“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.”

Relaxed Empiricism — I only believe something to be true if someone I know quite well tells me if happened.

Give role players love. Praise can be most valuable when it’s merited by someone whose supporting role is often overlooked

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.

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.

In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged.

It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.

Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.

Term limits aren’t enough. We need jail.

I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.

What really resonated with my students, I think, is that most of the writers we worked with were journalists, and when they saw journalists simply raising questions and being put in jail for that, it did freak them out a little bit.

I ain’t going to jail no more. The only way we gonna stop them white men from whuppin’ us is to take over. What we gonna start sayin’ now is Black Power!

There are very few people who have committed more to the pro-life discourse than Rob has. He’s spent time in jail. He has really lived it.