The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers. The economic basis of this contest was the power to tax, to float bonds, to award franchise: in short, to gain control over the financial resources of the newly organized States.

I will never reject an autograph, hug or photo. I was also a football fan.

I still remember when my teacher told me that football wouldn’t give me anything to eat.

In football, I don't have a lot of friends. The people who I really trust, there are not many... Most of the time, I'm alone.

There's no point in making predictions. It's not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.

I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don't believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.

I see football as an art and all players are artists.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

I love Halloween trick or treating and decorating the house. And I love Thanksgiving because of the football and the fall weather. And of course I love Christmas - that's my favorite of all!

Football taught me how hard you had to work to achieve something.

As a kid I was always mad - just noticing the women at Thanksgiving running around the kitchen while the men were watching football. For one I don't want to cook and for two I hate football. I was stuck in the middle.

Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is simply a good excuse not to play football.

The reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.

Where does it stop? You get offered money for your wedding then for your kids new houses holidays... We earn enough from football and sponsorships why do you need any more?

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state it is an army with banners.

Truth is tough. It will not break like a bubble at the touch nay you may kick it about all day like a football and it will be round and full at evening.

The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It's part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas and like those holidays beyond their meaning a factor in our economy.

Truth is tough. It will not break like a bubble at a touch nay you may kick it about all day like a football and it will be round and full at evening.

The first few weeks football players look at you like you are speaking a foreign language. My job is to get them to trust me trust the system. I ask them to run in a way that makes no sense to them.

As a former football player who has carried a football more than 4 000 times trust me I did not go into ballroom dancing with my body being 100 percent with no aches or pains or ailments coming with me. When you're dancing you're doing stuff that your body's not used to and so you start to aggravate those old injuries.

I love to take risks I love to travel and I'm very outdoor-sy so any girl who can pick up a football and throw a spiral will definitely catch my attention.

I stepped away to find out more about myself which I was having difficulty doing as a football player. I got a chance to travel the world. I studied Eastern philosophy and I've grown as a person so much.

I'm really looking forward to the Hall of Fame ceremonies. It's going to be unbelievable - just crazy. I'm looking forward to thanking all the fans for inspiring me to go out there and play my best football each and every game.

Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people I did not choose acting acting chose me. I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football. In about 9th grade an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school so I did on a whim. I got accepted.