I wanted to be a professional athlete. Young men and women from Montana don't make it to the professional level that often. And I always believed that because I was a great football player that made me better than you. And that's not the case at all.

When you're talking to potential professional athletes, I really like to talk about the fact that even though you're a great athlete, that doesn't make you a good person. And if you can build that foundation first, everything else usually follows suit.

Everybody's got some things that have happened bad in their past. Mine was just very public.

A lot of times people say they want a fresh start, but you can't really have a fresh start because it doesn't happen that way.

Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.

In professional sports, you live in the moment, and that's what I love about it.

The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself.

The only thing I've ever wanted to do is play professional football, and be a professional quarterback, so now that it's here and it's getting close, it's just kind of making all that pain and suffering and waiting and working hard worth it.