“After all, the average playing life of a pro football player is about eight years and it is only fitting that the veterans get something for their efforts.”

I attribute my entire football career, as far as getting me started, getting me interested, keeping me that way was my father. He went to every game even though he was crippled and wasn’t real healthy.

I thought he was one of the best quarterbacks at the time when I was very young, he was in his prime.

I think when you are the parents of a gifted athlete, the best thing in the world you can do is to encourage them, in my opinion. My dad didn’t push me and I didn’t push my children in athletics.

Today, free agency takes away a lot of your heroes, they go somewhere else. Some of them don’t but a lot of them do-take the higher offer to go somewhere else. And, it turns the fans off because they get attached to the players.

My first reaction was to ring him up. Then I remembered he was out there playing.

Half of it is absolutely genuine, and half of it is us playing around with that fact.

The same way you can hear a song in your head even if there isn’t a radio playing; the same way you can hear those blackbirds flying when they’re not in the sky

When you commit to being a musician, I don’t think you’re really sure or care about when you’re going to pay the bills.

I don’t think you care about that as much as you care about playing music.

When I was kid, I remember playing ‘Vogue’ by Madonna over and over and over again.

When you’re picking a basketball team, you’ll take the brother over the guy with the yarmulke. Why? Because you’re playing the odds.

At Texas, I was a football player playing baseball. And the way I play I think I still am.