“Confidence is only born out of one thing ­ demonstrated ability. It is not born of anything else. You cannot dream up confidence. You cannot fabricate it. You cannot wish it. You have to accomplish it.”

Hey fellas! This is what you work all off season for. This is why you lift all them weights! This is why you do all that!

I pay homage and respect to Bobby Womack [for Black History Month] knowing that he passed last year… Him being one of those artists that I have really sampled so much and just been so inspired by… You know, he is the original ‘soul man.’

People who announce they are going to the toilet. Thanks that’s an image I really didn’t need.

If I have affected someone in a positive way, that means a lot to me.

Creatures of similar plumages habitually congregate in places of closest proximity.

We are essentially telling society that life itself is not important enough to be called an inalienable right. If life itself is not the most fundamental of all rights, then what is?

I’m not really sure why. But… do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don’t think so. That’s what makes the betrayal hurt so much – pain, frustration, anger… and I still loved her. I still do.

The media dwells mostly on negativity.

Being arrested that also changed everything for me because I was suddenly seeing America from a different perspective all together. I did a couple of weeks in a county jail.

You ask yourself, ‘What do you want your legacy to be?’ I’m content at this point to say, ‘Those who follow me.’ Romeo Crennel, Bill Belichick, Sean Payton, to name a few. I think I’ve got a pretty good group, so far.

I like linebackers. I collect ’em. You can’t have too many good ones.

I think a lot of times people design restaurants with flash in mind. I think you should design restaurants with function in mind.

All the backs in the history of this game are the same when there isn’t any hole to run through.

My entire life has been spent thinking about this game. That’s pretty narrow… I don’t view myself as a person who’s well-versed in very many subjects. I’m not proud of that.

I grew up under demanding people, that demanded things from you, expected you to toe the mark.

If you have fun, fine. It’s not all life and death.

You cannot hope to heal when you are stuck some where between needing to get over them and still wishing for them to come back.

You blew me off to have your wish. But what other purpose do candles serve?

To all those who ever wished to hurt me, “ I am sorry that you broke when you hit me.”

Look at me, comforting you with the words I wish someone spoke to me.

I wish it had meant as little to me, as it did to you.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.