and there were people who felt that he no longer could contribute.

I have never forgiven myself…that I might have made a mistake.

I’d like my next head coach to be winning oriented.

Time never stops for the great ones.

We would rather be feared than respected.

One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths.

They say…the stopwatch never lies. Speed kills but absolute speed kills absolutely.

The quarterback must go down, and he must go down hard

One of his great virtues, the fire that burned brightest in him, was his love and passion for football, which was seldom ever equaled.

You don’t adjust. You just dominate.

You have to win and you have to win with a vision for the Super Bowl. That’s our passion here.

The greatness of the Raiders lies in their future.

It’s not important to be consistent, it’s important to be right.

A helluva athlete, the best ever to play his position in the history of the game.

Once you are labeled ‘the best’ you want to stay up there, and you can’t do it by loafing around.

You don’t have to solve every problem at once.

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends.

My mother, Southern to the bone, once told me, “All Southern literature can be summed up in these words: ‘On the night the hogs ate Willie, Mama died when she heard what Daddy did to Sister.’” She raised me up to be a Southern writer, but it wasn’t easy.

I do not have any other way of saying it. I think it happens but once and only to the very young when it feels like your skin could ignite at the mere touch of another person. You get to love like that but once.

I couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.