The team goals are always more important than individual goals. The ultimate goal is to win the Super Bowl and to do something special. The other little goals that you guys write up, those things take care of itself in the midst of playing football.
I was only allowed only to watch public television until I was 12 years old. I would come home from friends’s houses with a list of demands. ‘OK, We have all the wrong cereals. You guys are asleep on the job.’
The kids look at me, ‘Ah, you’re my hero.’ I want to teach those kids. ‘Hey listen, God is my hero. He died on the cross for my sins, and He’s the one. That’s how I wanna live – like Him – and I want you guys to do the same thing.
Now I know why guys like to hug girls. You guys just want to cop a feel. I can’t believe that I’ve fallen for it all these years!
I’ve come to admire our military kids more than you all will know, because you guys are heroes. And the only way your parents are able to serve is because you guys hold it down, and you do it with maturity beyond your years.
You guys are the best. I’ll see you in a couple of hours. I haven’t seen another human being in 13 hours and I’m running out of bottles for my urine. Later guys!
If a teacher goes, ‘Do you guys want an easy test?’ You’re going to say, ‘Heck, yeah.’ The less you’ve got to study, I’m going ace this test.
I feel for all the parents whose babies just keep waking up for years. My heart and back go out to you guys! You are my heroes, and I am not fit to walk in your shoes!
This is the problem with the leaking. This is actually a terrible thing. Let’s say I’m firing Michael Short today. The fact that you guys know about it before he does really upsets me as a human being and as a Roman Catholic.
People ask me about if, being a Republican, you guys want to cut everything and stop everything and not help people. I find that patently false.
When you’re not working with guys your own size and everyone is way bigger than you, guys aren’t afraid to run right through you – and not even hit you in dangerous places, but just the collision alone – and sometimes it would ring your bell.
I don’t know what you guys say, but at home, life is way different from baseball.
My favorite Duke player ever is Steve Wojciechowski. He called me one day congratulating me on my success thus far, and I was like,’I appreciate it, but man, please don’t congratulate me. I know when you guys start the season, you’re not just trying to be 10-10 or ACC champions, you’re trying to win it all.’
We called ourselves The Blanks because when we say who we are, everyone stares at us with a blank expression. But when we then say ‘Ted’s band from ‘Scrubs’ everyone goes, ‘Oh yeah, you guys.’
I’d like to say to all my fans out there, thanks for the support. And to all my doubters, thank you very much because you guys have also pushed me.
From 1997 when we came in, you guys and the public bought seven million more cars. You didn’t get rid of the second car, did you? So what is happening is the growth of cars on the motorway.
Well, a lot of people don’t know this about me, but I’m actually shy around people I don’t know. I would just say with my first concert, my first tour, I didn’t really talk onstage. I was like, ‘Thank you, I love you guys,’ or whatever. But now I’ve just kind of learned to work a crowd.
I’ll beat a bunch of good guys, and then I’ll get a ton of fans come up to me and go, ‘Do you think you can beat Conor McGregor?’ And I’m like, ‘Oh my God. You guys are disillusioned.’ They think because this man’s popular he’s good.
You probably don’t like me but, at only 24, you guys can only dream about having what I have at 24.
You guys are the best. I’ll see you in a couple of hours. I haven’t seen another human being in 13 hours and I’m running out of bottles for my urine. Later guys!
I don’t really like to drink. I don’t like the way alcohol feels or tastes. On occasion I’ll do it as a social thing, just to kind of go, ‘Hey! I did something with you guys!’
I walked two hours to an audition once and was so sweaty that someone said, ‘Oh, you guys from New Zealand don’t shower.’
My mom and I have always been very close since she did raise me as, like, a single mom. My friends and everyone I know are like, ‘Wow, you guys really have a really good relationship.’ She’s with me a lot of the time, so people find that kind of shocking.
I’ve had experiences where people say, ‘I hated jazz before I heard you guys!’ I’m like, ‘You didn’t hate jazz before you heard us; you hated the idea of jazz.’
