“The guys that are out there now like Calvin Johnson and Larry Fitzgerald they’re making $16 million, $15 million a year, and I’m not looking for anything like that. A lot of that money goes to the quarterback position and rightfully so.”

One thing that I don’t like about us as a people is that, when we don’t have the same view as somebody, a lot of times we bash that person.

I think caring more about flags than people is an issue. I’d like to see that change.

As far as police go, if officers are really that scared or timid [on the streets], maybe they shouldn’t be police officers. Their job is to protect and serve and they’re supposed to be the bravest of the brave.

If I wasn’t playing football, I’d be a juvenile probation officer.

Then again, if the plant is slow growing, and you are getting older, you may want to start with a larger plant. I find myself buying larger plants each year.

If the federal government is going to cost $100 million or more of your jobs going away, at a minimum the people who are elected by the people ought to have to vote and say, yes, I support taking away your job; or no, I don’t support taking away your job.

If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.

Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.

We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.

You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created.

For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes.

I’ve written many love songs for Gerard. But it’s never enough. I feel that he deserves a million love songs written for him.

You hear all these stories about, ‘There’s one in a million guys that make it to the NBA and stay there.’ To see people cheering for me and when they say my name, it’s just crazy. It’s still crazy to me.