I don’t want to wake up and be bored. That’s probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do. What better job is there than to play quarterback for an NFL team, and certainly one that I’ve been on for a long time and had success with? I don’t plan on giving it up any time soon.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego’s fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

Wherever the enemy wants to fight, we will follow him to the ends of the Earth. We’ll adapt, we’ll train, we’ll advise, we’ll mentor, and we’ll fight, and we’ll fight well.

As a part of the NFL, things change every year.

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.

I’m not that keen on the idea of being unconscious.

My job is to play quarterback, and I’m going to do that the best way I know how, because I owe that to my teammates regardless of who is out there on the field with me.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we’ve always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.

I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.

It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

I’ve never dropped anyone I believed in.

People are terrified of me, and I want them to be.

I don’t really care how the Patriots are perceived, truthfully. I really don’t. I really don’t. Look, if you’re a fan of our team, you root for us, you believe in our team, and you believe in what we’re trying to accomplish. If you’re not a fan of us, you have a different opinion.

I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

I have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. Everyone has this.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.

Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.

I wanted to write a book that talked about the emotions of children, which is the rainbow. We all have moods. We talk about being blue when we’re sad, and being yellow when we’re cowards, and when we’re mad, we’re red.

In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you’re going to be 20 years from now is how well you’re doing in your education system.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

I hate going to the gym and doing it the old-fashioned way. I hate anything that’s too straightforward, too routine, too familiar. I get bored really, really quickly.

For a long time I was scared I’d find out I was like my mother.

The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don’t have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven’t had that fear.

There are good examples of companies – Coca-Cola is one – that invested before there was a huge market in countries, and I think that ended up playing out to their benefit for decades to come.

I was the kid that was the 199th pick that never had the body for it. People didn’t think I’d play one year in the NFL, and now I’m going on my 17th year.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

As a producer, as a CEO of Hartbeat Productions, I am making deals to put my company in place to win, to put my staff to work so that while all this stuff is going on, they’re in the kitchen cooking. So it’s understanding the longevity of the entertainment business; you get out of it what you put into it.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy’s ranks.

All I do is work out. Oh my God! Half my life is spent in a gym somewhere, sweating.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

I always put myself out there. I’m not afraid to commit to something.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.

I was scared many times on Everest, but this is all part of the challenge. When I fell down a crevasse, it was pretty scary.

I have a wish. It as a fear as well – that in my end will be my beginning.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

I know I have a responsibility to the fans.

Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.

I have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we’re also starting to be really brave.

I’m always worried about everything. Like spiders.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.