“At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest. When I didn't collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.”

“Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.”

“No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.”

“We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.”

“When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.”

“My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.”

“I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.”

“The key to winning is choosing to do God's will and loving others with all you've got.”

“I'm proud to be part of the Dr. Pepper Scholarship Giveaway. It's a great program that gives me the chance to brighten the day for some lucky college students with free tuition.”

“I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.”

“In football, it's the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.”