"A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing."

"They knew a tremendous number of things — But was it worthwhile knowing all these things if they did not know the one important thing, the only important thing?"

"People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading."

"Now, the funny thing about growing up in Texas is that people who aren't from there just assume we ride horses to school and do all this weird stuff, like we're living in a rodeo every day of our live…"

"That's why it's so much easier for me to try to locate the bodies than it is to talk about the actual thing. It's so much more positive such as it could be."