When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?
You learn how to be a gracious winner and an outstanding loser.
I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.
When you win, nothing hurts.
I've figured out that life in general is a team effort; it's a team game.
Till I was 13, I thought my name was 'Shut Up.'
We're going to win Sunday. I guarantee it.
After my first knee operation, in January of '65 before I went to the Jets, Dr. James Nicholas told me everything went well and that I could probably play four years in the NFL. The surgery was trailblazing to a certain extent.
I don't care what a man is as long as he treats me right. He can be a gambler, a hustler, someone everybody else thinks is obnoxious, I don't care so long as he's straight with me and our dealings are fair.
To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.
First, I prepare. Then I have faith.
There are some things you only learn through experience.
The name of the game is 'kill the quarterback.' Every football team tries to knock the guy out of the game that's handling the ball.
My ego's not the kind that says, 'I want to be an actor and be accepted as that.'
What I do is prepare myself until I know I can do what I have to do.
I don't like going out on a date unless I know the broad a little bit beforehand. By the way, 'broad' to me is not a detrimental term for women; it's simply another word for female. Anyway, I don't really go out a whole lot, because there aren't many girls I like to take out and spend a whole evening with - at least not an evening in public.
Most of my recognition comes from us winning that championship. The words may not come out - 'Super Bowl III' - because a lot of the folks at the grocery store, gas station or mall weren't even born when we won the Super Bowl. But they're aware of it. It has had a tremendous impact on my life since then.
My family's the most important thing in my life.
Until my senior year, baseball and basketball were my best sports; and even when I was a senior, I still wanted to play baseball professionally. But the family wanted me to go to college, and I guess I agreed with them, or else I would have accepted some of the offers I got.
