Winning is like shaving -- you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.

There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.

Football is a metaphor for the kind of country we want to create. It's based on merit.

Democracy is not a mathematical deduction proved once and for all time. Democracy is a just faith fervently held, commitment to be tested again and again in the fiery furnace of history.

Pro football gave me a good perspective. When I entered the political arena, I had already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded, and hung in effigy.