"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Being a runner means you are now "free" to win and lose and live life to its fullest."

"I like rain, actually."

"We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor."

"My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side."

"She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death."

"It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine."

"You yourself never loved; you never love! Yes, I too can love; you yourselves can tell it from the past. Is it not so?"

"She is one of God's women fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth."

"Welcome to my house! Enter freely. Go safely, and leave something of the happiness you bring."

"Truly there is no such thing as finality."

"Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands."

"Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me."

"And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere 'modernity' cannot kill."

"Good women tell all their lives, and by day and by hour and by minute, such things that angels can read."

"It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import."