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...

You learn how to be a gracious winner and an outstanding loser.

My ego’s not the kind that says, ‘I want to be an actor and be accepted as that.’

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.

I was a very naive young man, and I may still be ignorant about a lot of things.

I don’t like to date so much as I just like to kind of, you know, run into somethin’, man.

If you’re not gonna go all the way, why go at all?

How you recover from what life’s throwing at you is what matters.

What I do is prepare myself until I know I can do what I have to do.

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...

I can’t compare family to athletics.