If you’re truly in a band and you guys have been together for a long time, there’s a family bond that you have. In fact, I’ve talked about this with therapists, especially if you’re talking about a relationship, because when you’re with somebody, you’re going to your family, and she’s alone.
A guy friend and I went to California Pizza Kitchen, and a group of pretty girls came over to us and said, ‘You guys are gay, right?’
I love Jonathan Richman – I love a lot of his music, and the thing I really like about him is his attitude. He seems very happy, and the way he performs is like, ‘Don’t worry, everybody, just get into it. I’m just having fun; I like when you guys are having fun.’
This millennial generation… you guys seem so entitled.
What the bride should do is call guests who have young children and say: ‘I’d love to have the kids at the wedding, but we won’t have room. Would you get a baby sitter, and when we get back from our honeymoon, we’ll have you guys over?’
Well, I write a lot of poetry – that’s where it usually all starts. I definitely want to show you guys sides of me – love, loss, heartbreak – all of that good stuff!
I think in America, people have this, I think you guys have an obsession over the Royal family in a way that we don’t. Because I guess we just live with it.
One day my wife went and saw the accountant and said she’s pulling the plug. She said you guys are done. I said, how bad can it be? 10 grand? She said you’re not even close. It came out to almost $50,000 in alcohol for two months.
People always ask us, ‘When are you guys gonna do a movie? When are you gonna do a TV show?’ And to me, that feels like such a step backwards from where are.
When you guys are sleeping at night, I am out there working.
Straight up, I’m from Waldorf, Maryland, you guys. Let’s not forget that.
I kind of remember a friend of mine saying, like, you guys should make a rap record. You know, because we were already making punk records. We were a punk band. And I kind of thought, that’s crazy.
I think I have an innate inner confidence, one that I don’t feel I need to prove all the time. There will be times throughout your career when it does dip a little bit. Whether it’s from within, or something you guys have written.
You guys might not know who Yves Edwards is, if you don’t, shame on you, go do some research.
When I approach a band, I want to respect them and be respectful of their music. I’m not gonna say, ‘Look, you guys are real hot, so we’ll stick you in the movie, and we’ll get it in all these stores and all these stations.’ That isn’t right.
I remember Mick Jagger asking me ‘hey, how do you guys feel about us coming over here and taking all the play from you guys?’ I said ‘Well, in a way, you have eliminated all my competition.
Chemistry’s a word that people who make hires and decisions say, ‘Hey, you guys go out and work on your chemistry!’
I’m a pretty mellow guy, but I’ve got a fire burning inside, but you guys will probably never see that.
I’m trying to show people that I’m a person, and I deal with the same things as you guys, and I’m trying to make the best of it.
The only reason we make good role models is because you guys look up to athletes and we can influence you in positive ways. But the real role models should be your parents and teachers!
The last time I was in a Marshals’ office, they had a poster of ‘Justified’ up. I asked them, ‘Did you know I was coming by, so you put up a poster of the show?’ And they said, ‘Oh, we all love it… you guys make us look good.’ I thought, this is great. If they like it, we really did something here.
I think Brits probably feel that Americans are more like us than vice-versa, if that makes sense. Because we get everything American over here in Britain, but yet there are things which are staunchly English that you guys don’t have.
Nothing’s sacred anymore. Those girls and I got so close. They were painting me naked every day for months. It was kind of like going to a really bizarre sleepover. It’s what you guys imagine we do: One naked girl and seven pairs of hands all over her.
I know a lot of people try and set expectations for me. No offense to you guys, but I set my own expectations.
People would say, ‘Why are you guys in country music? You look like you’re in the Backstreet Boys.’ We took so much heat. We always said, ‘It’s not about hats and Wrangler Jeans. It’s about a state of mind. Country is in our souls.’
If everyone had a superpower, Kobe would be the Hulk. Kobe could take on a whole team by himself and he’s willing to do that. So, Kobe is like I’ll go 5-1, I don’t care. I’m still going to win. I put in more work than all five of you guys.
I’m trying to show people that I’m a person, and I deal with the same things as you guys, and I’m trying to make the best of it.
