Edie Brickell Quotes

I was always the kid at school who thought it was a good idea to set off the fire alarm. And much as I'm aware that that's a trait which also propels other things which are good, I wish I could just pause and go, 'Is this really what you want to do?'

I believe without a single shadow of a doubt that it is necessary for young people to learn to make choices. Learning to make right choices is the only way they will survive in an increasingly frightening world.

I liked being a minor because you can't get into trouble. Now I just have to try and behave myself.

All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say 'No' and said 'Yes'.

There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.

When I was a kid, the people that used to push other people around, if someone whacked them, then they wouldn't be pushing people around again. But you can't really do that with adults.

As a man and as a sports figure, you have to set limits and set boundaries on what can and cannot happen. Once you do that, your family will start to respect you. 'OK, I get it, he's all about football and handling his business,' and that's what I've done. In the past, when I was a young man - a younger man - it was hard for me to say no. Since I'm older, wiser, I know how to handle people, know how to say no, know when something is right and something wrong. I use proper judgment.

I think temptation is ever present to become something that you think is more socially acceptable.

In Japan, we worry too much about what the other thinks.

My worst and best qualities are rashness: the good part of it is due to youth, which is, of course, why I'm not a great conductor.

Yeah, I kind of looked around and I can't understand why nobody else is speaking up. Later when I faced the backlash of speaking up, I realized why nobody did.

When we find ourselves in groups or with charismatic individuals, we might do things we wouldn't ordinarily do.

Sometimes the hardest decision is to say no to something, and I think when you're less confident or when you're younger, you say yes to everything, and as you get older, you realise you don't need to.

Being an 18 year-old football player, there are temptations. There are girls. There's going out to parties. There's doing this; there's doing that. There is drinking and blah, blah, blah. But at the end of the day it all comes down to maturity and what you have to do as a man to reach that next level. You have to be disciplined and make sacrifices.

When you're in a friend circle, you all kind of talk the same way. And it's hard to do on-the-fly radio edits of yourself.

I have been told too much - to talk less, to keep my opinions to myself, to not sound intelligent - all this was told to me so that I could fit in. But I never thought I fit in anyway. So if you don't fit in, at least stand out.

How can I tell somebody, 'Don't shoot that shot' when I'm out there chunking 'em?

I was in 'Fiesta,' but only because Aaliyah said she wanted me to do it that way.

We grow up, and we need to confront a society to be fit in.

When I first joined the army, I felt I had to be part of the alpha male culture. But I didn't.

I have that look like I'm going to tear your head off. As a younger guy, I think I had that look even more and had a reputation for being in your face a lot, but as I've gotten older I think I've filtered some of that out.

As you get older, you realize you're not that cool. You also realize the people you called posers are just people like you.

I understand that if someone's going to make me his idea of cool, I can't control that.

When I was younger, if I got into arguments, I'd become aggressive and violent, but I learnt the hard way that was only going to end negatively.

I was pretty immature, and some of it came from just wanting to have fun.