I was in the game for the love of football - and I wanted to bring back happiness to the people of Liverpool.
No one coaches what to do after three seconds, after the quarterback's broken the pocket or he's been in the pocket for five, six seconds.
Football is football and talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference.
Hard work pays off - hard work beats talent any day, but if you're talented and work hard, it's hard to be beat.
In a land of freedom we are held hostage by the tyranny of political correctness.
There's far more that goes into being a professional athlete than being a college athlete. So many differences that people don't realize. It's not just about playing football and getting paid to do it. There's a lot of things that you have to deal with.
I hope somebody falls in love with me - other than my fiancee. But that's what you want. As a player you want a team that really wants you; head coach, GM, owner, everybody that really wants you in their place and the players believe in you. I'm looking forward to making somebody fall in love with me.
When I was a young boy in San Francisco, I remember being sent home - I was playing with a friend. And I remember the mother saying, tell Jeffrey to go home. And I said to the girl, I said, why? She goes, my mother says that you're the people who killed Christ.
I can't say I'm not nervous at all with media and doing speeches, but I'm getting used to it and better at it, hopefully.
Whether you are aware of them or not, whether you recognize them as spiritual or not, you probably have had the experiences of silence, or transcendence, or the Divine-a few seconds, a few minutes that seem out of time; a moment when the ordinary looks beautiful, glowing; a deep sense of being at peace, feeling happy for no reason. When these experiences come. . . believe in them. They reflect your true nature.
Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.