Grasses are misty, The waters silent- A tranquil evening.
I speak on things I'd like to speak on. Anything else, I'll keep quiet.
I'm not saying [racial profiling] doesn't happen; I'm saying I haven't experienced it.
Anybody can say they want to be the greatest ever. I take pride in it. If you're around me long enough and watch me work, that's what I'm striving for. I won't stop until I am.
I try to act as a man of character if no one is watching or if the world is watching.
The one thing I learned early on as a football player is people have their opinions, and I can't change them. But I can show them what they're missing.
People have assumed that I have to run the ball before I can throw it most all of my career, all the way back before high school. It's a stereotype put on me for a long time because I'm African-American and I'm a dual-threat quarterback. I don't know why that stereotype is still around. It's about talent and the ability to throw the ball, not the color of your skin or your ability to also be a dangerous runner.
I came first to America in 1977 at the invitation of a man who wanted to make my life story into a musical. But my agent said it was not to be and it was never done. So I went back, but I'd seen New York, and I wanted to live there. Because everybody talks to you in the street. See, nobody talks to you in England.
Work is born in us. We take to it kindly or unkindly. The terms may be easy or harsh, but the contract is binding.
Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.
I see nothing wrong ethically with the idea of correcting single gene defects through genetic engineering. But I am concerned about any other kind of intervention, for anything else would be an experiment, which would impose our will on future generations and take unreasonable chances with their welfare. . . Thus such intervention is beyond the scope of consideration.