My wife and I have been passionate about education being a gateway for upward mobility and equality.

At 33 years old, I think any player my age should take time to take inventory and see what their situation is and see how the body feels.

I just like playing ball.

This is not supposed to be a fascist country, where you are forced to do things you don't want to do. This is a free country.

Some people are tired of hearing me tweet because they want me to stick to football but I like to use social media like I was a regular guy because I think I am.

You may doubt the significance of your work, but work faithfully anyways.

Everyone fears change. But what you'll find is that change breeds your most important accomplishments.

You'll learn that the most worthwhile exercises are preceded by this very human phenomenon, fear. Marriage, parenthood, relationships.

Before I was a champion, I failed, and I was afraid.

I never mean to make a headline where it's like, 'Chris Long unsure.' I never try to make it sound like I'm under the impression it matters either way if I play or anybody cares.

I do believe that clean water is the most efficient way to change the world.

Playing eight years, never making the playoffs, you feel like you're running on a treadmill that's going nowhere. You're like, 'Is this it? Is this all football is?'

If I never got cut, I wouldn't have the Super Bowl ring.

Football, for me, wasn't a foregone conclusion. My parents didn't force me into it, and quite the opposite happened.

It wasn't like I loved football from 12 on. It took time.

I was a Panthers fan growing up, being close to Carolina.

One thing I take pride in is that I never cracked and stopped playing hard. There's something to be said for that, because life doesn't always throw the best situations at you.

There are always more people to prove wrong.

Even when I was being recruited here to the University of Virginia, a lot of people in my own community didn't think I was Division I football material because I played at a small private school.

I like having my dad around.

I'm very proud of my dad. To me, there are comparisons, but there aren't comparisons. We kind of play two different positions. He's a Hall of Famer, I'm not a Hall of Famer.

I've noticed that right tackles have gotten better in pass pro throughout my career.

There's no secret about it: Every team does things differently. Seattle runs their program one way. New England runs it another way. Philly runs it another way.

I don't know that I've gotten to the point where people know me more than my dad or that I ever will or even want to get to that point.

Baseball was always my favorite sport, and I thought it would be the sport I'd pursue for the long term. But I guess about my sophomore year in high school, I started really getting into football, and then it just took off from there.

The great thing is my dad was OK with whatever I wanted to do. He always supported me, and once I showed I was serious about football, that's when he really started to get involved and give me pointers.

If teams focus on me, that will allow my teammates to make plays.

My dad and I shared a lot of football memories.

I've dealt every day of my life with my dad's career, the comparisons to him, with people wanting me to live up to him. I just put that stuff out of my head, I don't even hear it after awhile - I just turn my ears off.

I'm a worker. I'm a grinder.

I think that's just the way football is supposed to be played, at a high speed.

My dad taught me to work hard and to be the same guy every day. If that's going 100 miles per hour and working hard, then that's what I'll do.

I do respect a man who doesn't settle.

I don't mind not being cool.

We rely more on enthusiasm than actual skill. Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically and people will like it more.

Coldplay fans are the best in the world. If you like Coldplay then you're obviously very intelligent and good looking and all-around brilliant.

My philosophy at the moment is that I'm great - and so is everybody else. You have to fit your own oxygen mask. That's really my philosophy now: our band is the best band in the world. And so are all the other bands.

I just want to make the best music of all time with my best friends.

I've never been cool and I don't really care about being cool. It's just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted.

I don't drink, I don't take drugs, I don't smoke.

I'm petrified of reincarnation because, you know, I like being me.

This person loves tangerines, This person loves raspberries - and my son won't even look at berries. Isn't that amazing? And so I have to apply that to music; otherwise, I would always hide in a hole because of all the people that don't like Coldplay.

I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.

People who write happy songs are often unhappy.

We aren't cool and never will be.

Sometimes we have criticism that is very constructive.

I'm not a great dancer. I'm a great advertisement for freedom of expression. I don't care what you think. I'm having a great time.

You gotta wear the right trousers if you're gonna be a rock star.

Economically, unfair trade will benefit nobody in the long run, as poorer countries will be bled totally dry and will become unable to produce anything.

There comes a point where it doesn't matter how many zeroes are at the end of your bank account.