A biography for Troy Aikmanhasn’t been written yet.
“If you do anything with the Cowboys, there's an interest in it. And there are people who constantly want to write books about our teams in the '90s. They want to interview me. I say, 'Look, I've done it a million times. I'm just not interested. What's left to tell?'”
“Most of the pressure, if not all, is self-imposed.”
“The year we went to our first Super Bowl in 1992, we were the youngest team in football. We played in the Super Bowl against a team that had a wealth of playoff experience and Super Bowl experience, and we dominated that football game.”
“Years ago, the NFL influenced what happened in college. It's the other way around now.”
“If you're healthy and you're told that you're capable of playing and the medical staff signs off on it, to me, you play because that's what you are paid to do.”
“I'm not an open person. Something's really got to be troubling me to have heart to heart talks with anybody.”
“I think when the cameras are on him is when Coach Switzer is at his best.”
“It's who you get to share life with, not the actual experiences, that makes living so worthwhile.”
“A lot of people believe that I retired from the game of football because of concussions - that is not accurate. I really retired primarily because of a degenerative back condition that I had.”
“I will always root for the Sooners.”
“I had two concussions that were of major concern, what I would term very significant. As far as head injury goes, I would say all of the others were pretty minor and inconsequential.”
“My father was not a man you wanted to mess with.”
“You get down on yourself. You get disappointed in yourself. I expect more out of myself. As far as losing confidence as far as what I can do, that won't ever happen.”
“I'll never forget when I was 12 years old. I couldn't wait until the day I was 16 and could drive a car. I thought that'd be the end of life's problems. I mean, you can drive! What is there left? And then I turned 16 and realized there were still problems.”
“I wish there was a switch that I could flip, where no one knows me. And then, when I'm ready to make a splash, I'd flip the switch and say, 'Hey, I'm ready now.' Unfortunately, that doesn't happen.”
“No matter what happens for the rest of my career, at least I can say I took my team to a Super Bowl, and I was able to win.”
“I believe - and this is my opinion - that at some point, football is not going to be the No. 1 sport. You talk about the ebbs and flows of what's popular and what's not. At some point, the TV ratings are not going to be there.”
“I always have been comfortable with my opinions and how I feel about the play on the field, and how it should be done and how teams should go about playing the game.”
“As a former player, I have a real appreciation for a guy like Aaron Rodgers and how much time he puts into his craft and how good he is doing it.”
“As a player, you can't express ideas and opinions as easily as when you're doing a ballgame.”