If you are a professional player and you are playing in the top professional league, you are sorted financially, which is good.

Hey, I think it’s easy for guys to hit .300 and stay in the big leagues. Hit .200 and try to stick around as long as I did; I think it’s a much greater accomplishment. That’s hard.

The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player.

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.

Deflation isn’t good, and inflation is easier to cure than deflation.

Playing in MLS was a great experience. It has boosted my confidence and I feel I have matured as a player.

The only thing wrong with the NBA – or any other professional sport, for that matter – is a wild epidemic of Dumbness and overweening Greed. There is no Mystery about it, and no need to change any rules.

Nothing surprises me anymore in the NFL.

Money’s important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don’t have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.

People clinging to job security, savings, retirement plans, and other relics will be the ones financially-ravaged from 2010-2020, the most volatile world-changing decade in history.

What we have to find is the right level of regulation of our financial system so that it has the incentive to invest in things, but at the same time, it is sufficiently regulated so it can’t get in the kind of trouble that we have seen in the past and we have seen recently.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we’ve got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.

I know the blessing of having a dad who played 16 years in the league. That experience, and seeing him as an example, let me know that it’s possible. It’s not easy, but it’s possible.

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

In my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it is conducted.

Football is big business – you can’t get away from it. But you have to separate that side from the playing.

Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibilities. Everybody struggles in different ways.

I find the difference, for me, between having no money and having quite a bit is that the bills get bigger. And that’s it. The lifestyle doesn’t change.

Until we have comprehensive financial education, we’ll never see the end of our booms and busts.

Well, yeah, people are working in our country. You know what? They’re working two and three jobs, and in our America, people should not have to work more than one job to be able to put food on the table and have a roof over their head.