Matthew McConaughey

I was incredibly sober during my peyote trip with a mountain lion

And I'd gone off on a sunrise walk with this gentleman and he was... slowly disseminating the payoti... when I got back down on the property, there was this, he had this mountain life in his cage... I get confident that me in this mountain lion are on the same frequency... The great thing about peyote had done the right way. No, I don't look back on that at all. I look back on that and go it. If anything, have you looked through the book there's times I've taken, what would be considered risk that absolutely paid off... I would say I was incredibly sober.

You have to out-prepare everyone so that you have the freedom to be yourself in the moment

That moment is when I said, okay, bullshit, from now I'm gonna over-prepare. I'm going to out-prepare people. ... You gotta prepare to be free. You gotta do the early work so you can play on the day. ... Be conservative early so that you can be liberal later.

The Washington football team should be renamed the Red Wolves

I'm pushing for the Washington Red Wolves. I think I just think it'd be cool that you got the teeth. You got all the fans in the stands, just making big howling noises. ... I just think that there are no professional football teams named after dogs and everybody loves dogs, right?

Dorks try to be everything to everybody, and you can't trust them

Being cool [is] being yourself and being cool with yourself and just not trying to be everything to everybody. ... I got no problem with nerds. I just don't like dorks. [A dork] tries to be everything to everybody, you can't really trust him. ... Give me an asshole before you give me a dork.

Relying on a cool car to make you cool actually makes you a dork

I traded [my truck] in for that red 300ZX with T-tops. How cool am I? I became a dork. I was relying on my car... letting my car do the work for me. ... I realized, dude, you out-foxed yourself. This fucking red sports car is just blue-balling you. So I went down and traded it back in for my truck.

The best way to bet is on intangibles like jet lag and personal tragedies

I love the intangibles. ... I like the fun when I think and believe that Miami's gonna be jet-lagged against San Fran and they come out slow... or Brett Favre's dad just passed away. Oh, he's playing for more than the game. He's going to be unconscious tonight. Boom. Well, you know, I love going with that.