“When I grew up, I had everything you could ask for, and I kind of didn...” — Chris Long Quote

“When I grew up, I had everything you could ask for, and I kind of didn't appreciate it. Because it was a given for me. Everybody that grew up in my neighborhood was going to have an opportunity to go to college. I took that for granted. I always regret that.”

“Any football player will tell you that in July you get this dark cloud over you if you know camp's coming.”

“It's a team game, but at the end of the day, you gotta be happy, and you gotta enjoy playing football every day.”

“Everybody doesn't have to get every joke. People really appreciate not being condescended to.”

“I had girlfriends who really irritated me by their devotion to the Beatles. I didn't begrudge them their interest, and there were songs like 'Hey Jude' that I could appreciate. But they didn't seem to be essential to the kind of nourishment that I craved.”

“It was with 9/11 that I came to fully appreciate and embrace NPR's irreplaceability as a sanity preserver, its unique virtues as first responder on the burning scene.”