Fat is one of the chief enemies of the heart because it has to be plentifully supplied with blood and thus needlessly increases the pumping load that the heart must sustain.
As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested in dodging a blow than in striking one.
On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.
The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.
I was the kind of child who worked hard every day with the cows and sheep - I was a very aggressive boy.
Why should I say I will retire in three or four years? You retire the very moment you utter those words.
I always tell young athletes the same thing, 'Wherever you go, whatever you do, what must your top priority be? Running.'
I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don't dream I will make it, I won't even get close.
I try to make myself happy, no, because I know that if I'm not happy, my colleagues are not happy and my shareholders are not happy and my customers are not happy.
I've been hit in the head so many times, it's hard to remember that far back. I don't remember specific games.
I'm not an extreme tree-hugger. I do believe trees grow and are a useful agricultural product that can be harvested without damaging the ecology and wildlife.
I think private ownership is generally superior to public because you care about the land more and it doesn't get trashed.
They're on the right road, but there's a long way to go on concussions, not only in the NFL, but college football, high school football and all football.
If someone remembers me as a coach, they still call me 'Coach,' but if they know me for the video game, they just call me 'Madden.'
Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.
No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.
There definitely needs to be water on the sidelines for these players, but I also had some Gatorade just in case they were allergic to the water or vice versa.
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.
I've been some through some things medically. I've seen some things on my brain. But I've had some treatment - and I've improved.
I think Ray Guy and John Madden for sure should be in the Hall of Fame and Cliff Branch should be as well.
I get daily mentions in blogs, I get mentions in Twitter and in different social media... I know that gets books sold.
