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Troy Aikman

Profession : Athlete

Birth : November 21, 1966

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

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My 21st birthday was probably the worst day of my life.

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I always play every game in my mind before it begins. A lot of times in a game, a play will happen, and it will feel like deja vu, like I've seen the play happen before in my mind.

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I'm not here to propel myself into the limelight. I'm here to win a football game. If I am propelled into the limelight, I want it to be because of what I do on the football field, not because of some grand marketing strategy.

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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.

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Most people assume you change with success.

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I dwell in the past.

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

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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.

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

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In college, I was making a lot of presnap reads. It was much easier.

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

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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?'

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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.

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Winning is hard. Repeating is harder.

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It doesn't matter how tough you are. It doesn't matter how smart you are or what a great leader you are. None of that stuff matters if you can't put the ball where you have to put it.

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I've lived in Texas now longer than anywhere and then California and then Oklahoma, but yet Oklahoma is what I consider home.

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Hey, I'm big-boned.

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The one thing about being an athlete, say you are struggling with throwing a comeback route, well, then you go out and practice it. You throw it 100 times a day, and you get better at it, and you see those improvements pretty rapidly.

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There are not many Chicagos, where people go out and support their sports teams, whether they are struggling or not.

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