Life Quotes Quote by Vernon Davis, Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“My mother—with all the embarrassment and hurt that she caused me in my youth—ended up giving me the drive and the fire I needed to be more and to do more.”

“If you want to be great, you have to be a leader. You’ve got to listen to me, son. That’s what we brought you here to do, to be a leader. And you can do it.”

“I stood up to go shake hands with him and I don’t remember anything else. What I do recall is the crowd yelling and me crying, while everything seemed to be moving in slow motion.”

“I remember Peyton [Manning] called me as soon as I got out to Denver. He started the conversation by asking me, ‘When did you get in?’ We mainly just talked to get familiar with each other.”

“How easy it was to capitalize on a person’s own bent for self-destruction; how simple to nudge them into non-being, then to stand back and shrug and agree that it had been the inevitable result of a chaotic, catastrophic life.”

“Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to.”

““Let your life lightly dance on the edges of”

“..because never in my life have I ever been picked when there was another alternative.”

“Regrets are about decisions that you know you should have done different.”

“In life there are two things which are dependable. The pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of literature.”