"I think my stubbornness, hardheadedness and stupidity is what has allowed me to play for 20 years."

"So much of a professional athlete's success depends upon not necessarily the play itself but how he deals with... always saying how you deal with good, is just as important as how you deal with bad."

"Wisconsin's a special place."

"You're never guaranteed about next year. People ask what you think of next season, you have to seize the opportunities when they're in front of you."

"I've always been a Packer, always will be a Packer."

"If I'm going to play, it's going to be 100-percent commitment."

"I've always shown up, always been prepared. Everything I do comes back to the example I want to set."

"Most talented players don't always succeed. Some don't even make the team. It's more what's inside."

"I think every player should think that he's a difference maker."

"Life deals you a lot lessons, some people learn from it, some people don't."

"Every game I've ever played, regardless if it was pre-season or Super Bowl, meant the same to me, and I laid it all on the line."

"You have to believe you're great. You have to have an air about you. My success wasn't because I was a great talent, but because I wanted it more than anybody else. Every minute I step on that field, I want to prove I'm the best player in the league."

"There are those people who are in your corner no matter what, you can't do any wrong, even when you do wrong. And then there are those people that no matter what you do they are going to dislike you and that's not going to change."

"If I were to make a list, I would include the interceptions, the sacks, the really painful losses. Those times when I've been down, when I've been kicked around, I hold on to those. In a way those are the best times I've ever had, because that's when I've found out who I am. And what I want to be."

"It's been six years since I have had a drink and I have two girls, and my priorities are a lot different now and I just can't believe I was that guy. And I would not go back, I would not trade the way I am now for anything."

"In my situation, unlike some players who retire because they have no choice - either teams don't want them or injuries have caused them to retire, and they just can't do it - for me, I really had never thought I would give out mentally before I gave out physically, but I think that was the case."

"I'd like to think, eight years ago, I was pretty humble and modest. But I think, with each year, you get more modest, more humble, more appreciative. The off the field tragedies put things in better perspective, but life happens to everybody, and I think we all just try to do the best we can."

"I never thought I would see it. I’m not saying it’s not possible. I’m not saying it didn’t happen. I don’t know. There’s a lot of guys getting picked on (in the locker room). Some handle it well, some don’t handle it as well. I’m not saying it’s right, and from a locker room sense or from a team sense, I’m not saying it’s wrong. It’s just the way it is."

"I consider myself more of a loner now and I think when you get older, especially in this game, and just talking with other players who have come and gone, I see what they were saying when I was a young guy in the locker room."

"Because after my first year I had a lot of success, took everybody by storm, came back the next year thought it was easy and didn't have near the season I had the previous year. It was kind of a wake-up call. And so, life goes on."

"And having a strong family, you know we've lost some members of our family and had some setbacks, but I think a good family and kids all those things I thought at one time... you got to be kidding me... Those things are so important they enable you to go on."

"I'm thankful for all the things that this job has given me and my family. But probably the thing that I am most proud of throughout my career is that, not only myself, but my family and the people around me have just been regular people, which we are."

"Sometimes you get caught up in what's going on around you. The reality is that you are just a regular person. At some point, the career will be over, the bright lights turn off. That can come back to haunt you if you're not just a regular guy."

"But when you lose a family member or something tragic happens, that stays with you forever. You never get over it. Knowing that you have to deal with that for the rest of your life... Football is important, but not as important as you once thought it was."

"You can lose a game but, I see guys every week including myself, you lose a game, it's a tough loss, you're down, two weeks later you forgot about it. You know it's amazing how down you were, but all of the sudden you're like it never happened."

"Initially, I know that I handled it worse than she did and I think partly because I've always been... every bit of adversity I've faced up until the last year and a half is adversity I brought upon myself - or the opposing teams have given me."

"I'd put a lot of work into playing guitar and was thinking I was pretty damn good. But Hendrix came along and destroyed everyone."

"We wouldn't have put it out with the name Queen on it if we didn't think it was musically up to scratch."

"What we were trying to do differently was this sort of layered sound."

"When we were touring heavily in America, we based ourselves there for a couple of years, but now we're all back here and it seems to be the place."

"I think Hammer's very cool: he has a great voice and great presence."

"Doing Made In Heaven was like assembling a jigsaw puzzle, but I wouldn't have put my seal of approval on it if I hadn't thought it was up to standard."

"A Queen track has those big, thick, block harmonies."

"I think Queen tribute bands are great. However, we have to keep them at arm's length, otherwise it could be too dangerous."

"I don't surf the net in general. I have someone do it for me instead, because I find it sluggish."

"This man (FreddieMercury) truly possessed the greatest voice in the history of rock. Journalists, culture experts and analysts have already made several hundred comments on this topic and nothing can be added here."

"My children hate me being such a big star. It's very hard for them to have a father who is always in the public eye."

"My big hobby is photography. I collect stereo photographs from the 19th century."

"You want to go in the steam bath to get your vocals sounding well, but you don't want your fingers to get soft."

"I've always lived in that guitar world. I have noticed kids being more into the real essence of guitar music now."

"For a time I didn't want to answer any questions about Queen. I'd like to be viewed as something alive and relevant, not some fossil."

"The potential audience seems to be dwindling in the states. I was kind of embarrassed for the band because of the size of the audience."

"If I go to places where other people are playing, I often get up and play myself. I just enjoy the sound and feel of playing."

"I had this idea... I wanted the sound to sing and have that thickness but yet still have an edge so that it could articulate. So my dad and I designed the guitar... the one that was made from an old fireplace."

"Queen had its time and place, and at the moment I'm not concentrating on that era."

"We've done "an "arrangement with an orchestra, but I think the best stuff tends to come when it's just the four of us."

"Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Thosethat focus on value creation will thrive."

"The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas at all."

"The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas"

"Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain"