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"I don't teach kids to be number 1. Organizations and people that tell you you have to be number 1; that's not it. You don't have to be number 1. What I teach is to be as good as you can be. Use what you have and be as good as you can be. That's all you can do, anyway."
"At Georgia Southern, we don't cheat. That costs money and we don't have any."
"If you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold, you gotta know the password, "Roll, Tide, Roll!""
"Most players don't mind drug testing once they realize they don't have to study for it."
"If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat."
"When you have a problem, rules don't solve your problem. It's caring and education."
"In college, you had to worry about that math class or this exam that's coming up on Tuesday, but not in the professionals. You eat, sleep, and do everything related to your craft - and your craft is football. You can be at it from sunup to sundown."
"I played futsal growing up in Baurd. In futsal you need to think quick and play quick so its easier for you when you move to normal football."
"There are two kinds of people in the world, observers and non-observers."
"I learned how to take other people's mechanisms of promoting their stuff through me as opposed to promoting my own stuff, as far as getting Snoop DeVilles, SnoopDeGrills, Snoop Doggy Dogg biscuits, Snoop Dogg record label, Snoop Dogg bubble gum, Snoop Youth Football League."
"Every time you lose you die a little bit. You die inside...a portion of you. Not all of your organs. Maybe just your liver."
"Football's a difficult business and aren't they prima donnas. But it's a wonderful game."
"You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat."
"I had this urge to play the game of football because so many people said I couldn't do it."
"I'd rather play lacrosse six days a week and football on the seventh."
"I don't want to be the center of attention, which is ironic. I hate having all eyes on me - unless it's for my job, and my job is playing football. I'm not that attention-hungry."
"Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture."
"We don't need no more rappers, we don't need no more basketball players, no more football players. We need more thinkers. We need more scientists. We need more managers. We need more mathematicians. We need more teachers. We need more people who care; you know what I'm saying? We need more women, mothers, fathers, we need more of that, we don't need any more entertainers"
"You've got a goal in life. I've got a goal. Now all we need is a football team."
"I'm in pro football to win, to have the Raiders dominate, to have the Raiders global, and we're not going to be able to do that with a half-filled stadium."
