Lawrence Taylor
Lawrence Taylor

Steroids are for guys who want to cheat opponents.

Lawrence Taylor
Lawrence Taylor

There were probably about five games in my career where everything was moving in slow motion and you could be out there all day, totally in the zone, and you don't even know where you are on the field, everything is just totally blocked out.

Lawrence Taylor
Lawrence Taylor

I like companies that try and break away from the norm.

Lawrence Taylor
Lawrence Taylor

They would almost throw the cops in jail when they tried to arrest me.

Lawrence Taylor
Lawrence Taylor

In football, you can always maim a person if you wanted to.

Lawrence Taylor
Lawrence Taylor

People get hurt all the time in the game of football, it's part of what we do.

Lawrence Taylor
Lawrence Taylor

LT was just a wilder person. I don't go that route no more.

Lawrence Taylor
Lawrence Taylor

I had everything working my way, strong as a bull. And still I ignored the rules of the game of life.

Lawrence Taylor
Lawrence Taylor

If they play dirty, then you play dirty.

Lawrence Taylor
Lawrence Taylor

I played one game, and one game played me.

Lawrence Taylor
Lawrence Taylor

You try to stay within the rules for the sake of the game, but you can always turn up the intensity.

Lawrence Taylor
Lawrence Taylor

I guess another message I'd like to say with this book is no matter how many times you fail... I failed a lot of times trying to get clean, and never thought I'd get to this point.

Lawrence Taylor
Lawrence Taylor

Taking them out of the picture, so to speak, what football really is, the savagery, the core root of football, it doesn't change. It really puts the real in football.

Lawrence Taylor
Lawrence Taylor

And I tell ya, when I sit in that sound booth and started reading the script and starting to get into the character, man, it's an easy jump for me, because I understand what it's all about.

Lawrence Taylor
Lawrence Taylor

And once you cross over into that world, no matter how strong you are, you have to pay the price.

Lawrence Taylor
Lawrence Taylor

As players, we always have a way to get back at you.

Lawrence Taylor
Lawrence Taylor

But every day I tell my story, and be comfortable with my story and be comfortable with what I've done, and what I did, and how I am today, it lessens the likelihood it will ever happen.

Lawrence Taylor
Lawrence Taylor

First of all, a player has to know what is banned and what is not banned.

Lawrence Taylor
Lawrence Taylor

Football is not part of that lifestyle anymore.

Lawrence Taylor
Lawrence Taylor

Hopefully the new breed of kids won't have to go through that hard lesson - my kids, my grandkids, my fans' kids, hopefully they won't have to go through it.