“I quit because I didnt feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the game.”

I just felt like I had run out of steam. I just felt like it was my time.

As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot. When we were playing in the street, it was more touch football, so we didn’t hit each other into cars.

According to the United Nations’ latest count, of the approximately 3,000 languages spoken in the world today, only some 78 have a literature. Of those 78, a scant five or six enjoy a truly international audience.

Life doesn’t stop with football.

I’m from Kansas, so there were a lot of vacant lots and open fields to tackle each other in so we could avoid tackling each other on the street. But running on the street and trying not to get taken down on the concrete, that will make you fast, that’s for sure.

I don’t know the right way to retire.

Maybe a good rule in life is never become too important to do your own laundry.

I don’t dream football. I dream the American Dream – two cars in a garage, be a happy father.

The Heisman is the biggest award I’ve ever won.

Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.

I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best.

I’m a Jewish boy from Jersey. I was born with a strong sense of right and wrong, and a strong sense that the world can be a ludicrous, unfair, inhumane place.

If I could start with anybody, I would initially draft Tom Brady. Then I would go get Ray Lewis, and then maybe an offensive lineman, or somebody like Adrian Peterson.

I really love peace and quiet.

I didn’t know exactly what I wanted to do in school, but I definitely didn’t have adequate time to reach my full potential as a student.

My desire to exit the game is greater than my desire to remain in it. I have searched my heart through and through and feel comfortable with this decision.

That was a great game of golf, fellers.

I’ve been playing the game so long that my handicap is in Roman numerals.

It’s bad enough that I’m an actress that wants to be recognized as an actress. Instead, I am known for doing game shows.

Video games are engineered now, but the step I am trying to take, no one can engineer.

Athens will again be the host of the Games in 2004, but there are rumors that they might be switched if the Greeks don’t begin to construct the sites faster.

No one is strong enough – given the magnitude of the task, everyone has to step up their game.

Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.

Players win games, and coaches win players.