To believe my eyes and not my ears.
What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
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What is the thing you are best at that nobody watching can see?
Craft & work
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How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success? Do you have a favourite failure?
Failure & regret
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What keeps you awake at night?
Daily life
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What is your favourite side project?
Craft & work
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What do you need to believe in order to get through the day?
Values & belief
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Who do you turn to when you need advice?
Relationships
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Football has taught me not to be led by obstructions and setbacks but instead to be led by dreams.
Retirement press conference, DenverBroncos.com, 7 March 2016 source ↗
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That further lessons await.
Paul Merson
English footballer and pundit
That materialistic things will not make you happy.
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View profile →I could process a lot of information and make really fast decisions.
That's a real challenge and a real issue. Reading the statistics, they had a ranking of quarterbacks, and the statistic was the percentage of a touchdown drive after an interception. To me, that is a telling statistic. The guys that have a high percentage are the guys that have short memories. They talk about having amnesia as a quarterback. You better move along from it. It is hard to say you forget about it, because you want to learn from it. You want to address it. You can't just say it never happened.
Recorded
Academy of Achievement interviewer, Academy of Achievement interview, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1 April 2007
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The thing that gives me peace of mind at night after a game, or after a season, is that I knew that I did everything that I could to get ready to play that game.
I’m proudest of some of the work that we’ve done off the field or things that I just take an enormous amount of pride in, ideally with a charity foundation called the Peyback Foundation.
Pressure is something that you feel only when you don’t know what you’re doing
I prayed a lot about it. I sought a lot of advice from my dad.
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