A biography for Troy Aikmanhasn’t been written yet.
“Look, the only way for me to enjoy the game is to be consumed by it, to compete at a level where I know, at the end of that game, that my teammates and I did our absolute best.”
“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.”
“Football is a tough game. It's a tough game for tough people.”
“I probably would have played baseball if I had stayed in California... But I like Oklahoma better now. Football is bigger here. It's more exciting, anyway.”
“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.”
“I sometimes get frustrated with how important Dallas Cowboys' football is to people. It's extremely important to me, too, but football is what I do.”
“There are not many Chicagos, where people go out and support their sports teams, whether they are struggling or not.”
“In college, I was making a lot of presnap reads. It was much easier.”
“The thing I've always liked about the playoffs is the finality of it and knowing there's so much importance on every play.”
“When I work a Cowboys game, my social media will blow up with, 'Hey, don't forget who you played for,' or, 'You traitor.'”
“I didn't know anybody who went to Rangers games. Then, when they started winning and going to World Series, everybody's wearing Rangers hats.”
“I was 22 my rookie year.”
“Whenever anybody has talked about concussions, they immediately talk about me and Steve Young.”
“I have an idea of marriage as being a sharing type of deal.”
“As long as we're having contact and as long as there are collisions, there's going to be head injuries. What the long-term consequences are of that, we're beginning to learn, and that definitely will have an impact on the game as we know it.”
“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?'”
“It's not important to me that everyone knows everything about me or that I reveal all that I am or have.”
“I have a real hard time classifying anything as my biggest moment, my favorite color or whatever.”
“I dwell in the past.”
“A lot of coaches and players get so tunnel-visioned that when they do have some time off, they spend it concentrating on the game.”