LAWRENCE TAYLOR

And once you cross over into that world, no matter how strong you are, you have to pay the price.

Most of the games don't let you focus too much on the cheerleaders, but I've been watching these girls.

If they play dirty, then you play dirty.

I don't live that life anymore, it's as simple as that.

But every day I tell my story, and be comfortable with my story and be comfortable with what I've done, and what I did, and how I am today, it lessens the likelihood it will ever happen.

I guess another message I'd like to say with this book is no matter how many times you fail... I failed a lot of times trying to get clean, and never thought I'd get to this point.

People get hurt all the time in the game of football, it's part of what we do.

They would almost throw the cops in jail when they tried to arrest me.

In football, you can always maim a person if you wanted to.

Steroids are for guys who want to cheat opponents.

LT was just a wilder person. I don't go that route no more.

Football is not part of that lifestyle anymore.

If I'm going to break them, I'm going to break them both.

Hopefully the new breed of kids won't have to go through that hard lesson - my kids, my grandkids, my fans' kids, hopefully they won't have to go through it.

You can take a substance that works in your system, but then you take this over here that's not banned, and this over here that's not banned, but if you mix them together, you've got a banned substance in your system.

I played one game, and one game played me.

You can't tell them anything, but hopefully they will learn from the example and won't have to go through it.

And I tell ya, when I sit in that sound booth and started reading the script and starting to get into the character, man, it's an easy jump for me, because I understand what it's all about.

There were probably about five games in my career where everything was moving in slow motion and you could be out there all day, totally in the zone, and you don't even know where you are on the field, everything is just totally blocked out.

Taking them out of the picture, so to speak, what football really is, the savagery, the core root of football, it doesn't change. It really puts the real in football.

As players, we always have a way to get back at you.

First of all, a player has to know what is banned and what is not banned.

I had everything working my way, strong as a bull. And still I ignored the rules of the game of life.

The NFL, and I've played a lot of years for them, and they have a lot of restrictions on their players, they have restrictions on their licensees, they have restrictions on everything.

You try to stay within the rules for the sake of the game, but you can always turn up the intensity.