“The way to be successful is through preparation. It doesn’t just happen.”

You could measure the lasting impact on the lives of the people who played it at just about zero.

I felt like I played in a very rough football game with no hitting above the waist.

How on earth can otherwise sensible people get so involved in a football game?

You don’t wake up one day and discover you’re a lawyer any more than you wake up as a pro football player. It takes time.

Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it’s still just work.

Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.

Gerard is just like me, but two meters tall. We’re very alike; it’s not for nothing that we were born on the same day, it’s just that he was born 10 years later… he’s a happy guy, healthy here, in the head.

To live factionless Is not just to live in poverty and discomfort; it is to live divorced from society, separated from the most important thing in life: community.

Do I do this to you?, he wondered, as he watched her eat. Or is this just the relief of being out from under the forbidden eye of that husband of yours?

And then you walk into a room one day, whether it’s at university or an office or some kind of club, and you just go, ‘Ah. There they are.’ And suddenly you feel at home.

Just strengthening that theme that America is a place of opportunity and hoping to inspire people to fulfill those opportunities, and to want more, and to want better, and to see the places we can go. So many people identify with me because of the place that I come from.

Hang on, did you just call me angel?” i asked.”if i did?i don’t like it.”he grinned. “it stays, angel.