Playing quarterback, you rely on everybody. Everybody impacts you.

When I watch good friends play, it's almost worse when you're watching, because you have zero impact: you have zero hand in what's going on. When I'm playing, you don't have that because I'm involved in it. I have some kind of say in what's going on.

I think the quarterback position, moreso than in all of sports, no other position compares - you rely on so many people to do your job.

You have to prove yourself year in and year out, and if you can't get the job done, every team is going to go and try and find somebody else that can.

I went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward Shakespeare. He was a very influential figure in my childhood - I acted in high school a few times, but Mr. Shakespeare got me to lead in 'The Crucible.' I played John Proctor.

Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me.

Americans want jobs. They want affordable health insurance. They want an education.

The majority of the new jobs being created require higher skills, more education.