Quotes

From Day One I always wanted to be a role model. For me, that's who I am.

Being there for my son, being there for my wife, just being a better man. That's all I know.

You go through all the training camps, all the blood and sweat and tears. I think you play for the guys in the locker room. We don't play for anybody else.

I hate turf. I feel like turf has always hurt me.

I hurt my toe on turf and I hurt my ankle. I never got hurt on grass.

I put a lot into my body on and off the field that really gets me ready for the next day.

You can't take anything for granted so I have to keep working.

There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients.

The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one. A Stanford study showed that those who saw a photo of their future self made smarter financial decisions.

I have little shame, no dignity - all in the name of a better cause.

The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.

I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.

It's sort of my job to feel good.

I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.

I was very good at sitting. But I just read so much research about how horrible sitting is for you. It's like, it's really bad. It's like Paula-Deen-glazed-bacon-doughnut bad. So I now move around as much as possible.

I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.

My goal? To test out every diet and exercise regimen on planet earth and figure out which work best. I sweated, I cooked, I learned to pole dance. In the end, I lost weight, lowered my cholesterol and doubled my energy level. I feel better than I ever have.

You can't be a victim and heal.

I have a great life and I'm super active.

I don't look at myself as suffering.

You have to trust your body to take care of you.

If I'm not living from my heart, I get sick.

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.