Quotes from Troy Aikman

Winning is hard. Repeating is harder.

You can't just can't simply replace head coaches and say, 'Now it's going to be better.'

When you start looking at guys like Brett Favre, for instance, and other great quarterbacks that have played - Peyton Manning - you say, 'Gosh, how will these guys be replaced?'

I dwell in the past.

If you do anything with the Cowboys, there's an interest in it. And there are people who constantly want to write books about our teams in the '90s. They want to interview me. I say, 'Look, I've done it a million times. I'm just not interested. What's left to tell?'

Football is a tough game. It's a tough game for tough people.

I know what a championship locker room looks like, what a championship team requires.

As a kid, I used to practice my signature, working on the way I wanted to sign my autograph.

As long as we're having contact and as long as there are collisions, there's going to be head injuries. What the long-term consequences are of that, we're beginning to learn, and that definitely will have an impact on the game as we know it.

Working with someone who's got your best interest at heart can make all the difference.

I was 22 my rookie year.

When I work a Cowboys game, my social media will blow up with, 'Hey, don't forget who you played for,' or, 'You traitor.'

Years ago, the NFL influenced what happened in college. It's the other way around now.

I've always known football.

It's not important to me that everyone knows everything about me or that I reveal all that I am or have.

The year we went to our first Super Bowl in 1992, we were the youngest team in football. We played in the Super Bowl against a team that had a wealth of playoff experience and Super Bowl experience, and we dominated that football game.

I don't want to be the poster boy for head injury. I shouldn't be the poster boy for head injury. I have really tried to distance myself from that.

I have often said social media is a race to the bottom.

My father was not a man you wanted to mess with.

I do not have a son; if I had a son, I wouldn't necessarily discourage him from playing football, but I don't know that I would encourage him to play, either.

I have an idea of marriage as being a sharing type of deal.

I believe - and this is my opinion - that at some point, football is not going to be the No. 1 sport. You talk about the ebbs and flows of what's popular and what's not. At some point, the TV ratings are not going to be there.

I'm not a guy who needs the spotlight. It's not something I have to have. I'm content to sit at home.

If you're healthy and you're told that you're capable of playing and the medical staff signs off on it, to me, you play because that's what you are paid to do.