Quotes from Troy Aikman

I will always root for the Sooners.

I'll never forget when I was 12 years old. I couldn't wait until the day I was 16 and could drive a car. I thought that'd be the end of life's problems. I mean, you can drive! What is there left? And then I turned 16 and realized there were still problems.

I think it's nice to win awards, but my goal is not to win the Heisman: it's to get to the Rose Bowl.

I have been playing this game since I was 7 years old, and to all of a sudden recognize that you're not going to do it anymore is hard.

No matter what happens for the rest of my career, at least I can say I took my team to a Super Bowl, and I was able to win.

Not long ago, every time I did a picture shoot for a magazine, the photographer would ask me to show up wearing jeans and cowboy boots. They seemed to think I was a hillbilly. Now it's different. Now they're not quite sure what to make of me. And I show up wearing whatever I want.

I think when the cameras are on him is when Coach Switzer is at his best.

I'm looking forward to being a supporter of the Dallas Cowboys. I want to watch them win another Super Bowl.

At one time, watching football was an event. Monday Night Football was a big event.

When you stand and talk about player safety, and then, at the same time, you want to extend the season two more games, there's a contradiction in there.

A lot of coaches and players get so tunnel-visioned that when they do have some time off, they spend it concentrating on the game.

The thing I've always liked about the playoffs is the finality of it and knowing there's so much importance on every play.

I don't try to please anybody. I try to win.

I'm happy to do some endorsements if I believe in the product. You're only in this game a short time, and you want to collect the money while you can.

I wish there was a switch that I could flip, where no one knows me. And then, when I'm ready to make a splash, I'd flip the switch and say, 'Hey, I'm ready now.' Unfortunately, that doesn't happen.

As the equipment has gotten better - and it's gotten better in an attempt to try to protect the player more - then the equipment becomes used more as a weapon.

They portray me as a hick just because I enjoy some of the things people in Oklahoma like. I think people expect me to come out wearing my boots and spurs.

As long as we're wearing helmets and shoulder pads - there's collisions between these big, physical, fast guys - head injuries are going to be a part of it.

I think I'm a harder critic on myself than anybody is. I think I judge myself harder than any of the coaches do.

Some coaches don't want their players to be the stars. They want their systems to be the stars.

I believe success is achieved by acquiring and developing talented, respected, and credible individuals, none of which applies to Skip Bayless.

Whenever anybody has talked about concussions, they immediately talk about me and Steve Young.

I'm not an open person. Something's really got to be troubling me to have heart to heart talks with anybody.

I don't understand why guys want to be controversial and in the press all the time. It's just not my nature.