A lot of coaches and players get so tunnel-visioned that when they do have some time off, they spend it concentrating on the game.
I have an idea of marriage as being a sharing type of deal.
I didn't know anybody who went to Rangers games. Then, when they started winning and going to World Series, everybody's wearing Rangers hats.
Look, the only way for me to enjoy the game is to be consumed by it, to compete at a level where I know, at the end of that game, that my teammates and I did our absolute best.
I've lived in Texas now longer than anywhere and then California and then Oklahoma, but yet Oklahoma is what I consider home.
As a player, you can't express ideas and opinions as easily as when you're doing a ballgame.
If you do anything with the Cowboys, there's an interest in it. And there are people who constantly want to write books about our teams in the '90s. They want to interview me. I say, 'Look, I've done it a million times. I'm just not interested. What's left to tell?'
What I am is a direct result of how I was raised.
It's who you get to share life with, not the actual experiences, that makes living so worthwhile.
I always have been comfortable with my opinions and how I feel about the play on the field, and how it should be done and how teams should go about playing the game.
At one time, watching football was an event. Monday Night Football was a big event.
I am not too open of a person. I don't really understand why someone holding a notepad and pen thinks he can ask me anything and then is offended when I don't answer.
There are not many Chicagos, where people go out and support their sports teams, whether they are struggling or not.
I was 22 my rookie year.
Not long ago, every time I did a picture shoot for a magazine, the photographer would ask me to show up wearing jeans and cowboy boots. They seemed to think I was a hillbilly. Now it's different. Now they're not quite sure what to make of me. And I show up wearing whatever I want.
Winning is hard. Repeating is harder.
Most people assume you change with success.
I always play every game in my mind before it begins. A lot of times in a game, a play will happen, and it will feel like deja vu, like I've seen the play happen before in my mind.
They portray me as a hick just because I enjoy some of the things people in Oklahoma like. I think people expect me to come out wearing my boots and spurs.
My 21st birthday was probably the worst day of my life.
