Quotes

It's fun running out onto the field. It's much more fun playing in the playoffs.

Cleaning out your locker the first week of January is not a whole lot of fun and it always leaves a lousy taste in your mouth.

I know I'm going to shoot a buffalo.

I'm a South Dakota kid.

Looking back on it, I'm extremely blessed to play on two very good teams, with great quarterbacks and owners.

Three surgeries on the same limb, that's a tall order.

When you get one blocked and another partially blocked, you've got to see if you're hitting them low or what.

It would be fun if I were 40 pounds heavier and a little bit faster to get in and play some linebacker.

In the end, the Super Bowl is just a football game. You try to take a couple of big, deep breaths and convince yourself it's just another game. You try to, anyway.

I think you can develop your ability to be clutch, if that's the word that you will use, your ability to focus and to be able to block out all the external stuff.

There's some guys - Michael Jordan and Mariano Rivera and Tiger Woods - that were blessed with the ability just to be... great.

Preparation meets opportunity, and that causes success if you're prepared to do your job and you practice a lot, more times than not you're going to be successful.

NFL Europe helped me quite a bit. It was a situation where I came out of college and spent the first few months of my career over in Europe.

When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.

G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.

Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?

And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.

But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.

Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.

Nothing would be more profitable to us than a right history of mankind.

It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.

Morality will perform all this; and Morality is the fruit of Illumination.

I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.

The hankering of the mind is irresistible.

The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch, the priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.