I try to tell people to keep having hope. It's always what you don't know and don't expect that's gonna be so great.
That helped us nurture not only the game's traditions but to develop its mythology: America's Team, The Catch, The Frozen Tundra.
Life is great, football is better.
Life is good. Football is better.
My father always used to say ‘treat everyone as a gentleman; not because they are, but because you are. ’
My dad has a great expression. He always says, 'Tell me a fact and I'll learn, tell me the truth and I believe, but tell me a story, and it will live in my heart forever. ' Interestingly enough now, my dad's story is going to be in Canton and hopefully that will live forever, too.
But I can tell you this: Nothing will happen up there that can duplicate my life down here. That life cannot be better than the one I've lived down here, the football life. It's been perfect.
And at that moment a wind came out of the northwest, and entered the woods and bared the golden branches, and danced over the downs, and led a company of scarlet and golden leaves, that had dreaded this day but danced now it had come; and away with a riot of dancing and glory of colour, high in the light of the sun that had set from the sight of the fields, went wind and leaves together.
For the material, at best, is only temporal, or temporary, while that which may be built from spiritual desire, spiritual purposes, is eternal.
Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.
God does not live in a perpetual state of disappointment over who we are.