I never had a black teacher or lecturer, I never once met a black British person who held any sort of professional or managerial role.

There is no employing class, no working class, no farming class. You may pigeonhole a man or woman as a farmer or a worker or a professional man or an employer or even a banker. But the son of the farmer will be a doctor or a worker or even a banker, and his daughter a teacher. The son of a worker will be an employer - or maybe president.

Writing is such a 'pretend' profession. Nobody is counting on you at all. You can't 'pretend' to be a lawyer or a teacher. It takes a lot of grit to continue.

I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Police and firefighters are great, but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves.

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.

It's not just the NFL. Every other league has a draft. It has been fundamental to the success of professional sports.

At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports.

The two major things that changed the makeup of all professional sports are money generated by television and courts that players went to in order to win their freedom as free agents.

I played professional level sports. When you're playing for money, it's a whole other level.

If I had a personal wish for the new ideas in this new book it would be that every parent, every counselor, every teacher, every professor, every sports coach that deals with young people would understand the three circle concept.

I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.

Professional sports are something they can't control.

Professional sports is a business.

I'm thrilled, I'm grateful, I'm blessed. I played for the world's greatest professional sports team in history. Once a Dallas Cowboy, always a Dallas Cowboy.

Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.

Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.

Deion Sanders played two sports, and Bo Jackson played two sports. I'm not athletic enough to do two sports, but I think I'm good enough to do two professions and do them pretty well at a high level.

First of all the name, and the color purple, I think those two things distinguish the Vikings as much as anything. You go anywhere in the country and say 'Vikings,' they know exactly where you are. You say 'Cardinals,' well, Cardinals who? There are a dozen Cardinals teams in the country in professional and amateur sports.

Professional sports is a monster. It's not even real life. It's one of the few things in life, the economy goes bad, you still get your money.