Quotes from Jim Kelly

Ultimately, one of the best decisions I ever made was when I became a Buffalo Bill.

I didn't play JV because I went straight to varsity and started as a 10th grader - that was back in the day when you could not play varsity as a ninth grader. I went right from playing junior high football to varsity.

Number one is my faith, number two my family, number three is my friends, and number four, my fans.

I've been through so much. I just live each day, and whatever happens, happens. I've lived a very good life. My life has definitely changed, but the attitude is still the same.

Anybody who has cancer, they take it one day at a time.

When I retired from the NFL, my son was born on my birthday two weeks later, which is Valentine's Day. Imagine having a son born on your birthday.

Science...how beautiful science was - that it was one of the proofs of God's presence. All that order out of chaos.

That was the one moment he would always remember. The unhappiest moment of a happy childhood. The empty desolation of being on the wrong side of that sheet of ice, in the cold sterile water, while the fire burnt at the farm and the smell of Christmas food seeped out of the kitchen. And above him always the criss-crossed pattern of his own skates.

Policework is like having ringside seats to the greatest show on Earth! (Ringling Bro's ref.)

The cellar, uncorked like a buried bottle, gave off the stale breath of the years.

He leant back to stare heavenwards, gently fingering the swollen skin around his black eye. But the river stank. Reduced by the heat like a good soup, it was sixty per cent ducks' piss with a hint of incontinent rat.