“I don't believe in beating people up just for the sake of grabbing a h...” — Howie Long Quote

“I don't believe in beating people up just for the sake of grabbing a headline.”

“I was sick a lot, and doctors told my grandmother I'd never grow up to be big and strong. Isn't that ironic?”

“I was a street kid, but that meant hopping a ride on the back of the MTA down to Revere Beach - that's the beach that's made out of concrete - or sneaking into the Boston Garden to watch the Celtics or the Bruins.”

“Come 2012, I am not going to be voting for someone based on who I think would be the most fun to hang out and have a beer with. I am going to be voting for the person that I think will have the best chance of beating President Obama and gaining votes from independents.”

“I think the rapping came from being around your friends in school, beating on the desks with pencils and making beats and freestyling about the teacher. And it was jokes, jokes, jokes, until I was freestyling in such a good way that it became serious.”