Jim Kelly

“I've always been good at refocusing my attention away from something that was bringing me down.”

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

“Where my cancer was, if it moves just a tiny bit... towards the area where there's no return, it stays, then there's no turning back.”

“I cried when I was drafted by Buffalo... You can't be a great quarterback in snow and 30 mile-an-hour wind.”

“Make a difference today for someone who's fighting for their tomorrow.”

“You need to be able to sit down and talk to your children.”

“My idol was Terry Bradshaw, but my role model was my father because I saw how much he worked and how much he focused on his trade. I was brought up the right way.”

“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.”

“When I decided to become a Christian and decided to change my life and just totally quit screwing up, it was like, 'Wow, why didn't I do this before?' No hiding anything. I just felt so much better, not only about myself, but my future, my family. It was awesome, and it didn't take me long to realize that.”

“I started out real young as a tight end, but I was never getting the football. I knew when I played basketball, I loved to have control of the ball. When I played baseball, I was a pitcher. I always wanted to be the guy throwing the passes and making a difference, I guess.”

“What I love about elk hunting is its similarities to turkey hunting. When you call to a bull elk, and it comes in ripping things apart and sounding like a herd of buffalo coming at you, it's exciting!”

“I played football ever since I was a little boy. Coming from a family of six boys, I guess we learned the game of football from a very young age.”