Growing up, I found I was good at two things: Art and Math. To hear my parents say it, though, it was only, 'John is good at Math.'
Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.
Seducing him in the tub smelling of vinegar was out of the question. There had to be some boundaries.
Lying is second nature and I do it very well. Titus Ray, Chapter 5
Prayer wasn't a familiar practice in my life. --Titus Ray, Chapter 2
Life's too short. You may be on this planet for 80 years at best or who knows, but you can't just pedal around and do the same thing forever.
Cause there's only one reason for doing anything that you set out to do. if you don't want to be the best, then there's no reason going out and trying to accomplish anything.
I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!
I just feel that after the season that we have to sit down - as well as myself, everybody - and try and look at what gives us the best opportunity to move going forward.
I try to keep my confidence on the charts, but I'm a confident guy as well. You've got to be that way. If you don't think that you're the best, then you won't perform that way.
I don't play too much into the color game, because I don't want to be the best African American quarterback, I want to be the best quarterback.
Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.
I am an honest, God-fearing man who is intensely dedicated to being the best person I can be on and off the football field.
My job is to play quarterback, and I'm going to do that the best way I know how, because I owe that to my teammates regardless of who is out there on the field with me.
When I wrote my cookbook, 'I Love Crab Cakes,' I asked some of my best chef buddies to contribute recipes.
I'm just here to compete and do the best I can and let things play out and just be the best teammate I can be, regardless of the situation.
I'm a storyline. I'm the chosen one for negative stories and controversial things. If I worried about it all, I would go insane.
My job is to defeat the guy in front of me, do it until he quits, and then wait for them to send in the next guy.
Some people have this impression of me: 'Boy, he's always so serious on the field. Football. Football. Football.'
We can scale the heights of mountains and see the world rayed out before us, but we fail to recognize that which is before us.
Sunglasses are a bit like watches for me - a real obsession. My favourites are Oakleys, Ray-Bans and Wileys, which are worn by the U.S. military.
