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Bill Belichick and Tom Brady are the masters of finding something that you didn't suspect.

Bottom line is, if you turn the ball over to a team that isn't as good, you then have brought them up to your level.

Boy, do I hate to lose.

Calculated risks are part of what you do, but the idea that something completely crazy will work just because it's completely crazy is completely crazy.

Come on Sandy, baby, loosen up, your too tight.

Cause there's only one reason for doing anything that you set out to do. If you don't want to be the best, then there's no reason going out and trying to accomplish anything.

Change isn't always bad; we should always be learning and improving. But the change I was seeing involved principles, not procedures.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by

Concentrate on what will produce results rather than on the results, the process rather than the prize.

Don't do anything in practice that you wouldn't do in the game.

Concussions is one of these pack journalism issues, frankly. There's no increase in concussions. The number is relatively small. The problem is, it is a journalist issue.

Emmitt Smith is someone that I have great respect for - as a player, a competitor and a person. His contributions to the organization and the NFL speak for themselves.

Each person holds so much power within themselves that needs to be let out. Sometimes they just need a little nudge, a little direction, a little support, a little coaching, and the greatest things can happen.

Do the best work you can do and try not to worry about the fact that you are a woman covering the NFL and you have never played the sport before. Just focus on the story and study, prepare and deliver the best report possible.

Everybody's got an opinion. Leaders are paid to make a decision. The difference between offering an opinion and making a decision is the difference between working for the leader and being the leader.

Every job has its pros and cons. The NFL just has more of both.

Every day is not perfect.

Every guy has different strengths in the NFL. Receivers are different, running backs are different, but they all have that one thing that they do thats special: that thing that keeps them on the roster every year.

Expect rejection, but expect even more strongly to overcome it.

Every new generation of LGBT Americans needs to be inspired by leaders who come out - whether in Congress, the nonprofit sector, the NFL, or corner offices of Fortune 100 companies.

Every TV timeout, I went up and said it right to Brady: 'Please keep trying me. I'm going to take it from you.'

Faith is a strong word in my life. That's one thing my mother has always stressed to me.

First become a winner in life. Then it's easier to become a winner on the field.

Fencing is more a sport than a martial art. It would be like basing your knowledge of roman phalanx warfare on NFL football.

Find out what the other team wants to do. Then take it away from them.

Football is not a game but a religion, a metaphysical island of fundamental truth in a highly verbalized, disguised society, a throwback of 30,000 generations of anthropological time.

Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

Football is unconditional love.

Football players, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers.

God's definition of success is really one of the significant differences our lives can make in the lives of others.

God has brought me this far. He has laid out a phenomenal path for me. And I can't do anything but thank him.

Fraud is common when you give away billions. Fraud related to Hurricane Katrina spending is estimated to top $2 billion. In addition, debit cards provided to hurricane victims were used to pay for Caribbean vacations, NFL tickets, Dom Perignon champagne, 'Girls Gone Wild' videos, and at least one sex change operation.

God bless those runners because they get you the first down, give you ball control and keep your defense off the field. But if you want to ring the cash register, you have to pass.

God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight.

Going out on the field frantic isn't going to help you score points. You have to try to lead your team.

Hell, I live like I did when I was 35. I don't believe in retirement groups because I don't believe in retirement. How long can I keep coaching? How about forever? I'll never walk off the field.

Having failed as an NFL commentator, Limbaugh understands the power of football.

He can be a great player in this league if he learns how to say two words: "I'm full.

He has to be a great teacher. You have to have the right stuff and in the right proportions, and you have to convey that to the coaches, and then to the players.

He knew who I was, at that time, because I had a reputation as a writer. I knew he was part of the Bush dynasty. But he was nothing, he offered nothing, and he promised nothing. He had no humor. He was insignificant in every way and consequently I didn't pay much attention to him. But when he passed out in my bathtub, then I noticed him. I'd been in another room, talking to the bright people. I had to have him taken away.

He knocks the hell out of people, but in a Christian way.

He runs like a camel. A really pissed off camel.

He who gets the best players usually wins.

He’s totally different from the typical jock. He has no ego. That’s unique for someone with such accolades. His strength comes from a higher power. You can’t explain Steve Largent by computer – he doesn’t belong on an NFL field. You put his size and speed in an IBM computer up in Silicon Valley, it would chew up his data card and laugh.

I actually called a touchdown on national TV in the NFL while going to the bathroom.

Hopefully one day I can be up there with Peyton in terms of history.

I always wanted everyone to like me. I wanted the city of Pittsburgh to be proud of me. But my first few seasons, I could to count the number of people on my bandwagon on one finger.

I always tell people I want to live to be 150 and they say why would you want to do that. I say, well there's a few people I haven't made mad yet, I want to get them.

I always thought I could coach. I just thought people were poor judges of good coaches.

I always thought I could play pro ball. I had confidence in my ability, You have to. If you don't who will?