Born on November 20th

"The thing I most connect with is the idea of not giving up. And that's a thing I have in my own life. You have to trust your instincts and keep trying."

"I've been watching 'Californication' since the pilot aired and had always thought that it would be so much fun to guest star on."

"So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK."

"I sang a lot in college - I was in a choral group in college. But, then, when I moved to New York, I really just concentrated on acting."

"The last season of 'Rescue Me' is going to be very sort of half and half: it's how you think 'Rescue Me' would end versus something very outside the box. And, they do it in this sort of perfect way - it's only nine episodes, you know. Very stream-lined."

"I would love do a guest spot on 'Castle' because Nathan Fillion is so dreamy, and he and I are friends. And I think we could have a lot of fun."

"I would kill to be on 'Dexter,' and I would double kill to be on 'True Blood.' I would pay them to let me come be a vampire or a vampire victim. No joke!"

"I think that in any role you have, whether TV or film, it's hard to do comedy and drama within one story."

"I do not know a lot about football. I guess I'm a Patriots fan because I'm from Boston? But I'm getting to know a lot more about it, and I'm finding it fascinating."

"Even though the third season of 'Necessary Roughness' was only ten episodes, they were an extremely intense bunch of episodes, especially toward the finale."

"Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be."

"I suffer from an amazing amount of insecurities, and I'm grateful that my body image, it's normally not something I pay attention to."

"No matter what's behind us in the rearview mirror, it's always about what's next."

"Always remember, the goals that we have achieved pale in comparison to the daily commitments it took to get there."

"I'm not perfect. I don't claim to be perfect. So, when people point out I'm imperfect, so what? That's just who I am."

"The key to coaching is love. It's not knowledge; it's not discipline. If you love 'em, you can discipline them. If you love 'em, you can yell at them and laugh about it later."

"Continue to do common things in an uncommon way. Continue to be 'all in.' Continue to apply 'best is the standard.' Continue to be a person of excellence in everything you do."

"We're all going to experience death and failure and setbacks and disappointments and cancer and, you know, it's a really difficult world. And for me, God has always - in my relationship with Christ - He's given me hope and peace."

"A lot of these things in this world were only a dream for Martin Luther King. Not a one-term, but a two-term African-American president. And this is a terrible country? That was a dream for Martin Luther King."

"No, we don't control who our parents are. We don't control what color we are. We don't control what home we are born into. But we control our attitude. We control our work ethic. We control our drive and our commitment."

"God creates us to compete. He creates us to win. It matters. But you've got no chance if you don't do your best."

"I am who I am. At the end of the day, you've got to be who you are."

"In recruiting, you talk about anything and everything a recruit wants to talk about that seems relevant."

"You better have an anchor in life. It doesn't matter if you're a Division I head football coach or Joe Schmo from Okemoh. Bad things happen. If you're not anchored, you're going to be washed away."

"My father figures were my coaches."

"I just made a decision a long time ago: I'm not going to be defined by a scoreboard."

"I've never seen myself as a second-class citizen."

"I didn't get into coaching to make money. I got into this for the coaching and teaching part."

"I've never failed at anything in my life."

"A football team is really just a reflection of society. You've got 118, 120 guys on the team, you got a little bit of everything."